Most of us aren’t going trashless like Lauren Singer. However, she is pushing the envelope and trying to do something positive. Plus she is a non-UK person using the word “tosser”, so she can’t be a wanker. Her blog Trash is for Tossers is pretty interesting. In our industry I know that many folks are…
Yesterday the Google Doodle was by Corita who would have been 96 years old. Sister Corita Kent was a silkscreening nun. You can read a bit about her here. Sister Corita is famous for her “love” USPS stamp and famous in these parts (Boston) for her painting on a huge prominent gas tank, “Rainbow Swash.”…
Apparently according to the piece “Ad-free social network Ello turns to branded t-shirts for revenue” this could be the next wave of capital generation. The report says that Ello is only making money from t-shirts, not from use of their app. I hope the t-shirts are better than the app. I know I’m one of…
Ask most folks that aren’t a white dude and you’ll find that we are not exactly the perfect “Land of the Free” in the old US of A. However, we can at least do just about any t-shirts we want. Not so in China. Read about this poor dude’s on-line shop that got closed down…
Incredible quilts from old metal t-shirts. I’ve seen quilts done before but nothing even close to this creative. The Huff Post mentions the quilter’s “ability to turn “your grandmother’s sewing circle” into a celebration of vintage tattoos, the occult and motorcycle gangs. Blending, as he puts it, B-movie horror film style with the delicate intricacy…
Quick post today. I have many inquiries lately about how to print a garment dyed shirt. Test the particular shirt and color, but many of them print well with discharge ink and that accentuates the softness of the shirts. Most colors most of the time print well with any good cotton white ink. If you…
Tom and I visited the Hirsch showroom and office in NC. We received some great hospitality and we got to see some of the best equipment available for shirt decoration: Kornit Direct to Garment, MHM Automatic Textile Press, Tajima Embroidery, and Seit Lasers. Ostensibly it was to show some folks that were new to the…
On Wednesday Tom touched on the magical new Rutland automatic ink color matching dispenser. I agree with Tom wholeheartedly that it is pretty rad. Other highlights of our “field trip” to the Rutland Group were meeting the new CEO Jeff Leone and checking out the color proofing area. Jeff is a very smart guy that…
In this day and age, it is not really a good excuse to plead ignorance about where your shirts are made. There is usually some information on the label, and then there is this thing called “the internet” where you can do either a little or a lot of research. In the coming weeks we’ll…
Guest Post by our good pal Brett Bowden of Printed Threads in Tejas. A few extra comments were added by the IK. The trend of foil has lasted longer than any of us thought it would. We added foil application to our toolbox at some point when one of our clients approached with an order…
