The Ink Kitchen

There is a very funny Vice posting supposing what fashion might be like for us all as we age into geezers and geezettes – American Apparel, Champion, etc for the future, sort of…

I found the best scientific explanation of the white gold vs blue black dress debate which has been raging on social media on the Wired Magazine site. It mainly has to do with the context and adjustments your eyes make. This is just an extreme case where it falls right on the boundary of interpretation. If…

Fibrillation is defined as “the rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart.” I’m talking about that type of fibrillation in this post, but many a screenprinter has felt like they are going to have a heart attack over the type of fibrillation that happens to t-shirts. Fibrillation in screenprinting is when…

HanesBrands is purchasing Knights Apparel, a company which mostly serves the college bookstore market. It sounds like a good deal for HanesBrands and I can’t see how it will have any effect on the average screen printer or embroidery company. You can read about it in the Wall Street Journal or here is the HanesBrands press release…

There are a wide variety of types of canvas bags out there in the world. They are all waiting to be decorated by the screenprinter. There are specifications of all the fabrics in terms of weight, weave, etc. In my many years of buying canvas totes and even working directly with companies that are manufacturing…

I’ve been looking closely at shirts for 43 years (I just posted about that.) Someone may say a design is cute, interesting, funny, awesome or any positive attribute and the first thing I see instead is that it is printed (in order of how often it occurs) out of registration, too low, with too much…

Menuda noticia, la compañía Comfort Colors de Vermont es hoy parte del imperio Gildan. Barry Chouinard, emprendedor y personaje peculiar, dueño de la compañía será capaz de comprar un poco más  de sidra de manzana esta semana después de vender Comfort Colors por 100 millones de dólares al gigante Gildam.  consta que que Gildan perdió más  de…

Last year saw the unfortunate death of Robin Williams. A friend sent this photo of him to me. In the photo Robin Williams is wearing a shirt that we printed from a line we sold at the time, Ken Brown Designs. Below are a couple more celebrity sightings, both of shirts we print for my pal…

Holy Cow, Vermont company Comfort Color is now part of the Gildan empire. Entrepreneur and genuine character Barry Chouinard (owner of Comfort Colors) should be able to buy a little more apple cider this week after selling his company for $100 million to industry giant Gildan. Reported as well was that Gildan lost over $40…

It isn’t often that our first commercial screenprinting jobs are documented. Usually we get into this business in a sort sideways move. We help somebody out or make shirts for ourselves and never really think it will turn into a business. Somehow lo and behold eventually we end up finding ourselves in the business. I…