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Production Process of T-Shirt

Production Process of T-Shirt

Introduction

T-shirts are called so because originally t-shirt are developed from a tubular fabric.

T-shirts are made of knit fabrics."T-shirt" surfaced in the United States when

they were issued by the U.S. Navy sometime around the Spanish American War(1913) worn as underwear beneath uniform.

Raw Materials

The majority of T-shirts are made of: 100% cotton,Polyester,cotton/polyester blend

Flowchart of Production Process

Spinning of Yarn

Fabric ManufacturingFinishing

Sewing

Trimming

Packing

Dispatch

Spinning of Yarn

Cotton fibers are used to make 100% cotton yarn or sometimes polyester-cotton blending is done.

Spinning of cotton is done on generally Ring Spinning Machine.

Polyester being as a synthetic yarn is developed by extrusion process.

Polyester-cotton blending may be done on combing machine.

Fabric ManufacturingFabric for t-shirt is manufactured by

Knitting Technique. Circular knitting machine may be used.Knitting technique produces fabric in

tubular form.Knitted fabric is mostly measured by weight

of fabric.

Finishing

After the cloth is knitted, wet processing treatments are done to control shrinkage of fabric and fabric is dyed according to our requirement. Bleaching is also done.

Cutting

Patterns are made according to customer’s order

Marker Making(closed markers are used but open markers for child’s t-shirts)

Spreading of fabricCutting of fabricBundling

Stitching

Garment pieces are stitched.Thread is used according to fabric

characteristics e.g. cotton core polyester rapped thread.

Sometimes only white color thread is used to avoid time wastage.

Mostly superimposed seam is used with over end stitch.

Bound seam is used for neckline.

Parts of T-Shirt

FrontBackSleevesNeckline

Stitching

Printing

Screen printing is used to create different designs on shirt.

Printing is used as a source of advertisement and to express your emotions now a days.

Trimming

Shirt accessories e.g. buttons, stickers are applied to shirt.

Threading is also done.

Packing

Shirts are pressed and then packed for dispatch of order.

Dispatch

Finally the packed bundles are delivered to the customer.

Characteristics of T-Shirt

little sleevesHighly flexibleComfortableLow dimensional stabilityLow cost

Applications

SportswearAestheticWorkExerciseSummer wear