Re: Generic jersey that's safe for heat-sublimation?

ok. if you have a favorite fitting anything - bra panties cane with
dog whatever
the local sewing shop has "pattern fabric" used to make patterns with.
take the favorite top. see where the parts are sewn together and lay
the "pattern fabric" on the parts
mark and cut.
now you have the pieces of your favorite top
you buy "coolmax" or better if its hot hot a mesh coolmax. Seattle
Fabrics has patterns that give yardage needed but I guess its 1.5
yards per top.
"coolmax" comes in white or whatever from Seattle Fabrics or Rose City
Textiles.
Sew the top(s) together with your mother's machine or by hand. snot a
big deal.

i don't know anything about the silk screen biz but poly is a tough
dye. Of the top of my head I guess the jerseys you see with Grateful
images or a dragon with IMA GOONA STICK IT IN YOUR
on the back are processed to take dye. fabrics without the IMA GOONA
on them may not be so processed.

Campmor's dayglo T's are 85% poly and 15% cotten (?) The cotten takes
the dye. Wal sold bright colors in poly witha bit of spandex or
something to take dye - that feels rubbery and is a less than hot
climate T fabric. That run was dyed in Lesotho where labor is cheap
and the EPA somewhat lax about pouring several extra thousand gallons
of used chemicals back into the ocean, chemicals necessary to get the
poly to "take" orange or yellow dye and come out bright.

Like the shop may take poly and say yeah yeah yeah we can do this and
yeah that and sure they will but the finished product may not be what
you had in mind when you wandered over there.

Prices on dyed poly are rather steep not only from dyeing costs but
the manufacturer and retailer determined you the buyer are a moron
with too much money.
Campmor is out of white men's duofold long and short sleeved
performance crews but you might find a white T in cotton and poly for
$10. Taking a white poly into the chosen silk screener for a try out
with something simple like SUCK ME OFF in black block letters could be
the cheapest way togo. You could stencil and paint your message not
dye or laundry marker. Paint's cheaper. Try the art house for
acrylics.
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