EMBROIDERY

Embroidery is the craft of decorating fibric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn. Designs can be set up for a flat stitch for most applications or a 3D puff design mostly used on hats.

VINYL

Heat Transfer vinyl, or HTV for short, is a specialty vinyl polymer that can be used on certain fabrics and materials to create designs and promotional products. It comes in a roll or sheet form with an adhesive backing so it can be cut, weeded, and placed on a substrate for heat application.

SCREEN

Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh apertures with the ink, and a reverse stroke the causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact. This causes the ink to wet the substrate and be pulled out of the mesh apertures as the screen springs back after the blade/squeegee has passed. One color is printed at a time, so several screens can be used to produce a multicolored image or design

(DTG) DIRECT TO GARMENT

DTG stands for Direct-to-Garment, and refers to a method for textile printing. Unlike other textile printing methods, such as heat transfer or dye sublimation, DTG printing process uses specialized ink in order to print directly onto the garment, using a DTG printer. The fabric fibers soak up the ink, and become part of the garment.

SEMI DYE

Partial Dye Sublimation is a process by which sublimation ink is printed onto a transfer paper. The paper is then transferred to an object or garment under the heat and pressure delivered by a commercial heat press. Sublimation only works on light colored garments made of polyester or given a polyester coating. When the heat and pressure are applied, the dye  on the transfer paper sublimates (becomes a gas), and is then absorbed into the polyester itself; the print is then apart of the garment/coating.