That shirt was made a few years ago by Georgia Tech. It is called the smart shirt, and is for use on the battlefield to diagnose where a wound occurred. It was the start of what will be coming to the marketplace sooner than we could have imagined, computerized clothing. Google is ramping up their…
No, I’m not talking about too many hats in the literal sense, i.e.: we’ve got 3 days to embroider 10,000 caps with only 12 embroidery heads to work with. Been there, done that. Here I am talking figuratively about wearing too many hats and if you are anything like me you are in fact wearing too…
Besides seeing rocking shows by the Pixies, TV on the Radio, St. Vincent and Ben Harper at Boston Calling this weekend, we also saw how interested people still are in screenprinting. They were printing pennants on site, and a long line indicated just how interested folks were in screenprinting. Most of our thoughts right now…
We recently sent our Rapid Tag label press to the manufacturer, ASPE, for an extensive repair/maintenance/retrofit. They promised that the machine would look and perform like new, but even better as they would be upgrading this first generation machine. When the press arrived I was not dissapointed…
When I think men’s fashion I don’t really think Louis CK. And yet here he is, the subject of a GQ article about men’s fashion trends. Louis CK wore his t-shirt tucked in during his recent appearance hosting Saturday Night Live. And although GQ is calling for the return of the tucked-in tee this season, a…
This week The New York Times covered on the front page the relatively recent phenomenon of sports teams giving everybody that comes in the door a free t-shirt of the same color. It basically puts the whole crowd in uniform. The Winnipeg Jets were the first team to do this type of thing when 20 years…
At Motion Textile we are working on implementing legit carts for job staging (we currently use these flat shelf utility carts which are awesome for garment staging but not so much for job staging). If you incorporate job staging (I’ll define this as the collection of screens, inks, squeegees and flood bars per production specifications in advance of a scheduled print…
I cannot understand how somebody could be so stupid as to put out a shirt to the general public as the Under Amour company did this week (see below.) Call a spade a spade, this was a moronic move. Under Armour removed the shirt, but somehow I wish we could sentence those responsible to a…
The New York Times today had an article about bootleg shirts adding to fan frenzy about the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team. Honestly I think it is a good idea. So many bands that allowed bootleg recordings actually boosted their sales of recording, and I think this is an analogous situation. Let a little creativity and…
If you embroider a waterproof jacket like you embroider any old thing, it won’t be waterproof any longer. Water will wick through the threads and the holes you have made. There are products you can buy to waterproof the jacket after you are done with the embroidery. We buy ours from KYS embroidery supplies but I imagine…
