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Just to cover the basics there are many ways to personalize your own clothing at home, this will cover just a few:
Fabric Pens
Heat transfers
Stencil and Ink roller
To Start with Fabric Pens there is a huge variety in the the types of fabric pens you can
purchase. Including "puffy ink" which will expand as it drys giving you a somewhat 3D image and glow in the dark ink which I think is fairly self explanatory.
Fabric pens are probably the cheapest and easiest to use. You basicly just draw or write what you want on your shirt, shoes, pants, etc and then just let
it dry (for most pens). After 24 hrs or what ever your pen calls for you are ready to wear your newly personalized clothing. Fabric pens arent hard to find many
craft stores carry them and if you cant find exactly what you are looking for chances are you will find it via Google.
Heat transfers are probably one of the most cost effective ways of getting a digital design on a shirt. There are several varieties to transfer paper as well paper for
light clothes, dark clothes, ink jet printers, laser jest printers, hot peel and cool peel just to cover the basics. All of them are fairly self explanatory so you just
need to plan ahead and read the instructions carefully. For example dont go out and get a light color laser jet hot peel transfer paper for a dark shirt when you have a ink
jet printer and wait until the shirt is cooled and try to peel off the transfer paper. Most transfer papers will work with a regular iron so you simply need to print your
design, place it where you want it on the shirt/clothing iron on and peel at the proper time. Transfer paper can also be found in many locations to include wal-mart and target.
Stencil and Ink roller is probably the most lasting when done properly. The biggest draw back to this method aside from finding a good stencil is the ink setting method, being that some inks
require high temps to cure the ink but I have heard of some people setting their shirts in a conventional oven for a minute or two after preheating (you probably want a few test shirts and a
fire extinguisher handy just in case). You can also you a heat gun but it will be harder to apply heat evenly. To create a design with this method you make a stencil leaving the open space where
you want the design to come through, carefully remove the stencil and then heat cure the ink if needed and your clothing is almost instantly ready to wear.
Please know that this is in no way intended to be a comprehensive guide to make your own shirts just a basic guide. |
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