Custom apparel manufacturing capabilities

Everything we cut, sew and decorate on our own floor.

Decoration, all in house

Nothing is sent out to a third party, so nothing waits in someone else's queue.

Dye sublimation

Graphics printed into the fibre rather than onto it, so there is nothing to crack, peel or add weight. Full bleed, unlimited colours.

Needs 80% polyester or more

Screen printing

Plastisol and water-based inks for flat, dense colour that survives a full season of washing.

Up to 12 colours

Embroidery

Flat stitch, 3D puff, chenille and appliqué. We digitise your logo in house and send a stitch-out for approval.

Up to 15,000 stitches

DTF & heat transfer

Photographic detail on cotton and blends, with no screen setup, which is what makes small runs affordable.

From 25 pcs

Woven & printed labels

Neck, care, size and hem labels made to your artwork, so the finished garment is yours end to end.

Pantone matched

Cut-and-sew panelling

Colour blocking built into the pattern instead of applied on top of a blank, so the seams follow your design.

Any panel count

Which method suits your artwork depends on the fabric under it, so read these alongside the fabric library and its weights. For garment shapes and graded measurements, see our size charts, and for what we build per sport, the twelve sports we outfit.

Each method in full

What it goes on, what it will not go on, what it costs you in minimum quantity and lead time, and what it is bad at. The last one matters most: picking the wrong method is the commonest reason a kit disappoints, and it is always decided before anything is cut.

Dye sublimation

Heat turns the ink to gas and it bonds inside the polyester fibre. The graphic becomes part of the cloth, so there is no layer sitting on top to crack, peel, stiffen or add weight, and a jersey printed edge to edge weighs exactly what a blank one does.

Fabrics: Polyester and polyester-rich blends, 80% polyester and above. It will not work on cotton, and on a 65/35 blend the colour comes out washed because only the polyester takes the dye.
Colour: Unlimited colours at no extra cost, full bleed to every seam, photographic gradients and fades. White is the fabric showing through, not an ink, so a design cannot print white onto a coloured base.
Minimum: 25 pieces per design
Maximum size: No size limit. Panels are printed before they are cut, so artwork can run across the whole garment and continue across a seam.
Artwork we need: Vector preferred. Raster accepted at 150 dpi or better at finished size, in CMYK. Pantone references for any colour that has to match something else.
Effect on timing: No effect on lead time. It is the default route for team kit.
What it is bad at: Not for cotton, not for white ink on dark cloth, and a sublimated garment cannot be dyed or shade-corrected afterwards. Colour is committed at the print stage.

Usually the right call for: custom soccer uniforms, custom volleyball uniforms, custom basketball uniforms, custom wrestling singlets

Screen printing

Ink pushed through a mesh stencil, one screen per colour, cured under heat. It lays down flatter, denser colour than any digital process, and on cotton it is still the best-looking and longest-lasting option there is.

Fabrics: Cotton, cotton blends and polyester. Works on any colour of cloth, because white and light inks are printed as ink rather than relying on the fabric beneath.
Colour: Up to 12 spot colours, Pantone matched. Gradients are possible as halftones but are not its strength; a photograph is the wrong job for this method.
Minimum: 50 pieces per design per colourway
Maximum size: Up to 40 x 50 cm on the body. Sleeve and cuff prints are limited by the platen, at roughly 10 x 25 cm.
Artwork we need: Vector with each colour on its own separated layer, fonts outlined, and a Pantone number per colour. A flattened JPEG has to be redrawn, which costs a day.
Effect on timing: Adds one to two days for screen setup on a new design. Repeats from a held screen add nothing.
What it is bad at: Every colour is another screen and another setup, so a six-colour design on 50 pieces costs more per piece than the same design sublimated. Thick ink coverage on a stretch fabric will crack if the garment is stretched far beyond its print area.

Usually the right call for: custom baseball uniforms, custom softball uniforms, custom esports jerseys

Embroidery

Thread stitched into the cloth. It reads as the most expensive-looking decoration in the room, which is why crests, club marks and staff polos almost always get it, and it outlasts the garment it is on.

Fabrics: Anything with enough body to hold a stitch: polos, fleece, caps, jackets, bags, heavyweight jersey. Thin performance knits need a backing and will still pucker if the design is dense.
Colour: Up to 15 thread colours per design, matched to Madeira or Isacord shade cards rather than to Pantone. Flat stitch, 3D puff, chenille and appliqué are all run in house.
Minimum: 25 pieces per design
Maximum size: Up to 30 x 20 cm on a body panel, 12 x 6 cm on a cap front, and up to 15,000 stitches before the price steps up.
Artwork we need: Vector or a clean high-resolution raster. We digitise the stitch file ourselves and send a physical stitch-out for approval before the run.
Effect on timing: Adds one day for digitising on a new logo, plus two if you want the stitch-out couriered rather than photographed.
What it is bad at: Fine detail below about 4 mm disappears into the stitch, small lettering fills in, and gradients are not possible. A logo with a lot of small type usually needs simplifying, and we will tell you before we digitise it rather than after.

Usually the right call for: custom baseball uniforms, custom rugby jerseys, custom hockey jerseys

DTF and heat transfer

The design is printed onto film, powdered with adhesive, cured and then pressed onto the garment. There are no screens to make, so the first piece costs the same as the hundredth, which is what makes short runs and one-offs viable.

Fabrics: Cotton, blends, polyester and most performance knits. It is the only route that will put a photographic image onto a cotton tee.
Colour: Full colour including white, gradients and photographic detail, on any colour of cloth.
Minimum: No minimum. This is how single names and numbers, replacement shirts and sample garments get decorated.
Maximum size: Up to 30 x 40 cm per transfer.
Artwork we need: Raster at 300 dpi at finished size, with a transparent background, or vector. Small text holds well, down to about 3 mm.
Effect on timing: Same day for a handful of pieces.
What it is bad at: It is a layer on the surface, so it has a hand feel a sublimated print does not, and over enough hot washes the edges will eventually lift. For a full season of laundering on a game jersey, sublimation is the better answer.

Usually the right call for: custom flag football jerseys, custom esports jerseys, custom lacrosse uniforms

Woven and printed labels

Neck labels, care labels, size tabs, hem tags and hang tags, made to your artwork so nothing in the finished garment points back at us. This is the difference between a blank you decorated and a garment that is yours.

Fabrics: Damask, satin and taffeta woven labels; printed satin and tearaway labels; heat-transfer neck prints where you want no label at all.
Colour: Up to 8 colours woven, Pantone matched. Metallic and fluorescent threads available.
Minimum: 500 labels per design, which is below most garment orders, so labels are rarely the constraint.
Maximum size: Up to 8 cm wide woven. Hang tags to any size you specify.
Artwork we need: Vector, with Pantone numbers. Fine detail below 1 mm will not weave cleanly.
Effect on timing: Adds seven to ten days on a first order, because labels are woven off site and have to arrive before the garments are finished. Nothing on repeats, since we hold your stock.
What it is bad at: The one item here with a genuine lead-time cost on a first run. Tell us about labels at the quotation stage rather than after the sample is approved.

Usually the right call for: custom soccer uniforms, custom basketball uniforms

Cut-and-sew panelling

Colour blocking built into the pattern: each block is a separate panel, cut from its own cloth and sewn together. The seams follow your design instead of your design being applied on top of somebody else's blank.

Fabrics: Any fabric we stock, and you can mix them in one garment: mesh side panels in a solid body, contrast yokes, a different weight at the shoulder.
Colour: Any number of panels, each in its own fabric and colour, and each panel can itself be sublimated before it is sewn.
Minimum: 50 pieces per style
Maximum size: Not applicable. The pattern is the design.
Artwork we need: A tech pack or a flat sketch showing where the seams run. We produce the pattern and send a fit sample before anything is cut in bulk.
Effect on timing: Adds three to five days at the pattern stage, and more sewing time per garment than a plain body.
What it is bad at: The most labour-intensive option here, so it costs more per piece than printing the same look onto a one-piece body. Worth it when the design needs real fabric changes - ventilation panels, contrast stretch inserts - rather than just the appearance of them.

Usually the right call for: custom hockey jerseys, custom football uniforms, custom rugby jerseys

Before you send artwork

Send vector files where you have them: AI, EPS, PDF or SVG, with fonts outlined and Pantone references for every spot colour. Raster artwork works for sublimation if it is at least 150 dpi at the finished print size, but it cannot be scaled up afterwards without the edges softening. For twill and embroidery we need the artwork as outlines, because a stitch file is generated from paths rather than pixels.

We send a digital mock-up with placement and size marked in centimetres before anything is cut, and a physical strike-off on request for embroidery and twill. Both are free, and both are worth the two days they take.

Artwork, reorders and colour matching are covered in the FAQ, and you can send files straight to us if you would rather not use the form.

Tell us what you want made.

Send your artwork, your quantities and your deadline. You will have a costed quote and a fabric recommendation within one working day.

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