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What is sublimation printing and what are the limitations? My legging design is mostly solid black. Can you print that? What colour fabric do you print on? How does the print look after sewing? What colours of thread do you sew with? Who decides the thread colour? Are your seam allowances always exactly the same? I see small dust marks on my print. Is this normal? My design placement is not the same as in the mockup. Why is that? How small of text can I print? Will my colours print the same as I see on the screen? There’s a small shadow on my black text. Why is that? I placed 2 different orders of the same product and the colours are a bit different between the 2 orders. Why is that? I ordered a pair of yoga leggings printed mostly with black and there is a difference between the band colour and the legs colour. Why does this happen? Will by sublimation printed fabrics and clothing fade? Will sublimation printed products shrink? Can I provide my own fabrics for sublimation? Why is there a number inside my leggings? What is it for? How are scarves finished? Why does the stitching overlap on hems?

Thread Colours

We sew all our products from scarves to pillows to clothing using 4 thread colours: white, light grey, dark grey and black. We find that out of all the printed artwork we see in a day, we can in most cases match your prints to one of these 4 thread colours without taking away from the final product.

Choosing thread colours for your products is a task done by our prep team. The prep team receive the printed pieces, inspect the print for quality and affix all necessary labels. Once an item is prepped, the thread colour is chosen based off of the main colours in the artwork. If the order is a wholesale order, we will try to make sure all items in the order are made in the same thread colour. We cannot guarantee that if you place 2 wholesale orders at different times that they will have the same thread colour. Sometimes the choice between 2 thread colours is not easy, for example, on artwork that is mainly dark gray scale. Do you go black or dark grey?

Our guiding philosophy when choosing thread colour is to treat every product like it’s our own. Since many of our staff have creative backgrounds, it’s second nature for us to think like our customers and make good decisions when it comes to thread colour.

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