Shirtworks

What a pleasant surprise. Googled «T-​shirt/​Embroidery» and they came up. Called first and then stopped by a few days later. Great service all around. Highly recommend them for custom work. Can’t wait to see the result.

These guys are mother loving rock stars! An internet shirt company who provides the same service claimed my design wouldn’t work on a shirt. Not content to take no for an answer, I visited Shirtworks. The owner talked to me, told me some options, made color suggestions, got the design to work AND showed me a better version with a border, then did the shirt in just a few days for about the same price as I was going to pay the other guys. I even received after –hours email support!
In addition to custom tees, they have plain and pre-​designed shirts you can walk out of the store with on racks and on wall displays. Everyone here is friendly, helpful, and kind of awesome. I recommend Shirtworks highly!

I’ve gotten a lot of shirts embroidered by shirtworks. They do and excellent job with a fast turn around time. I like that they’re a local business and I can bring in my clothing, much better than a website that will just mail you the finished product.
Rick, the owner, is also a really nice guy and knows his business well and stands by his work. Extremely professional.

A long time ago it was my duty to get a school spirit shirt together for my college. It was that experience that led me to understand exactly how much of a pain in the butt it can be. Up until that point, I thought one could scribble out a design on a piece of notebook paper and email it to the powers to be and voilà! A thousand of t-​shirts would show up on my school door step. Not so!
I think that I would have been eased into the process a little bit better if I started with Shirtworks instead of jumping into the deep end in South Bend. C’est la vie.
I would never have even considered re-​dipping my toe into the t-​shirt making waters if it hadn’t been for this girl nicknamed Klud who I met some years ago. She had this thing where she would have a single t-​shirt made for herself every year on her birthday. It was clever and quirky and I was intrigued. I thought, if she can do it for one shirt every year then surely so can I!
Soon after I met Klud I spent some time talking to Rick, the owner of Shirtworks about my t-​shirt concept. I wanted three shirts made for me and my two BFFs at the time. Then, I also wanted two other shirts made for me and my significant other. Rick was super friendly and easy to work with. He patiently explained the process and worked with my designs. The BFF shirts were a smashing hit! The significant other shirts… not so much. It was my fault and not Shirtworks.
It was through that process that I learned that there are at a few processes for making a t-​shirt. There’s one where the solid color is actually cut out into the shape of your design and then somehow pressed onto the shirt. In order for that to work the design has to be über simple. It turns out nice, bright, and bold. My BFF shirts, for example, had a solid circle with our first initials cut out of the middle.
The next way is essentially an iron on. The design is printed in full color onto an iron-​on piece of paper, they hand cut around it to remove the excess paper, iron it on, and then peel back the paper leaving the design. For this to work properly the design has to high quality and the shirt needs to be a light color. The significant other shirt was a pretty low quality image and it turned out pixel-​y. Rick forewarned me about that but I charged ahead anyway. Eh — things you do for the flavor of the moment. All impulsive and ish.
The last kind is a screen print. Shirtworks (and most other companies) won’t bother making a screen unless there’s a large quantity of shirts being made with the same design (e.g. the spirit week shirt).
Shirtworks also does embroidery and a couple other methods but I’m not so familiar with those. What I DO know is that they let you pick out your own shirt, hat, bag, jacket or whatever. It’s nice that Shirtworks is so incredibly flexible and easy to work with. They have always responded to my emails quickly and answered my calls with friendliness and warmth. They were honest with me about my design ideas.
Oh — and the price is RIGHT. Fast forward to the present moment. I just designed what Rick called «the shirt of the day» for my friend’s birthday present (see the picture) and it cost me just under $ 30 AAAAAAND it got done in three days (I called and emailed on Monday and picked it up on Wednesday of this week)! That’s what I call good service!

This place is fabulous. I went in to make a «joke» t-​shirt using my company business card logo and got a true qaulity product back. The owner sent me an email proof of the custom art and let me pay over the phone so that someone else could come pick it up (As I wouldn’t get there before closing from downtown).
I would totally order more from this place!
The price was a bit steep ($ 28 for one shirt), but when you consider it was a custom project and Lucky Jeans sells their mass-​makreted stuff for $ 40 a pop, this is not bad.

They’ve got a ton of vintage tshirts here and they can also print stuff on them… its pretty grungy inside and you have to search around for some cool stuff but the staff is really friendly and its reasonably priced

They do custom printing on t-​shirts, hats or just about any piece of clothing you can think of. They are family run and have alot of loyal customers. This place reminds me of the late 1970’s when alot of people were getting custom t-​shirts made and put there name on the back. This place is far out man!