How Do You Cut Out Patterns For Custom T-Shirts?
When low numbers or high expense prevents you from sourcing professionally screen-printed products, you can easily produce a small run of custom T-shirt designs using a good old fashioned stencil technique! Advantages include low production cost and quick turnaround, not to mention that the low-tech feel to the finished product could help reinforce an urban or distressed brand, especially with a little extra overspray. Create the initial design in your chosen application. In the example image, Illustrator was used with the addition of a free vector resource file from Go Media. A graphic from the wings collection was modified and combined with the Spoon Graphics logo. Remember when creating your stencil to plan ahead and think about what areas will be cut out. Some areas may need splitting to allow the areas of negative space to connect. If not these areas would simply fall out when the stencil is cut out. Print your design out onto a card of the desired size. Place a board inside your
