Welcome to The Foundry Blog!
Thanks for visiting our blog, otherwise known as the subconscious of our website! Here you’ll find useful information on our services and an occasional Ecommerce store for our random fundraisers and such.
We want our customers to understand the screen printing and embroidery processes. That’s not to say we want to show you how to pull a squeegee but there are a lot of subtleties in the business. So you could say that that’s what our blog is about. Helping to shine light on the custom garments underbelly and also inspiring others to take up local production of whatever they are passionate about. Now there will be some boring technical stuff but we’ll do our best to lighten it up and keep it fun!
Printed Hoodies and Sweatshirts
Printed Hoodies and Sweatshirts in Seattle Custom hoodies and sweatshirts are a staple of our print business. With our shop being located in Seattle [...]
Embroidery or Patch?
A guide to selecting the best decorating method for your design. FIRST know the limitations of embroidery by understanding the level of detail in [...]
Custom Size Tag Options
Custom Size Tags For your Screen Print and Embroidery projects. Let's talk about custom size tag options for your custom printed apparel projects projects, [...]
Choosing the Right Price Point
Who is it for? Think about the end user and what they’ll be doing with the garment. Doing a little customer profiling can go [...]
A Guide to Understanding Minimums
How do minimums work for custom apparel? A minimum is the smallest number of items that we can produce per design. This includes Screen [...]
Contract Graphic Design for Apparel
Contract Graphic Design for Apparel Work with us to create the perfect contemporary designs that will appeal to your audience. If you are [...]
Custom Woven Labels
Custom Woven Labels Seattle Are you looking for an elevated level of branding or unique logo placements. Woven labels are a great way to [...]
Simulated and CMYK Process Printing
Alright let's take a look at Simulated Process and CMYK screen-printing methods. To fully understand what they are and why they are so commonly [...]
Embroidery Basics
Welcome to embroidery basics where we'll take a second to look at the sewout process from start to finish. First thing to take into [...]
Screen Printing Basics
We know that the screen printing process can be hard to understand so we wanted to take a second and go over the key [...]
A Guide to Sizing Your Graphics
A Guide To Sizing Your Embroidery and Screen Printing Art First understand that setups do not change size, putting together the screen stencils for [...]
Custom Patches and Woven Labels
With all the custom patches and labels we’ve been doing lately we thought it would be good idea to put together a gallery [...]
Screen Printing With Black Ink
Alright let’s talk about black ink. When most art is native to white paper and black pen it’s important to understand the best practices [...]
Specialty Inks and Applications
Let’s take a minute to talk about specialty systems and let’s start by defining them. Specialty inks and systems are print systems that create [...]
Get your fade on!
Get your fade on! Posted on December 21, 2016 In this post we would like to go over some of the methods involved in screen-printing [...]