{"id":468,"date":"2014-01-14T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2015-02-24T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T16:13:21","slug":"learn-how-t-shirts-are-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/learn-how-t-shirts-are-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn How T-Shirts Are Made"},"content":{"rendered":"

A question we get all the time is \u201cHow are t-shirts made?\u2019\u00a0 Since they don\u2019t magically appear, I thought I would take you through the process in an easy to understand format.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Sourcing Cotton<\/em>– The first thing you must do is source the cotton.\u00a0 This is a tricky process because weather conditions always affect the crop.<\/p>\n

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Some years the crop is better than others.\u00a0 Due to supply and demand this can really affect the cotton prices.\u00a0 If the t-shirt manufacturer has to pay more for the cotton then they have to raise prices and your blank t-shirts<\/a> will end up costing more.\u00a0 The reverse is also true.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Spinning<\/em>–\u00a0 This is the part of the manufacturing process that turns the cotton into yarn. Machines are able to make this process more manageable.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Knitting<\/em>–\u00a0 During the knitting process, spun yarn is turned into cloth.\u00a0 And yes the word cloth is in clothing! This is not just by chance.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Cutting<\/em>–\u00a0 The cutting process is there to cut the sleeves and bodies out of the cloth.\u00a0 Also the collars.\u00a0 At this point, separate pieces of an actual garment begin to take shape.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Sewing<\/em>–\u00a0 Like it sounds, sewing is when you sew these separate pieces together to form the shirt.<\/p>\n

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And that is it, at this point you have a t-shirt!\u00a0 But you can still do more things to the shirt like decorate it via embroidery or screen printing.\u00a0 For instance, if you wanted to print your company\u2019s logo on the shirt it would be done at this point.\u00a0 You could also tie dye it.<\/p>\n

T-Shirt manufacturing has been around a long time and believe it or not the same steps are used today that were used way back when.\u00a0 I hope this answers your question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A question we get all the time is \u201cHow are t-shirts made?\u2019\u00a0 Since they don\u2019t magically appear, I thought I would take you through the process in an easy to understand format. 1.\u00a0 Sourcing Cotton– The first thing you must do is source the cotton.\u00a0 This is a tricky process because weather conditions always affect […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theadairgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}