| Pick up the t-shirt closest to you, and look at it | | | | 2. Cutting the cotton into the T-shirts |
| carefully. What material was used, what is the shape | | | | When we need to increase our stock of t-shirts, the |
| of the t-shirt, and what does the printing look like? | | | | cotton colour of our choice is moved from the mill to |
| Tshirt creation consists of those 3 areas: | | | | the CMT. A CMT stands for Cut Make Trim and is |
| 1. Cotton from the mill | | | | responsible for taking the tshirt pattern we give |
| 2. Cutting the cotton into the shape of the T-shirt | | | | them, and cutting the cotton into the T-shirts. |
| 3. Printing an image onto the T-shirt. | | | | 3. Printing the image onto the T-shirt |
| This is how we make a t-shirt, but keep in mind that | | | | The blank t-shirts are now moved to the printing |
| there are hundreds of different options in each area. | | | | company, where the images are screen printed onto |
| 1. The cotton from the Mill | | | | the T-shirts. Before the screen printing can take |
| We worked with the laboratory at the mill to come | | | | place, the correct colours for the images have to be |
| up with the 12 colours we print on. All the 100% | | | | worked out using a method know as pantones. |
| cotton we use, is kept in large rolls of grey material, | | | | Screen printing is expensive if you are only doing a |
| and when we require a specific colour, it is dyed to | | | | few T-shirts, but the quality of the screen printed |
| the colours we need. However, our mill keeps stock | | | | t-shirts is currently better than the other methods |
| of black and white cotton for us on hand, as these | | | | such as Vinyl printing and Direct to Garmet Printing. |
| are the colours we use most often. | | | | |