Hey, everybody!
I’m Wes from Printful and this is Carissa with Bella+Canvas.
Today we are here at their headquarters in their showroom.
And I know we get a lot of questions all the time about the different products that we
carry.
We have a lot to choose from to offer on your store, and so Carissa is going to go through
and tell us about their different fabrics, the different types of cuts and just tell
us about Bella+Canvas in general.
Because they are a premium company and they stand out from the crowd.
So with that, let’s just dive in and learn about Bella+Canvas.
We’ve been in the industry for about 25 years.
Our owners actually were best friends out of high school, and they started off as screen
printers, screen printing out of one of their mom’s garages.
So they really know all the ins and outs of what our customers do on a day-to-day basis.
And from there they started to get into the private label industry.
So they were doing private labeling for brands like The Gap, Banana Republic.
And that’s where they recognized a void in the printable market for women’s fashion
styles.
So that’s how Bella came about, and then a couple of years later we created Canvas,
and we just combined the name, so now we are known as Bella+Canvas.
And we have so many styles to offer - we have women’s, men’s, unisex, baby, youth.
So you can really outfit the whole family.
The 100% cotton is typically what gets the best print when it comes to direct-to-garment,
DTG, right?
Correct, yes! 100% cotton is the basic fabric for this industry.
It really is the basic fabric in our line, and our 3001 is really the gateway into our
brand, which Printful is using.
So the 3001 is 100% combed and ring-spun cotton, and we only use combed and ring-spun cotton,
which is the highest-quality cotton that you can get in this industry.
Most other brands in this industry still use carded open-end, which is that scratchy, stiff,
cardboard-like tee.
So it’s really important for customers to understand the difference between combed ring-spun
vs. carded open-end.
With combed and ring-spun you are going to have a smooth, flat surface and it’s going
to be tight where you can actually have a flat surface for printing.
And it’s very soft and smooth, and, yeah, it’s great, I love it!
And it’s definitely not, like, I just run a 5k and they gave me a free burlap sack.
Right!
So something you are only going to wear once, so what's so important about our brand and
what customers really recognize when they actually put on our styles is that it’s
something that's comfortable, it fits great, and it’s something they are going to wear
time and time again.
What is so important for brands like Printful or other brands that are putting their artwork
or company logo is that this is really going to be a walking billboard for their brand
and it’s something that people are going to wear time and time again.
It’s a good staple piece for your brand, right?
If you want that classic, good t-shirt to put your stuff on, this is a good one to start
with.
Yes, that's really a great way to put it.
It’s the staple piece.
And our women’s companion to the 3001 - this is a unisex style - is our 6004.
So this is our Women's Favorite Tee.
This is also 100% combed ring-spun cotton.
This is more of a slimmer-fitting style.
And then another style that you offer on your website is the 3005.
So this is our unisex v-neck tee.
This one is the same fabric, a 100% combed and ring-spun cotton but obviously with a
v-neck.
So you have the 3001 which is the crewneck and then you have the 3005 which is the v-neck.
Okay, cool!
So those are all three, like, great, I’m starting out my brand and I need the staple
pieces.
Yes, these are all three go-tos for if you are just starting out in the industry.
We have the 3001, which is offered in 100% covering spun cotton, and then we also offer
it in heather CVCs, which you mentioned earlier.
Heather CVCs are really blowing up in our industry right now.
People are really gravitating towards textured fabrics.
And that being said, does it feel softer, is that kinda like what's going on, is it
more stretchable?
Yes, because of the polyester, it does have a little bit of a softer feel.
Both fabrics are 30 singles and 4.2 ounces, so the higher the single, the softer the fabric.
So the same single, just the polyester does give it a little bit more of a softer feel.
Cool!
So if you are wanting that, you just stick to the heather colors, and it literally says
on the site, like, navy and then heather navy, so that’s what you would do.
Yes, so the navy would be just the 100% cotton, and then the heather navy would be heather
CVC, the cotton polyblend.
So our next fabrication is our triblends.
Triblend is essentially a step up from the heather CVC.
A triblend is a blend of polycotton and rayon, the rayon really gives it that super soft
silky feel.
This is awesome!
This is really like your old vintage PET shirt that’s going to stay in your closet for
the rest of your life.
I mean, literally, you will wear this every single day and it will last for years on end.
Yeah, I love this, and I love that there is color variation there that’s not a solid.
This is great!
I love it!
This is definitely, like, if I wanted to go with a vintage type vibe and just a bit more
premium-type thing, this is where I would focus my attention.
It’s so important for the industry that you can DTG on our triblends.
We are really the only ones in our industry that you can DTG on our triblends and that
is because of the synthetic fabric that we use.
We use the highest-quality synthetic fabric that you can get in our industry, so it really
provides a great fabric for DTG and it is a little bit more of a vintage look.
But because of this vintage fabric, that's really what most people are going for is that
vintage feel, that vintage look.
Typically printers that are using DTG run into problems where the polyester soaks it
up, but between your synthetic blend and our processing we can do a really good job of
being able to print.
So lastly I have our flowy collection, which I’m so excited that Printful recently picked
up.
Because this is really our best-selling collection on the women's side, and it’s such a soft
fabric, it’s a polyvisco, so it’s 65% poly and 35% viscose, and I have right here
the 8800.
Flowy got its name from the oversized drapey effect that this really soft fabric gives.
It looks great on every body type.
And like I said, it is so soft.
Yes, it’s crazy soft.
This collection was inspired by what we saw trending in retail.
So we took those fashionable retail styles that we actually wear and we recreated them
into the flowy collection.
And it’s got a cute little back here.
Yes, so this racerback is really unique because it has this detailed ruching.
So we have most customers putting a little print up here or just a print on front.
Next we have our 8803, this is our women's flowy muscle.
It has a little peekaboo on the side, looks great paired with a bandeau, and this is one
of our best-selling fashion colors that we added this year.
This is very soft, it’s almost like silk.
That’s what I was going to say, but I didn’t know if that was right or not, but, yes, that
totally feels like silk, and I like that it’s kind of like the boyfriend, boyish type.
Yes, the boyfriend fit is really in.
Alright, very cool!
What else have we got?
Lastly, I have the long-sleeve v-neck from our flowy collection, this is our 8855.
Everything in the flowy collection is more as an oversized drapey fit and it is the same
fabric.
Carissa, thank you so much for walking us through all of these different products that
we have on our site.
To check out specifically Bella+Canvas on our website go to Products & Pricing and click
Bella+Canvas to filter out, and check out all of their great options that you can add
to your store today.
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