Tees are the volume backbone of every decoration business, and the 290 styles here run from How dense a knit fabric is, measured in oz/yd². Typical ranges: under 4.5 oz is lightweight fashion; 4.5–5.5 oz is the midweight band most everyday tees fall into; 5.5–6 oz is heavy everyday and fleece; 6 oz and up is the heavyweight range, with 7 oz and up the streetwear max-weight class. Heavier fabric drapes more substantially, holds prints flatter, and costs more per blank. lightweights to heavyweight cotton past How dense a knit fabric is, measured in oz/yd². Typical ranges: under 4.5 oz is lightweight fashion; 4.5–5.5 oz is the midweight band most everyday tees fall into; 5.5–6 oz is heavy everyday and fleece; 6 oz and up is the heavyweight range, with 7 oz and up the streetwear max-weight class. Heavier fabric drapes more substantially, holds prints flatter, and costs more per blank. . Matching the fabric and weight to the job, instead of defaulting to one blank, is where the margin lives.
Quick take
- Best for
- Volume backbone of every decoration business: event and promo work, retail-fit resale merch, heavyweight garment-dyed streetwear.
- Watch out
- Open-end cotton swallows fine detail and A technique that simulates gradients and shading by printing tiny dots of solid color. The dots vary in size or spacing. Closer together they look darker; farther apart, lighter. ; move detailed art and all DTG work to ring-spun.
- Anchor styles
- Gildan 5000, Bella + Canvas 3001, Comfort Colors 1717.
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Comfort Colors style number 1717
Unisex Garment-Dyed Heavyweight T-Shirt
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Fabric and weight
Most tee decisions come down to fiber and weight. Gildan's open-end cotton, Hanes Essential-T, and the 50/50 blends are the event, promo, and uniform picks: tough and deep in stock. Ring-spun bodies like Gildan Softstyle, Tultex Fine Jersey, and the heavyweight Hanes Beefy-T give a smoother print face and a softer How a fabric feels against the skin. Printers also use it to describe the tactile thickness of an ink deposit (a thick plastisol print has "high hand"). .
For resale and DTG, Bella + Canvas Bella+Canvas's branded name for their highest-grade cotton yarn. Combed removes short fibers; ring-spun twists them tighter. The result is a very smooth, pill-resistant fabric. ring-spun is the standard. Comfort Colors and Shaka Wear cover garment-dyed heavyweight in washed vintage shades, and Lane Seven adds structured heavyweight cotton. LAT and Rabbit Skins extend the range into youth, toddler, and infant so a family or school order stays in one fabric story.
The styles that matter
The Gildan 5000 is the most widely used blank in custom apparel: available everywhere, consistent batch to batch, with a midweight surface that takes The most common screen-printing ink. PVC particles suspended in a plasticizer. It sits on top of the fabric rather than soaking in, which gives a slightly raised feel and very opaque coverage. with strong opacity. The Bella + Canvas 3001 is its retail-fit counterweight, Bella+Canvas's branded name for their highest-grade cotton yarn. Combed removes short fibers; ring-spun twists them tighter. The result is a very smooth, pill-resistant fabric. A step after carding where short fibers are combed out. Combed yarn is smoother, stronger, and pills less than straight-carded yarn. ring-spun cotton whose tight, smooth face is what DTG and DTF want. The Next Level 3600 sits between the two in How a fabric feels against the skin. Printers also use it to describe the tactile thickness of an ink deposit (a thick plastisol print has "high hand"). .
On the heavyweight side, the Comfort Colors 1717 pairs a How dense a knit fabric is, measured in oz/yd². Typical ranges: under 4.5 oz is lightweight fashion; 4.5–5.5 oz is the midweight band most everyday tees fall into; 5.5–6 oz is heavy everyday and fleece; 6 oz and up is the heavyweight range, with 7 oz and up the streetwear max-weight class. Heavier fabric drapes more substantially, holds prints flatter, and costs more per blank. garment-dyed body with the vintage palette retail brands chase, and Shaka Wear's How dense a knit fabric is, measured in oz/yd². Typical ranges: under 4.5 oz is lightweight fashion; 4.5–5.5 oz is the midweight band most everyday tees fall into; 5.5–6 oz is heavy everyday and fleece; 6 oz and up is the heavyweight range, with 7 oz and up the streetwear max-weight class. Heavier fabric drapes more substantially, holds prints flatter, and costs more per blank. garment-dye tees deliver the oversized drop-shoulder cut at max weight.
Decoration & buying notes
Open-end cotton prints bold spot color fine but swallows fine detail and A technique that simulates gradients and shading by printing tiny dots of solid color. The dots vary in size or spacing. Closer together they look darker; farther apart, lighter. , so move detailed art and all DTG work to ring-spun. Heavyweight fabric holds a print flat and resists cracking, which is part of why the boxy heavyweight trend keeps growing.
Garment-dyed blanks vary slightly between dye lots, so buy a reorder-sensitive job in one purchase. And stock women's cuts alongside unisex; relying on unisex-fits-everyone costs retail sales.
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