How to Create a Vintage T-shirt

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Hey its Tory with BELLA+CANVAS there's a time and place for a nice new t-shirt
but we also know it's sometimes hard to beat the feeling of a good old worn in
team but what if you could create that look right away without spending all
those years wearing it in well today we're a deluxe screen printing to map
out the basic steps you need for creating vintage tees
so there are a few different types of t-shirts and fabrics that work well when
going for a vintage vibe poly cotton blends and tri blends in particular are
great because the yarns take the ink differently giving it that worn in look
today we're going to use our vintage slub a fabric with a great tonal texture
thanks to the uneven knit to showcase this another great option is to go for a
shirt that is pre distressed like our 3009 from the fast fashion collection
this tee is made up of super soft 100% airlume combed and ring-spun fabric but
features holes throughout for that worn in look so the next step is to pair that
tee with the right design we've consulted an expert designer Charley Pangus
Pangus to showcase how to do just that what's up guys so for this artwork we
wanted to apply a nice vintage look and in order to achieve that I needed to
find some really heavy textures online for the first texture we use rust and
when you apply that above the artwork on top we use the white ink so It blended it
right into the artwork it gives it a nice broken feel which we love with
the vintage look for the second texture I like to use an oil splatter and I put
that below the artwork which gives it a even more broken up look it's also
important to note that I applied these textures very very heavy on purpose so
when we actually print it and you don't lose a lot of detail and then when you
actually print it you get this nice vintage design that we were looking for
and last but not least you're going to need to choose a printing technique that
complements both the shirt and the design so there are two different types
of inks that you can use for a vintage print there's either plastisol without
a base or water base with plastisol without a base you typically would like
to print on a dark fabric that way your bright colors are going to get less
bright and they're gonna darken up and it's gonna lay right on top of that
fabric and you're gonna have a little bit of a natural distressed look the
other way would be to use water base which is gonna lay into the fabric and
it's gonna have a really soft feel to it as if you wash that tee a million times
there are two different types of water-based inks there's water base that
you're gonna print on white or pastel colors when you're printing on darker
colors like blacks reds blues you want to go to what's called discharge
printing that has a discharge base to it which actually bleaches out the dye in
the fabric with that one it's great for a distressed looked as well depending on
the fabric you're using if you're using a poly blend it's going to discharge the
cotton part of it so that's gonna help with that a little bit of that vintage
look thank you for going bright it's gonna
darken up so be aware with that you might want to do some pre-testing on
that because your colors will change now on 100% cotton that color should be true
again you'll want to do some testing on that the two tees that we printed today
the distressed tee and the slub tee are great options when printing that
vintage look let us know what you thought of the vintage teens we created
in this video in the comment section be sure to check out how Charlie completed
his design in his video linked below you can also check out the products we
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