Tea Towel advice please

[GC1pink]

Hello Everyone,

i would like to expand from mugs, into textiles, namely tea towels, Napkins, oven gloves, tote bags, and aprons. I have no interest in t shirts.

May I ask of the experienced members, who produce tea towels, what material you use and what equipment and process.

Thank you.

[GoonerGary]

I doubt that polyester tea towels will do much drying. You'd probably want cotton or linen.

[logobear]

cotton, and its a big area to print .....
cannot use transferes, or vinyl as you loose the dry-ability ...... - and wouldn't stand the boil wash either.
Screen print (or DTG) i think!

[GC1pink]

Thank you, I'm getting so confused by all the different techniques- who knew it was so complicated? I'm realising it needs to be direct to garment but I have also been looking at Uv printing. Thanks again.

[UK Printed Mugs]

Head to subli.co.uk although small tea towels are out of stock. Probably our fault so sorry!

[logobear]

dtg is a very expensive way to mass produce, especially as tea towels are not a premium priced item.
Suggest you contract out - min 100 off to test your idea

[pisquee]

Can't comment on tea towels, but we buy in rolls of high quality polyester fabric from textile wholesalers (not the cheap stuff usually used for sublimation blanks) , and sublimate them to then cut up and sew into products - including aprons (like you mentioned) along with cushions, lampshades, skirts, baby and doggy blankets, washbags, purses .... Now you mention it, we should probably look again at making up tea towels

[GC1pink]

Hi,
May I ask how you find the small tea towels last with colour sublimation through the washing machine please?

thanks

[logobear]

can you dry anything with a poly tea towel?

[GC1pink]

Hi Logobear,
I was referring to the new cotton teatowels available at subli.co.uk to see if they were suitable for washing.