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Otter surfboards | Organic Earth Positive T-shirts | Water-based screen print
Saturday, 25 Jun, 2011 – 13:20 | No Comment
Otter surfboards | Organic Earth Positive T-shirts | Water-based screen print

Otter surfboards are an innovative, responsible and exciting young business who have committed themselves to a totally sustainable product. Based in Chapel Porth Cornwall, Otter Surfboards Produce hand crafted wooden surfboards from sustainable timber sources in Cornwall and …

Red discharge print, earth positive T shirts
Friday, 26 Jun, 2009 – 20:49 | One Comment
Red discharge print, earth positive T shirts

Obtaining a good red when discharge printing is difficult, bright reds are not easily achieved. We have had good results Screen printing earth positive T shirts with discharge inks, no difficult batches as yet, and …

T-shirts that incorporate everything we like, The Present.
Monday, 20 Apr, 2009 – 18:28 | No Comment
T-shirts that incorporate everything we like, The Present.

Every now and then we come across T-shirt prints which have all the qualities we like, water-based printing is a must, good design for screen print is another plus.

T shirts which are organic, or at …

Our web of life T-shirt
Thursday, 12 Mar, 2009 – 1:12 | No Comment
Our web of life T-shirt

Delivery of a new gas dryer has held things up a little this week, but all being well we should be up and running again by the weekend. Once this oven is fired up we …

New coal Tshirt
Monday, 2 Mar, 2009 – 15:12 | 5 Comments
New coal Tshirt

Environmentally sound T shirt printing was the request from TANC. So we supplied the Earth Positive T shirt, printed using an opaque water based ink. Find out more about open cast mines and plans for …

Fluorescent T Shirt Printing
Tuesday, 13 Jan, 2009 – 11:49 | 6 Comments
Fluorescent T Shirt Printing

Now classed as a retro look, fluorescent T Shirt Printing is synonymous with the 80′s. It is not a regular customer request, but now and again it crops up. The key to a good quality …

Fair trade hoodies
Tuesday, 2 Dec, 2008 – 20:06 | 4 Comments
Fair trade hoodies

Om Padma of Cornwall produce a nice line in Yoga tops, a print run of fairly traded hoodies printed using waterbased ink. The brightly coloured hoodies are printed using an opaque water based screen printing …

Earth Positive T Shirts
Saturday, 19 Jul, 2008 – 14:36 | One Comment
Earth Positive T Shirts

While some T shirt suppliers  suprise us with mid year price increases, others, namely Earth Positive look like closing the price gap on the non organic brands. As many companies start passing on rising fuel …

Green gofors
Monday, 9 Jun, 2008 – 20:16 | No Comment
Green gofors

“Thanks for the T shirts

Green GoFors go Global!

Just to keep you updated – the green GoFors are a group of Cornwall College students who are studying responsible tourism and …

Organic T shirt printing, the wash test
Sunday, 11 May, 2008 – 16:39 | No Comment
Organic T shirt printing, the wash test

The most thoroughly road tested T shirt of my entire collection, this Surftwisted Organic T Shirt has been in and out of the washing so many times over the last 2 years it is now …

This is not a guided tour
Wednesday, 23 Apr, 2008 – 7:55 | No Comment
This is not a guided tour

The BBC have created and extraordinary programme with blood sweat and T shirts I never expected the BBC to throw young people quite so deeply into the true experience, and it is looking like this …

blood sweat and T shirts
Monday, 21 Apr, 2008 – 9:50 | No Comment

Blood sweat and t shirts will be on our TV screens on 22nd April at 9pm on BBC3. From the bits and pieces we have managed to glimpse so far it looks like it could …