what's going on guys John Santos and in today's video we're actually gonna take
you through the entire process of making a t-shirt and showing you how it
actually gets printed and made so you could build your brand from the ground
up in this video what we're gonna do is we're actually gonna head on over to
BELLA+CANVAS where we're gonna show you guys behind the scenes of how some of the
production stuff is made out and then we're actually gonna head on over to a
print shop and show you how that is all done alright so by the end of this video
you guys will have all the knowledge available that you need to get started
and if you guys have any questions as you guys are watching this make sure you
comment down below and more importantly make sure you subscribe hit the bell
notification and stay till the end of this video where I'm gonna give you guys
an amazing bonus to help build your brand from the ground up all right I'm
excited to get this thing started so let's do it
yo so in the process of making a t-shirt and actually going to print it's
important to realize that it all starts with a design all right so right behind
me here is a design room to BELLA+CANVAS it's where they create the new ideas
that they have in the pipeline and they really put it all together which
connects it to the overall production side of things which we'll show you
right after but in this part of the video I just want to show you guys what
it takes to design new ideas and new collections and the work that goes into
it and eventually becomes a shirt that your printer receives which is able to
print your design and launch your brand all right let's do it and this is where
the patterns are made and communicated with the factory alright so more
importantly on the next video is that we're actually going to be launching
we're gonna dive into a lot more detail here but this is where the entire
production starts alright in the design room and as you could see here they got
the patterns laid out they got all the designers working actively to build the
newest lines and newest collections that are launching years months or maybe are
just gonna be sampled and not used you never know what will happen but this is
where it's all done from the design stage you actually head on over to the
sampling side so this is where the ideas from over there from patterns and
everything come together to actually being produced now they produce multiple
samples out of here as you could tell it's the end of the day right now so
every worker probably went home but they have multiple machines to simulate what
it is on the actual production floor alright so as you can see here multiple
machines multiple skill sets are needed but it all comes together and they get
shipped to your door once the designs are tested and fitted they go into the
cutting side of the production so now we're at the cutting facility this is
where they extended some of their tables there's another room over there with
some more tables and there's actually another building on the other side with
even more so bella canvas is upping their production on all kinds of
garments the demand is very high and essentially the cutting floor is where
the product comes to after the patterns are designed are graded and they're
tested this is where the patterns are laid out and are actually mass-produced
to create millions of garments all right so instead of just making one
at a time these are cut in millions of quantities and as you can see in this
process they actually ensure that the fabrics are as flat as possible they
allow them to rest and then they actually vacuum seal them before they're
getting cut so as this is a mass cut production facility what this means is
that the machines actually are very precise they're laser guided and
essentially it allows every piece of garment to be cut and stitched to
perfection an important thing to know in a cutting facility is that speed and
efficiency is everything to this type of business model especially in the United
States where the labor rates are increasing the quality of work and the
demand of product is starting to rise we want to make sure that you have the
leanest meanest most efficient manufacturing facility in America so now
we go into the sewing side of the actual production of a t-shirt garment so watch
let me show you guys a couple things right back here as you can see is where
they're starting to label and actually check the quality of the actual garments
so this is out of the production line already and they're just kind of
snipping away and making sure that the product was put together right it's
being set up cut sewn and then over here you can
actually see that they're also organizing their cut pieces and they're
cut panels which then go to the front to get sewn so I want to show you guys all
of those different areas and things to do let's do it the sewing facility mass
produces all of the garments that were cut and are now being produced in
America alright so as you could see throughout this entire process they got
different lines of fabrication to speed up the process keep consistency in the
design and quality control it
so as you can see on this every single seller has a very specific job function
so this lady right here is doing a certain stitch to complete part of the
t-shirt that's rolling out for one of the women's collection so everybody has
a certain job duty and it gets completed stitch by stitch piece by piece like I
mentioned earlier this is where they make their USA tee's so obviously those
are a special type of addition and a special price but I'm showing you guys a
little bit about how the process works so this is a final check point before
all the products are boxed up and ready to be shipped out to the people that
ordered them so you can see right over here this is where they actually put
together the packages that end up getting shipped to wherever it is that
being ordered whether that's the screen printer or the distributor that's going
to sell that product and we're gonna actually head on over to the screen shop
where these boxes arrive they unload and they print on your design let's do it
what's up guys so I'm here at the Shirt Agency we're about to go inside all
right so I'm excited to be here I'm excited to show up talk to Cole and get
this thing started let's do it thanks for thanks for having us here no problem
and what I want to do is what we want to really go over a few of the processes
involved with actually making a t-shirt so in terms of what does it take to
actually screen print DTG and if somebody wants to do embroidery what all
goes down in that process yeah absolutely can you describe a little bit
about the process of what it takes to actually screen print so like what what
processes go on in the background and what should the entrepreneur provide
yeah so I mean essentially what we're doing is we're creating glorified
stencils so first we go to the computer and we take the artwork and we create
films so we print a film out with a big inkjet printer we send that over to the
light table the light table is going to expose a screen which has a
photosensitive emulsion when we rinse that out with water we basically have
like a really really high detailed stencil and we set that up for the press
and we go an automatic press we put the ink
through each individual screen so what is the ideal scenario for somebody to
bring and start on a print production versus something like DTG well DTG is a
little bit easier just because it you can do it a little bit faster and ignore
some of the quality issues if you want to make a beautiful screen print
resolution matters a lot also I would work exclusively with vector art if
possible you can do that with Adobe Illustrator and can you describe a
little bit of the DTG process and how that goes down yeah DTG is really easy
so with that the clients are just providing us with a PNG image and
basically all we're doing is running it through a big inkjet printer for
garments so it's like a thirty thousand dollar printer that looks exactly like
the one you'd have at your home on your desk for those that are looking to do
embroidery what's the process involved with maybe embroidering a shirt or a hat
here with you guys so with embroidery all we're doing is taking the artwork
sending it through a digitizing program which normally is pretty automated and
then we're taking that digitizing program and then shoving it into a
embroidery machine with the USB stick and then you're just pressing stitch and
you just watch the machine go up and down with a needle there's not much
touch to it you don't really do much of anything with embroidery awesome guys I
hope you enjoyed this video and you are better able to understand the process of
what it takes to actually have a raw fabric created into a t-shirt and put a
design all right I know at times it could be a little bit overwhelming and
that's why these YouTube channels here and that's why we're forming this
community so make sure you leave your questions if you have any down below
more importantly subscribe to this channel share this video with a friend
check out Bella canvases channel for additional information and more
importantly if you guys need additional resources or help I launched a guide
which is a blueprint to start in your clothing line and you guys can access
that right over here check out the next video is associated with this channel
and I look forward to seeing you guys on the next one bye. From The Ground Up