http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk The Idiots Guide Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:22:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today natural and chemical fibres are mixed to reduce production costs, develop different textures, subtler colours, and above all to avoid exhausting the planet's resources. Natural fibres obtained from animals such as sheep (wool), goats (mohair, cashmere ), llama (angora), silkworm (silk), or from plants such as cotton, flax, ... http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk/2010/08/09/polycotton-fabrics/ Chemical fibres can be split into two families: artificial fibres, based on vegetable cellulose (acetate and viscose), and synthetic fibres, based on products derived from petroleum (polyamide or nylon, polyester, acrylic). Artificial fibres are made from modified vegetable or animal fibres. After six years research, Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet ... http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk/2010/08/06/chemical-fibres/ The clothes have been designed, made and shown on the catwalk. Now they have to be sold. That is where the media come in, summoned by the press officer. Press offices are the link between the production (the brand, the designer) and the journalist. They present information about the ... http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk/2010/08/02/public-relations/ Why do girls fancy having a little black dress or pale muslin curtains at the same time? To ascertain what is happening in fashion, we call on specialists. Always keeping an eye on the new directions of fashion, the trend consultant anticipates the shapes, colours and materials that ... http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk/2010/07/27/trend-consultants/ Embroidery can be worked by hand or machine. The hand-made embroidery associated with haute couture consists of using a needle or a crochet hook to reproduce a design with thread on a fabric. Paillettes or beads or other ornamental features, such as small pieces of wood or metal, ... http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk/2010/07/23/types-of-embroidery/ A Saturday afternoon patching up a whole in a bloodied sweater or taking up the skirts hem may not seem like a Saturday well spent. For a variety of reasons, the self-sufficiency once so valued in generations past now seems outdated and unnecessary. This is a shame, because ... http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk/2010/07/23/diy-fashion/ Here at the start of the 21st-century, the digital revolution has made it possible and commonplace for images to be generated, manipulated and reproduced electronically and instantaneously at the flick of a switch. We think nothing of using digital cameras, scanners, computers and printers for generating and transmitting ... http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk/2010/07/16/direct-imaging-for-lithography/ There is a huge potential for hemp as a sustainable echo textile especially when compared to synthetics and non-organic cotton. People may sneer, but the T H C, the active narcotic ingredient in the plant, is present in small enough quantities for hemp growing to have been made ... http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk/2010/07/15/clothing-made-from-hemp/ I always dreamed of what the future would hold while I watched movies like 2001 in awe. Well today I was reading about the latest generation of thermo regulating garments for the sports enthusiast. Basically the clothing can now keep you cool when you are too hot ... http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk/2010/07/13/thermo-regulating-jackets/ What a most unexpected request for t shirt printing. We were asked to provide a large quantity of t shirts for the Close Air Support tour of duty in Afghanistan. The t shirt printing was collected by one of the Harrier pilots who told us fascinating ... http://t-shirt-printing.org.uk/2010/07/12/afganistan/