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Every photograph here is one I took, of a shirt I pressed. Nothing is a mockup or a render.

So far that means WHOSOEVER — the only design I have photographed. The others are on the shop page, set in the type they print in.

I — The Making

No screen, no print shop. Vinyl cut, weeded by hand, pressed one shirt at a time.

A folded black WHOSOEVER T-shirt resting on the press mat, with the heat press open behind it.
Plate 01 Gildan Heavy Cotton, 5.3 oz · Black The press, open, mid-job. Every shirt goes through it one at a time.
Close-up of the pressed lettering, showing the cut edge of the vinyl sitting on top of the cotton weave.
Plate 02 Heat-pressed vinyl · detail The cut edge of the vinyl, sitting on top of the weave.
The neck label of the blank, reading Gildan Heavy Cotton, size XL.
Plate 03 Gildan Heavy Cotton, 5.3 oz · XL The blank, named on the label so you can look it up.

II — The Garment

The blank is named on every listing, so you can look it up before you buy.

A black WHOSOEVER T-shirt hanging on a hanger against a plain wall.
Plate 04 Gildan Heavy Cotton, 5.3 oz · Black WHOSOEVER on the hanger — the garment itself, not a mockup of it.
A green WHOSOEVER T-shirt laid out flat.
Plate 05 Gildan Heavy Cotton, 5.3 oz · Green The same design on green, laid flat.
Close-up of the pressed lettering and the neck label on a heathered shirt.
Plate 06 Heat-pressed vinyl · detail Close enough to see the weave against the edge of the letters.

III — Worn

A shirt on a hanger tells you very little. These are the same designs on people.

A black WHOSOEVER T-shirt being worn, photographed from the chest down.
Plate 07 Gildan Heavy Cotton, 5.3 oz · Black Worn, chest down — how a 5.3 oz cotton tee actually hangs.
A blue WHOSOEVER T-shirt being worn indoors.
Plate 08 Gildan Heavy Cotton, 5.3 oz · Blue Blue, worn indoors.
A customer wearing a green WHOSOEVER T-shirt, photographed from below the collar in her classroom.
Plate 09 Gildan Heavy Cotton, 5.3 oz · Green A customer, in her classroom. Shared with her permission.

The first Balm & Banner shirt to end up somewhere I had nothing to do with. She teaches in it.

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