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Russinating

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I'm sick of the fact that when you want to buy a t-shirt nowadays you're presented with a whole range of crappy designs, including but not limited to random retro comic book/children's TV characters, which I think are supposed to be "funny" and "cool".

Anyway, I decided to buy a few t-shirts from Primarni to get some of my own designs printed. I was just wondering if anyone else does this and has any advice on what works/what doesn't, or wants to share any designs. I'll be using a shop which does them for £12.50 each ish, not the good old iron-on stuff.
 
I've made my own before;
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Yes it's those iron on crap BUT this ironed on crap shirt have been worn quite often and wash under delicate (and inverted) for a good handful of times now, still in good condition.

Cost me £6, £3 for the shirt, £3 for the print on + ink.
I have to say, I would pay a shop £12 if they can give me fruit of the loom quality shirt + soft print. My iron on crap goes feel abit 'papery' when I wear it if you know what I mean.
 
I've found that Primark are the worst culprits for having rubbish designs all over their T shirts. Now that it is almost winter they did not have many of those 3 packs of plain shirts left last week
 
Not bad Jones, like the 300 Chez :p. I know what you mean about the paper feel though, that's why I want to stay away from them.

At the moment I'm thinking a "Vote Lois [etc]" and a "I accidentally the whole [??]" t-shirt at the moment, then might play with some paint/more fractal designs.
 
The convenience of being able to order tees over the internet has totally been negated for me by the plasticy thick horrible iron on designs that most of them seem to have. The printed bits are just too thick and never follow the contours of the tee (I wear fairly skinny tees so I need some kind of print that folds and flows with the cotton if you get my drift, instead of being a giant block of solid rubber print). Ergo I'm forced to go shop for tees, which sucks because there's no choice on the highstreet.

Can anyone recommend a site that does more a fabric dye kind of print than one of those iron on blobs?.
 
I buy my shirts from ebay. All the ones I've bought have been printed on Fruit of the Loom shirts and have been really good quality prints. Try there, it's a lot cheaper than £12.50 a print.
 
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A stencil I cut myself, haven't yet put it on a T-shirt due to laziness, but its pretty easy to cut with a scalpel. I use a hybrid screen printing method, instead of making a screen the normal way I just use this stencil as the block.
 
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rghjones said:
I'm sick of the fact that when you want to buy a t-shirt nowadays you're presented with a whole range of crappy designs, including but not limited to random retro comic book/children's TV characters, which I think are supposed to be "funny" and "cool".

Anyway, I decided to buy a few t-shirts from Primarni to get some of my own designs printed. I was just wondering if anyone else does this and has any advice on what works/what doesn't, or wants to share any designs. I'll be using a shop which does them for £12.50 each ish, not the good old iron-on stuff.
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£12.50 each is far too expensive! you wont be making any profits with that! I myself are in a process of starting my t shirt company. U can google grimwear clothing

anyway tshirt forums has a lot of info about printing t shirts
 
Right, well *had* to go to Hobby Craft after this. Picked up three colours, some brushes and a knife etc for £10 odd. Anyway, just had a play and a doodle on one t-shirt:

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Wasn't as hard as I thought, might add to it later also (looks a little unbalanced). One question is, on the back of the paints it says to iron it in, but that's all about it does say. I assume just iron it in reverse to help seal the colours in?
 
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