String & Grommet Hang Tag

The String & Grommet Hang Tag is built for products that get picked up, tried on, and re-hung repeatedly before they sell — a reality that a simple hole-punched tag doesn’t always survive. We set a reinforced metal grommet into every hole, which spreads the load across a wider ring of metal instead of concentrating it on unsupported cardstock, so the tag resists tearing even after a customer pulls it on and off a hanger or garment several times during a fitting-room visit.

Every tag in this style ships pre-strung: we attach your choice of natural cotton twine, jute cord, grosgrain ribbon, or a thin elastic loop before the order leaves our facility, so your team’s only job is clipping or looping the finished tag onto the product. This is a meaningful time-savings for apparel brands doing their own packing at scale, where hand-stringing thousands of individual tags is a real labor cost most teams would rather not carry. Tell us your preferred string material and length and we’ll match it to your product and branding — jute for a rustic or workwear look, ribbon for a gift or boutique feel, elastic for a reusable swing-tag on reorderable items.

This is the style we recommend most often for apparel brands and any product line where the tag needs to survive real handling — not just sit untouched in a box. Sweaters, jackets, and structured bags in particular put more stress on a hang tag than a folded T-shirt does, because the tag typically hangs exposed rather than tucked into packaging. Boutiques carrying a mix of vendors also like this style because the reinforced grommet reads as a small quality signal on its own, independent of whatever’s printed on the tag face.

We print this tag on a 16pt coated cardstock, which takes up to four spot colors cleanly and holds a sharper printed edge than uncoated stock, useful if your artwork includes fine text, a barcode, or a detailed logo. The metal grommet itself is available in brass, silver, or black-oxide finishes to match your string color and overall packaging palette rather than defaulting to whatever’s cheapest to source. Because grommet-setting is a mechanical step layered onto standard printing and die-cutting, production runs on our normal two-week timeline with no extra die charge or setup delay — unlike foil or embossed styles, there’s no custom tooling required to add the grommet.

Order sizes start at our standard 500-unit minimum, and because pre-stringing is included rather than billed as an add-on, this style often ends up priced comparably to a plain printed tag once you account for the labor most brands would otherwise spend attaching string by hand. Send your logo, preferred string type, and a target quantity, and we’ll send a photo-real mockup showing the finished, strung tag within 24 to 48 hours.