i don't know if this helps but I buy quite a few rags for my job, we can't stand lint, I buy 25 lb. boxes of rags from a local Paper/cleaning supply company. They evidently sell varying grades of rags, from crap to pretty good. Anyway, the company name here is Empire Paper Co.. I buy 25lb. lint free, white, cotton rags. They run $20 a box. I bought a box two years ago for the house and still have clean ones in the box and plenty of rags that I've washed. Interestingly, after 7 years of buying these rags I think they might be white prison jumpsuits and Salvation Army reject clothing. Anyway, no lint, white, cheap, hope I made sense.