Decoration

In screen printing, we spend a lot of time talking about meshes, inks, exposures, and press settings—but often one of the most important tools in the entire process often gets overlooked: The squeegee. At the end of the day, the squeegee is the tool that’s actually *doing the printing*. It’s the component physically shearing the ink through the screen and onto the garment. If that action isn’t clean and precise, nothing else upstream really matters.

Shirt Kong, St Peters, MO Hot market printing is one of those things that sounds cool on paper and then hits you hard in real life. World Series. Super Bowl. Big moments where fans want merch immediately. Not next week. Not after a reprint. The next morning. That kind of turnaround is wild, and it’s […]

By Ryan Moor, with takeaways from Dylan Gilligan and The Shirt Show Newsletter This year marked the 8th Print Hustlers, and for me, my 8th time attending. As Bruce Ackerman, founder of Printavo and the Print Hustlers Conference, said in his opening remarks—it’s incredible to see how far this event has come. From a humble […]

How to Evaluate Polyester Garments Before Decoration and Production When it comes to decorating on polyester, dye migration is one of the most common and costly print defects. It occurs when the dyes in synthetic fabrics become reactivated under heat and migrate into the ink layer—especially whites—causing discoloration. At MADE Lab, we conduct standardized migration […]

MADE Does Flatstock 84 When your friends are in town, you make it a point to visit them. And when your 'town' is 'Texas', and your friend is Aaron Draplin, and he's hanging out with your other friends, Industry Printshop, AND it's during South by Southwest, it is mandatory to pay everyone a visit. Tom […]

Aiming Students Towards Success. Last month, BELLA+CANVAS, Supacolor, and MADE teamed up to help Business of Student Success (BOSS) educate and inspire students to grow artistically and professionally through the power of apparel decoration. BELLA+CANVAS’ goal was to introduce the group of students to the apparel manufacturing and distribution process as well as the accessibility […]