Shirt Designing Machines

Several machines are needed to design these button-down shirts.

When a consumer purchases a T-shirt, the consumer might think only one machine creates that T-shirt. However, several machines are required to design and craft just one shirt. Textile industries need to invest on different types of fabric crafting and pressing machines to create any number of shirts. If you are a craft clothing designer, you can use non-industrial versions of those machines to make your own shirt.

Embroidery

Embroidery machines are developed to craft the smallest detail into a fabric. Embroidery machines can work in a design for a shirt in seconds. With supervision, you can load the embroidery machine with any number of strings and craft the fabric over a mechanical stitch. Some higher-end models can stitch threads at a speed of 1500 stitches per second.

Garment Printing

A garment print presses a digital piece of art or graphic design onto a shirt. The printer pressurizes designs set up on the printer, allowing any design to be pressed on a shirt. For example, if a consumer wanted a picture of the Earth pressed on a plain, white shirt, the shirt designer would design an image of the Earth, load the colors for the image, place the shirt on the garment machine, and press down the device. After a few seconds, the designer can lift the machine and the image will be pressed onto the shirt.

Heat Press

Heat press machines help merge fabrics on top of fabrics. If a design needs to be ironed on a shirt. The design can be placed on the shirt and the heat press can heat the shirt to such high degrees the design merges onto the shirt. This is different from garment machines because a heat press uses an existing design that is already made and physically merges it onto the shirt through heat.

Dyers

Shirts that need color to them require to be dyed. Instead of dying the shirt within multiple colors, new devices can both saturate the shirt in dyes and dry the shirt. Textile workers need to fill up and mix up the colors for the shirt. The textile worker just needs to place the shirt on the device and it is then saturated in the dyes for a set period of time. Then, after the timer is up, the machine brings up the shirt to be hung up to air dry. Many machines are able to warm up the machine to increase the drying process of the shirt.

References

• SWF East: Embroidery Machines
• SWF East: Digital Garment Printers
• Pro World: T-Shirt Printing Supplies
• Devrekha: Jet Dyeing Machine (Fabric Dyeing machine)