[Leica] LUG embroided chemises?

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

sounds good to me.

Gene

-------------- Original message from Didier Ludwig 
<rangefinder@screengang.com>: -------------- 


> I guess cafépress are not making serigraphic textile prints, which needs a 
> certain edition size to be economic. Most likely these prints were made on 
> transfer foils, mirror-invertedly, then applied with heat on the cloth. If 
> they're not already separating before, such prints usually do it at the 
> latest 
> after one or a few washings. I have kept some self serigraphed shirts and 
> jerseys from the eighties and nineties, which have been washed and washed 
> again 
> - the cotton is strongly bleached, but not the prints. 
> 
> Let me make a proposal: 
> 
> If we can get an edition of at least 3 dozens together, I could let fine 
> quality 
> shirts embroided with the LUG emblem, with free choice of size and of 
> colors for 
> chemises and embroidings. No T-shirts or jerseys, real gentlemen's shirts 
> with 
> collar, cuff, regular front buttons or pearl-of-mother pushbuttons on 
> demand. 
> The cut is something between Hawai and Nashville country look. Very cool. 
> 
> My textile printer here, one of the best in our country, just puts sizes 
> and 
> colors in his computer, and the whole stuff is automaticly produced and 
> embroided in Asia a week or two later. Color changes from sample to sample 
> without additional costs. Adding the 2nd shipping from here to the 
> LUGgers, it's 
> not that fast and cheap as cafépress, but better. BTW cafépress isn't 
> really 
> cheap. 
> 
> So if there's some interest, I could work out an offer with sample 
> pictures and 
> prices. All I need is the vectorized LUG emblem in EPS or ai, or at least 
> a good 
> pixel artwork. 
> 
> Didier 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >I had some black shirts available for a while, but the printing was of 
> disappointing quality, so I removed them from the online store. It's been 
> close 
> to a year; maybe I should try again. 
> > 
> > 
> >>It's a pity they have no shirts in black (would suit my M6 better) 
> 
> 
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