How we put your design on the garment
We offer three core decoration methods. Each one suits a different mix of artwork, run size, and finish — here's how to pick.
Embroidery
Stitched thread on the garment, the traditional premium finish.
We stitch your artwork directly into the fabric with up to 12 thread colours per design. Looks and feels high-end on polos, jackets, caps, and workwear. Embroidery is at its best at left-chest, sleeve, cap-front, and small back-yoke sizes — typically anything up to about 12 cm wide.
- Best for
- Logos, monograms, badges. Anything where a textured, premium look matters more than fine detail.
- Run size
- From 1 piece. No minimum.
- Durability
- Exceptional. Survives the lifetime of the garment, including hot washes and tumble drying.
Worth knowing: Very fine detail (hairline strokes, gradients, photographic imagery) doesn't translate into thread — pick DTF or screen for those. Large fills add stitch count and cost.
DTF transfer
Direct-to-film. Modern, vivid, no minimum.
Your artwork is printed onto a special film in CMYK plus a white underbase, then heat-pressed onto the garment. The result is a flexible full-colour print with crisp edges that sits on the surface of the fabric. Works on cotton, polyester, blends, and most performance fabrics.
- Best for
- Full-colour artwork, photographs, gradients, fine detail. The everyday workhorse for short runs.
- Run size
- From 1 piece. No minimum and no setup fee.
- Durability
- Very good. Holds up to 40–50+ machine washes at 30 °C inside-out without significant fade or cracking.
Worth knowing: Sits slightly proud of the fabric — you can feel the print. For very large all-over designs, screen print is usually softer to the hand and a better choice past about 30 units.
Screen printing
Ink pushed through a mesh screen. The cost-per-piece winner at volume.
Each colour in your design becomes its own screen. We mix Pantone-matched ink and pull each colour through onto the garment in turn. The print soaks into the fibres — incredibly soft, almost imperceptible to the touch on cotton, with rich saturated colour.
- Best for
- Big runs of a 1-to-4-colour design. Tees, hoodies, totes, anything where you need 50+ identical pieces.
- Run size
- From 25 pieces upward. Below that, DTF is more economical because screen printing has a per-screen setup cost.
- Durability
- Excellent. Properly cured screen print routinely outlasts the garment.
Worth knowing: Each ink colour adds a screen setup fee, so 6-colour photographic artwork is not the right fit — pick DTF for those. Best used for bold, vector-style artwork with flat colours.