BUILT BY THE PEOPLE
LOCKED OUT OF THE INDUSTRY.
RawBales is a Southern California-based textile sourcing operation. We move one product — 100% raw credentials, untouched and ungraded — from nonprofit donation routes into the hands of buyers who can't take a 40,000 lb truckload at a time.
The minimum was the wall.
Rag houses move in full truckloads. That's how the industry was built and that's how it runs. If you're a small thrift reseller, a boutique picker, or an independent operator running pop-ups and online sales, you've been priced out of source pricing on raw credentials. The only option was a middleman markup or pre-sorted scraps somebody else already picked through.
We aggregate the demand.
We pull from a SoCal-anchored sourcing network and pool small buyer demand into full truckloads. You order what you need — 1,000 lbs or 10,000 lbs — and we allocate from the next batched run. Rag house gets a full load. You get fractional access at near-source pricing. Nobody else does this at scale.
How we work with buyers.
Consistent Supply
Aggregated truckloads run on a predictable cadence. You build inventory plans without guessing at availability.
Fair Pricing
Direct margin pricing. No layered broker fees, no surprise accessorials hidden in the freight quote.
No Brokerage Games
We tell you the source, the pull date, and the timing. If we can't fill it cleanly, we say so and refund.