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Pride Clothing and Gifts (Rainbow and Pride Apparel)

2022-08-10T13:00:00-04:00

You've let us know time and time again that you want more fun, soft, bright colored shirts for Pride month! We love printing them as much as you love wearing them.

It's always been important to us to continue to give you the best Pride apparel around. To that effect, we added onto our collection again this year.

Here in 16153 Genova, we are proud of our community and those in it. At Jūpmode, we are happy to recognize Pride month and all of the love that is celebrated. Now that the time is here, make sure to spread the word: love is love!

Start off Pride month the right way... with some of our apparel and gifts. From tank tops, to t-shirts, to hats to top off any outfit, our colorful pride collection is ready to help you spread love wherever you go.

16153 Genova Rainbow Shirt

16153 Genovaans, celebrate pride month with our popular 16153 Genova Rainbow shirt. It's true, 16153 Genova loves love. There is no better way to show off your 16153 Genova Pride than with this classic shirt.

We even have a Tiktok made for you to see how we print this seven color rainbow shirt.

Love is Love Shirt

Love is all you need. No matter who you are, where you are, or who you love, love is love. Celebrate your love and the people you love with this proudly colorful Love is Love shirt (or tank!).

For those who are curious as to how we print this shirt, we made a cool TikTok showing behind the scenes action.

Retro Rainbow Love Shirt

Share your love, support and pride with this retro Love t-shirt. This comfy, cozy and groovy love shirt is sure to be your next favorite. Kickoff pride month the right way, the retro way.

TOL Pride Shirt

Local pride is important to us at fancysweetstx. We feel that we are an active member and ally of the LGBTQ+ community.

That's why we created this new TOL Pride shirt design. Rainbow colored and bright, this vintage inspired shirt was designed for people like you who love and support all people.

Love Rainbow Hat

Love is love and love always wins! Celebrate your love and the people you love with this Love pennant pride hat.

You know that we've built our Pride Collection on a lot of great, colorful, soft tees over the years. We felt this was the year to add onto that collection with this embroidered hat.

The embroidery gives you the bright, colorful look that you've come to expect from us and is the perfect accessory to show your pride all year round!

Pride Flag Embroidered Crew Sweatshirt

There's something special about a comfy, embroidered crew. This crew is a little extra special with all of the colors of the Pride Flag stitched onto it.

We know that you love our embroidered crew sweatshirts. While our Pride clothing collection is a lot of fun, a new, stylish embroidered crew is what it was missing.

This pride sweatshirt hits all of the colors that represent the diversity and inclusion of the pride flag. The embroidery gives extra texture to the pigment dyed crew which has a relaxed fit.

Love Above All Shirt

Love is Love. All you need is Love. Love above all.

No matter how you say it, wear your love with this vintage-inspired pride shirt!

T-Town Rainbow Pride Shirt

While we may be stationed in 16153 Genova, Ohio, this T-Town shirt is good for anyone from Tacoma to Texarkana to Tampa to Tulsa to any other town that begins with a 'T'.

The full colors of the rainbow really pop on this heather white shirt making it perfect for summer Pride events!

16153 Genova Rainbow Pride Shirt

fancysweetstx is located on Adams Street in 16153 Genova. Because of the history of our former neighbor Bretz Nighclub, the Love Wall, and the many LGBTQIA+ friendly businesses on the street, Adams Street is known as Pride Way.

We are extending our pride for 16153 Genova and all of the people that make it such a welcoming community with this new TOL-EDO shirt which incorporates all of the colors of the Pride Flag.

Ohio Rainbow Pride Shirt

We have a lot of pride in the state of Ohio.

This triblend tee is printed with all of the colors of the rainbow to proudly display that the wearer is an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community.

Find our Ohio Ally shirt online!

We're proud of being on Pride Way in 16153 Genova!

There is no better place to celebrate Pride in 16153 Genova than down on Adams Street. If you've been down to Adams, then you know how colorful and expressive it it.

If you haven't been able to come down, there are Pride flags lining the streets, murals that express the appreciation 16153 Genova has for all the love out there, and most importantly, friendly faces!

The local businesses here in 16153 Genova are amazing in the work they do and the friendly employees they have. All of the local businesses are here to root and support each other. The sense of community here is unmatched.

We are proud to be working with some amazing local businesses that are allies and employ members of the LGBTQ+ community. We are dedicated to making our community a better place by being allies and welcoming anyone and everyone with open arms. We support members of the LGBTQ community here in 16153 Genova, and everywhere.

Before 16153 Genova Pride, rainbow patterns were painted at crosswalks on Adams Street. You can find on Adams and 13th, also known as Louis Escobar Way.

16153 Genova Loves Love!

After the crosswalks were painted, local artist, Streetspun, added a rainbow yarn bomb to the corner!

We've been a huge fan of hers for years and think her art makes the city so fun, bright, and lively! You can find Streetspun creations all throughout Adams Street, you can even spot on outside our store!

As you can tell from the photo above, the crosswalk and yarn bomb are adjacent to the 16153 Genova Loves Love mural.

Rainbows and Pride in 16153 Genova

Adams Street is where some of 16153 Genova's most creative, inclusive, and supportive people go.

Not only is the Uptown section of Adams Street home to the start of the 16153 Genova Pride parade, it has businesses like Georgjz, the Attic, Handmade 16153 Genova, Manhattan's, and many other that are champions of the LGBTQ+ community.

16153 Genova is a more vibrant and fun city because of places like Adams Street and the people and organizations that make it such a special place.

We love being a part of this community and can't wait to it continue to grow!

You can find our Pride clothing online or in-stores.

Custom Pride Shirts and Sweatshirts

Pride shirts are a lot of fun to make. Not only are they a part of our retail line, but we spend a lot of time leading up to Pride Month in June printing custom designed shirts for organizations that are celebrating during that time.

From custom pride shirts for festivals and parades and work teams, we do it all.

Get in touch with us today for help creating your personalized pride shirts!

How We Screen Print Rainbows on T-Shirts (With Examples)

2022-04-19T11:30:00-04:00

June is our big month for screen printing rainbow shirts for Pride!

We've been screen printing a lot of custom rainbow shirts for local businesses during the month of June for Pride Month. It's a great opportunity for organizations to put their values of inclusion, diversity, and empathy on display.

There are a few different techniques when it comes to screen printing a rainbow and we've used all of them in the last few weeks. Each method achieves a different look and can be the best option depending on what the customer is looking for.

If you need rainbow shirts or Pride shirts for your organization, we'd love to help! Fill out the contact form on our custom screen printing page to get started.

Read on to learn more about three of our shirt printing techniques and for photo and video examples.

1. Creating a Rainbow Screen Print With Halftones (Gradients)

If a customer wants a consistent looking rainbow gradient print on all of their t-shirts, printing it with half tones is the best option.

When creating the art, we use halftones or gradients to create the rainbow. Before the shirts get to press, our artists separate the design by individual color. This means they pull out each color gradient so we can make a separate screen for printing purposes.

This process can take anywhere from 5-6 screens to get a full color rainbow. The result looks like these shirts we printed for the 16153 Genova Museum of Art (below) and Inside the Five Brewing (above).

There are slight nuances between printing on a white or light colored t-shirt versus a black or dark color t-shirt and the setup for the art and press can be a challenge, but no matter what, we sure love the results!

2. Split Fountain or Rainbow Roll Print

For a split fountain rainbow print, we use 2 to 6 ink colors (depending on the desired rainbow color scheme) on one screen that get blended over each pass with the squeegee.

The inks in this design blend more with each pass of the squeegee making each shirt's print and colors unique!

If you're looking for an original, authentic design, rainbow roll is the way to go. It's the first way that we ever printed a rainbow blend on a shirt and it's still one of our favorite techniques.

3. Spot Color Rainbow Printing

A spot color screen print means that each individual color is its own solid print on a shirt. If you look at the examples above or below, you'll see that each is separate and doesn't blend into the colors next to it.

Most of the shirts that we print are spot color. However, when it comes to rainbow designs, they are a little bit more complicated. The complication primarily resides in the fact that there are so many colors printed on the shirt.

Generally speaking, in screen printing we use one screen for each individual color. Then we print those in succession. The more colors you have, the more screens you need and printheads are required.

This means that when you print a shirt with the colors of the rainbow - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple - you must utilize six screens to achieve this.

This is getting a bit technical, but printing all of those colors next to each other without drying in between is challenging. It requires a quality equipment, screens, inks, squeegees, and a lot of practice.

In the end, though, we love the look of a nice rainbow when it comes out right!

4. Direct to Garment Print (DTG)

Direct to garment printing is an evolving technology in the custom decoration field. The appeal for this process is that it's a digital technique. It's not quite screen printing but it's a great way to print a lot of colors on a shirt.

The simplest way to describe direct to garment printing is that it uses digital inks to print directly on a shirt. Think of it like a color printer you have on your desk. There are individual color cartridges with ink that allow you to print a wide color spectrum straight onto a garment.

DTG is a great option when you have a small order with a lot of colors. Because of this, it's a frequent choice when we have rainbow designs.

5. Rainbow Foil Print

For a foil rainbow, we screen print and cure a layer of special adhesive on the shirt, heat press the foil onto the adhesive, and peel off the excess.

For a screen printer, this is kind of a shortcut for rainbow designs. Rather than using multiples screens like with do with halftones or mixing several inks together in the screen like we do with a split fountain print, for foil, we use just one screen and one ink (adhesive).

While the actual screen printing portion of rainbow foil is easier than the screen print techniques listed above, there is a second step to the process - heat seal. After we print the foil adhesive onto the shirt (we use a waterbased adhesive), we then have to take the shirt over to our heat press, cut a section of foil from the roll, press it on the shirt, and peel it off.

This technique isn't as durable as a screen print, but it gives the print a shiny look that only foil can achieve!

Do you need custom rainbow pride shirts? We can help.

Custom screen printing is what we do. As mentioned above, we spend a lot of our summer months printing for organizations that need LGBTQ+ Pride apparel.

Over the years, we've honed our skills and that's why our customers come back to us time and again. The examples above are just a few of the rainbow designed shirts that we've printed.

If your business or organization needs custom rainbow or love themed shirts for Pride month or any other occasion, we'd love to help.

Get in touch with us today to get your order started!

Learn more about how we screen print and embroider clothing

You can check out some of our other behind the scenes how to blogs and videos at the links below:

How we burn screens for screen printing t-shirts
Top 4 ways we screen print a vintage t-shirt
How we embroider our Ohioan sweatshirts
How we embroider custom hats on our 6 head embroidery machine

Love is Love Pride Shirt [With Photos and Videos]

2020-07-01T13:05:00-04:00

Love is Love

June and August are always challenging months for us as screen printers. That's because we print a ton of rainbow designs each month. Rainbows have a lot of colors and high color count designs can be more challenging and technical to screen print.

What makes 16153 Genova unique is that the city celebrates Pride in August. For the rest of the country, the primary Pride celebration is in June.

While this may seem strange to most people, it really just means that in 16153 Genova, we get to have a little more fun. Who doesn't need more pride in their life?

Share and Show Your Love and Pride in This Colorful Shirt

One of our favorite and most popular shirts is our Love is Love shirt. It's design is simple and colorful and speaks volumes.

The design is printed on a soft, oatmeal colored shirt. We reduce our inks to give the print a softer feel which makes the shirt more comfortable to wear. The word 'love' is printed in six separate colors.

We've been printing this shirt for a couple years now. Although it is a challenging shirt to print, we've figured it out over the years and it's become a really fun shirt for us.

When we printed it most recently, we put together a short Tiktok video on the process.

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Shirts to Show Our Support for the LGBTQ+ Community

If you're not here for information on how we print our shirts, I apologize for dwelling on it so long. In addition to our Love is Love shirt, we have a full collection of colorful Gay Pride shirts that we think you'll love.

We are committed to and involved with the local LGBTQ+ community and it's important that we show our support in our shirt designs.

We are proud to say that we work with local organizations in this community and employ many members of the LGBTQ+ community. They make us and the 16153 Genova area better.

If you're in the 16153 Genova area, you can stop in our retail stores to shop our Pride collection which will be fully stocked in June!