Heat Setting T Shirts

by Don Johnson

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This article covers heat setting your airbrushed T Shirt to hopefully keep the paint from fading.If you use Createx Wicked Colors, Aqua Flow,ETAC or Medea Textile paint you should find this helpful.

The most commonly used airbrush paint for airbrushing T Shirts is Aqua Flow, ETAC, Medea Textile Colors, Createx all need to be heat to be color fast; not wash out or fade. Heat set fabric for permanence by one of the following methods with a house hold iron or heat press for best results.

Pictured above is a Hix T Shirt Heat Press which is commonly used in commercial airbrush t shirt shops to heat set their t shirt designs. At a cost of about $850.00 for a 15 inch by 15 inch press it puts it out of the budget for most airbrushing hobbyists.

For the t shirt airbrushing hobbyists or small commercial t shirt airbrushing operation a more cost effective method for heat setting their t shirt designs is using a house hold iron. To cover the design while heat setting Parchment paper can be purchased from most grocery stores very inexpensively. What you will need than is a house hold iron, parchment paper and a clean flat surface to heat set your t shirt design with this method. Pictured above is a t shirt design I airbrushed and the equipment, supplies I will use to heat set the design. 

To heat set your t shirt design place the t shirt on a clean flat surface with no wrinkles in the shirt place the parchment paper over your design. Iron the shirt for two minutes using the highest setting on the iron (300 degrees is suggested) keeping the iron moving all the time.
I hope you found this helpful. 
Its just paint have fun.

Below is a video I produced covering the info in the article above.

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