The document discusses the history and production of t-shirts. It is believed by some that t-shirts originated during World War I while others believe it was at the end of the Industrial Revolution. The document also discusses online t-shirt printing services, the use of child labor and poor conditions in some t-shirt factories, screen printing and stencil techniques, and how campaign t-shirts are used to promote different causes.

1. History of the
t-shirt.
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2. History
of the t-shirt.
✦ Certain people believe that the idea of the t-shirt
started in WWI.
✦ others believe that it started at the end
if the industrial revolution.
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3. My favourite t-shirt.
✦ The top costs £19.99
✦ It comes in sizes 6-18
✦ Its sold by Riverisland
✦ I like the design on the top
✦ It is machine washable
✦ It is made from 100% polyester
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4. Online t-shirt printing
✦ Print on demand is where online
stores put your graphics and texts
on clothes and other products.
✦ It is an easy way of buying t-shirt,
instead of buying them in bulk and
having t-shirt left over, you get
exactly what you need.
✦ There are many different ways in
which websites do their print on
demand.
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5. Blood sweat &
✦ The low cost clothes from shops
such as Primark come at a high t-shirts
price for the young children toiling
in the indian sweatshops.
✦ An investigation revealed that for
60p an hour children as young as 11
were working in squalid conditions,
sewing tiny beads and sequins onto
cheap t-shirts by candle-light.
✦ The revelations were highly
embarrassing for a company that
has always claimed it is possible to
sell T-shirts for as little as £2 with
out compromising its ethnics. t
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6. Stencils &
silkscreens
✦ Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to
support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of
mesh that transfer ink as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller
or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink
past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas,
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I think that using a stencil is quite an easy way of printing a image.
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7. Campaign t-shirt.
✦ Campaign t-shirts can be used to
campaign for or against a
campaign
✦ When there aiming the t-shirts
at 16-19 they find out what the
like and incorporate it within the
design.
✦ By people wearing their t-shirts
it is promoting the campaign
and getting the word out to
others.
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