Garment Type

T-shirts are durable, versatile garments with mass appeal that may be worn as outerwear or underwear. Since their creation in 1920, T-shirts have evolved into a billion dollars market. T-shirts are available in a variety of colors, patterns, and styles, such as the standard crew neck and V-neck, as well as tank tops and scoop necks. T-shirt sleeves may be short or long, capped, yoked, or raglan. Additional features include pockets and decorative trim. T-shirts are also popular garments on which to display one's interests, tastes, and affiliations using customized screen prints or heat transfers. Printed shirts may feature political slogans, humor, art, sports, as well as famous people and places. T-shirts are also inexpensive promotional vehicles for products and special events.

T-shirts fit just about anyone in any size, from infants to seniors. Adult sizes are generally small, medium, large, and extra-large, while sizes for toddlers are determined by month and weight. In addition, to compensate for the larger heads of infants relative to their bodies, t-shirts are specially designed with shoulder openings that may be fastened with buttons or snaps.

Typically made of cotton textile in a stockinette or jersey knit, it has a distinctively pliable texture compared to shirts made of woven cloth. Some modern versions have a body made from a continuously knitted tube, produced on a circular knitting machine, such that the torso has no side seams. The manufacture of T-shirts has become highly automated and may include cutting fabric with a laser or a water jet.

The T-shirt evolved from undergarments used in the 19th century and, in the mid-20th century, transitioned from undergarment to general-use casual clothing.

1) Normal Wash T-Shirt Production:

Normal wash T-Shirts Production consists of washing garments in hot water with adequate detergent and softener, rinse with plain water and dry in tumble dryer until it is 100% dry. Some sodium is added to lend the t-shirt a prominent washed look. Water temperature, proportion of components of wash is adjusted as per requirement of wash and types of fabric; the T-shirt is made of. The softener makes the fiber soft and tumble-drying makes the fabric fluffier. Our expert technician can handle washing by an expedient way to solve many problems arising out during washing. Washing can also affect different t-shirt parts differently. Shell fabric may be solid color while pocket may be white pocketing piece. After washing, it may appear that pocketing piece has been stained.

2) Pigment Wash T-Shirt Production:

Pigment Wash t-shirt production is similar to normal wash but a bit costlier. The t-shirt is solid color pigment dye. The requirement is that the color should fade evenly to lend the t-shirt a prominent washed look. Pigment wash requires a higher temperature of water than a normal wash.

3) Bleach Wash T-Shirt Production:

Bleach wash t-shirt production means that bleach chemical is used in water while washing in a tumble washer. Strict washing time is a requirement with such wash because otherwise the t-shirt may be over bleached and the color cannot be reversed.

4) Stone Wash T-Shirt Production:

Stone wash t-shirt production means washing t-shirts with special stones so that t-shirts achieve a very strong washed effect. Volcanic stones are used in such wash abrade exposed parts of the t-shirts, this idea of washing with porous volcanic stones is to give the t-shirt a strong and rough wash to achieve the pronounced washed effect through abrasion on the exposed areas, such as the seams and pocket corners.

Sometimes, bleach is added to the wash so that the color fades in a more pronounced manner. This is done to make navy t-shirts into a more faded light blue. Such wash requires a lot of skill, experience; workmanship and expertise so that desired results are achieved.

5) Acid Wash T-Shirt Production:

Acid wash t-shirts production is a patented process and can be used only by permission. Acid wash t-shirt production is also a kind of stone wash. The wash is performed in two steps: in the first step, t-shirt is washed without water and in the 2nd step with water.

The treated stones carry the chemical to bleach the exposed parts and bleach them to white. But the hidden parts remain untouched. Whitening agents are often added to water during rinse to make the white color in the t-shirts whiter to display acid wash.

6) Enzyme Wash T-Shirt Production:

Enzyme wash t-shirt production is performed with a kind of live cell. Enzyme can break some fibers of fabric and gives the fabric special effect desired on the t-shirt. Enzyme wash provides the fabric a soft, sanded or “peached” effect very desirable on many t-shirts.

7) Caustic Wash T-Shirt Production:

Caustic wash t-shirt production is a pre- printing wash. Caustic is a strong chemical with highly corrosive features. Prior to printing on cotton fabrics, gray goods are treated in boiling water with caustic, which also has strong cleaning power, especially for grease. This caustic wash t-shirt production can remove all soil, dirt, grease, fine particles of cotton seeds as well as all foreign materials. As a result, only pure cotton fiber in the fabric for printing is left. It leads to stability of printing and well-cleaned fabric. However, when we want to do caustic wash on t-shirts, we just do the opposite of the above; prior to printing, fabric is not treated with caustic wash for cleaning.

Printing is done on the row & unclean fabric so that about 30% of the printing done on the surface may eventually fade away. Finally, printed t-shirts are caustic washed. It leads to, about 30% of the printing washed away along with the foreign materials- leaving about 70% of the printing on the fabric. It eventually makes the design or stripe of the desired look. For this type of wash, the printing must be pigment print with a binder. Baking treatment should also be performed so that the color will stay on the fabric more or less securely to coincide with the caustic wash to be done later.

8) Garment Wash T-Shirt Production And Over-Dye T-Shirt Production:

This type of wash is also used for t-shirts to give them an exclusive look. Garment wash t-shirt production creates a unique but different look. In this process of wash, the lining or pocketing will pick up the color too. By this garment wash, direct dye or reactive dye same as dyeing fabrics or yarn may be used. Direct dye is cheap. So, direct dye may be utilized with the concomitant use of color fixing agent, after dying to make the color more stable. In case of solid color fabric staining within the t-shirt is not a problem. However, if t-shirts of different colors are washed together by the consumers, color may transfer to other t-shirts. Reactive dye is always preferable in this case.