Decoration library
Print, stitch, and wash are how a blank becomes your garment — and every method has a fabric it loves, a run size it suits, and a place it fails. These are the techniques we run in-house, explained plainly, so you can walk into a quote knowing what to ask for.
Find your method
Pick what you're putting on the garment and roughly how many pieces — the methods that fit stay lit. This is guidance, not gatekeeping: every method below runs from 30 pieces.
Ink pushed through a mesh stencil, one screen per color. The setup cost is fixed, so it gets cheaper per piece as the run grows — and the ink bonds hard, which is why it is the workhorse for bold graphics at volume.
Best at: bold graphics, larger runs, cotton and blends
Artwork printed onto film, then heat-pressed onto the garment. Sharp, full-color, and viable at small quantities — but it sits on the surface, so placement matters more than with inks that soak in.
Best at: full-color art, small runs, chest and pocket hits
Dye turned to gas under heat, bonding into the fiber itself. There is no layer to crack or peel, color runs edge to edge, and it moves with stretch — but it needs a polyester-dominant fabric to take.
Best at: all-over prints, jerseys, performance fabric
The mark is stitched, not printed, so it carries texture and reads premium at arm's length. It outlasts the garment, which is why crests and left-chest logos default to it.
Best at: logos, crests, caps, heavier fabrics
Screen printing with an additive that expands under heat, raising the print off the fabric into a soft 3D relief. The bold, dimensional look behind most Y2K-inspired graphics.
Best at: statement graphics on fleece and heavier tees
Set by hand, stone by stone. Slow by design — this is embellishment for pieces where the labor is the point, not a shortcut for volume runs.
Best at: limited statement pieces, performance-wear accents
The finished garment is washed with pumice stones — soaked in a bleaching agent for acid wash, plain for stone wash — so the abrasion pattern is genuinely unique on every piece. Real vintage character, not a printed imitation of it.
Best at: vintage-character fleece and tees, garment by garment
Controlled fading that takes the fabric's color down the way years of wear would, without the years. Softer than acid wash — worn-in rather than beaten-up.
Best at: that soft lived-in look, straight off the line
How to choose
A one-color logo, a photographic print, and a crest each point to a different method before anything else is decided. The artwork usually makes the first cut for you.
Screen printing rewards volume because its setup cost spreads across the run. DTF and embroidery hold their price at small quantities. Same artwork, different best answer at 30 pieces versus 500.
Sublimation needs polyester. Heavy embroidery wants a fabric with body. Washes behave differently on fleece than on jersey. Whatever the method, it has to survive on the fabric you chose.
You don't need to know the method. Send the art and the garment, and we'll tell you which technique fits it, at your quantity, before you commit anything.
Embroidery and sublimation. Embroidery is stitched into the garment, and sublimation dyes the fiber itself, so neither has a surface layer to crack or peel. Screen printing is close behind on volume runs.
Yes — it's common. An embroidered crest, sublimated numbers, and a screen-printed sponsor mark can all sit on one piece. We map the methods to the artwork before production.
The finished garment is tumbled with pumice stones soaked in a bleaching agent, which strips color where the stones strike. Every piece comes out slightly different — that's the appeal, and it's done garment by garment, not printed on.
Vector files (AI, EPS, SVG, or a clean PDF) are ideal, but not required — send whatever you have, even a sketch or a photo, and we prepare the production artwork with you.
No. The minimum stays 30 pieces per design whatever the decoration. Embellishment affects the per-piece price, not the minimum — the exact number comes with your quote.
You bring the design and the garment; we bring the honest answer on what survives, at your quantity, on your fabric. Quotes within 24 hours.
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