Making your own t-shirts?

Dave

How would I go about this?

PurpleFistMixer

D'you mean just getting plain tshirts and then printing stuff on them, or the actual... sewing together?

Dave

I mean printing them.

PurpleFistMixer

Well, you need a printer, I'm assuming you already have a computer, and special t-shirt printing paper. You can probably buy it in normal computer-supply shops. You don't need special ink. Basically, you get the picture you want on the tshirt, print it (I do test prints on normal paper to make sure it's the right size, etcetera, printing paper is valuable) -make sure it's been flipped horizontally or else any writing'll be backwards. Then, it'll tell you the specifics on the actual packet of paper, but you iron it on, I think you're supposed to put something over the back when ironing or something, let cool, and the first time you wash it, it should be with cold water.

Hope that helps...

adnans

slick. fashion forum

alright it gets a bit expensive if you want every colour in the world. get the basics, red, yellow, blue, white, black (lots of black and white) and a tub of textile medium (transparent gluey like substance that you mix half & half with the acrylic paints) most good art shops will have it. get a decent roller and a good art knife for cutting out the patterns. the tshirt vary from place to place, but get them cheap and in large quantities. found some in the top shop in jervis for a bargain. the easy part over.

start with letters or a one layer stencil first. work on the pattern in Illustrator or some vector based program. print it out on A4 in outlines and then laminate it (you can re-use stencils). start cutting and mind the islands, ie bits that fall off. there is a bunch of stencil fonts like Army etc that have no islands at all.

after you got your laminated stencil cut out, place it on the tshirt (there's a can of something that you can get that keeps the stencil stuck to the tee), mix the paint half & half with the textile medium and use the roller to apply the colour. peel away slowly, and let it dry. once done, iron the fucker and be cool. all your friends will want one and you will own the race track.

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good luck

adnans

ferdi

looking good

i just get a plain tshirt, draw or trace(using a design on a page, small sheet of glass, a strong table lamp and a 5b pencil) something on it with tshirt markers and the iron - nice and totally original.

more people should do this if they dont want to go around in the usual boring sheit and not resort to buying off internet