Pressing Tips for Faux Bleach

Our Bleached Bradshaw Blanks shirts are 95% polyester.

They are made from white polyester fabric, and the color is able to be dyed to give the bleach look.

The feel is in between polyester and cotton feel with a shine. I really love these! 

Here are some tips that have worked well for me through trial and error. 

**** Never ever put heat tape on the color part of the bleach*** you will lose color around the tape. Ombre shirts can't have any heat tape on the shirt. We sell heat activated sticky paper or other companies sell fabric adhesive spray. You can use heat tape, just keep it on the white areas. 

*** Heating instructions: Make sure you use ***three*** sheets of pink butcher paper. Cover the whole heating element, the whole bottom pad, and one inside the shirt. - The reason is the shirt is faux bleach, meaning fake bleach, so the colored area is made with sublimation ink and will dye the padding heating element if you do not have it completely covered. You also need one on top of your pressing pillow (or whatever you use to lift it up) 

ALSO- Put a pressing pillow in between your shirt (with some butcher paper) Just the size of the white area. (May need to cut the pillow) You want to put the least amount of color under the press. If you do not have a pressing pillow some use towels to lift it up.

Why to you need to lift it up? Because sublimation ink works similar to Plateau, if it has direct heat (even with butcher paper) you will start to lose color. Lifting up at least 1/4 or 1/8 of inches will help you not lose color. Also, you want to cover your pillow with butcher paper so you can reuse it. 

You can also press for 60 seconds at 360-375 

**Teflon shouldn’t be used with sublimation if it isn’t separated by butcher paper. Teflon may cause ghosting. 

Do not reuse the paper. Even if it looks ink free, it may be hiding, waiting to transfer to your next shirt. (Every press is different 

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**Always wash inside out, on cold and dry on low heat to prevent pilling. If you ever get pilling, (white fuzzy) they sell Electric Fabric Shavers on Amazon between $7-$15ish.