tigersinlondon:

onecarefulowner:

tigersinlondon:

onecarefulowner
replied to your post “apparently heat-transfer paper is really cheap….. so i could…”

I’ve used that stuff before. Avoid the paper for dark fabrics if you want something wearable, as it transfers a sheet of white plastic as well as the colour. Stick to stuff for light fabric & it only transfers ink & setting agent.

ooh nice tip, thank you 🙂 i saw some stuff for light fabric for super cheap (like a couple of quid for 10 A4 sheets) on ebay so that should do!

No worries 🙂 Don’t forget to print your design backwards!

The dark-fabric stuff’s not really meant for big patches; I used a whole A4 sheet once on the front of a teeshirt, it was like wearing cardboard & it lifted off in places due to moisture very quickly. After just one night out most of it peeled right off! Ah well, that was all I needed it for anyway.

Have you looked at Spoonflower? All kinds of funky designs, or you can make your own…

does the light-fabric stuff wash?? like can it go in the wash (hand wash maybe?)

yeah only that’s an american site and it’s really expensive…

Hm…I’ve used this type of stuff (in fact last week we did a bunch of t-shirts this way for a play at my mums school) they really didn’t stay on very long and we had to glue down the pealing bits for the second night.

I’m sure there are a several brands of this stuff so some may better than others so definitely worth experimenting but i feel like you’d get better results looking into diy screen printing? (Also slightly more practical as you can make large frames for it as long as you have the space to do it so you wouldn’t have quite so much tessellation to do)

I’m thinking fabric+emulsion on frame method rather than the fancier thing with photo sensitive paper (but if your design is really complicated look into that – and other methods which I’m sure exist). Your initial outlay might be a bit more but cheaper thin fabric + emulsion + wood isn’t that bad for a probably much better result (the inks aren’t going to run you more than printer ink does even if you want really expensive ones and loads of colours but they are less useful for other things

You should also be able to find UK based people with industrial screen printing stuff or digital fabric printers that will print a design onto fabric for you for less than the US company (they aren’t the only people in the world who do custom fabric)