A the buyer can cut off the price if
>it's a gift.
>
Iris has a good point about removability of price when the purchased item
is a gift.
When I designed my hang-tags I made certain there was enough space in the top left-hand corner (on the front) to punch a hole for the thread and enough spa circle in which to write the price. The customer can then peel off the adhered price if he/she so desires.
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>>I was wondering if anyone knows a good source for ordering cloth labels with your name and/or care instructions on them for sewing into your wearables?<<
I spend about an hour searching the Net for just that last Friday, and while there are several sources, the neatest idea I ran across was making your own with that special iron-on paper that goes in an ink-jet printer. You know, the kind usually used for making your own t-shirts? this way you can make labels as you need them, even if you are making one-of-a-kind wovens, and include your name, logo, fiber content, washing instructions just as you want it. You'd have to iron it on white or light colored poly/cotton, then cut it out and hem or pink the edges, then tack them on your article.
Peggy B.
> I was wondering if anyone knows a good source for ordering cloth
> labels with your name and/or care instructions on them for sewing
> into your wearables?
HHeirloom produces elegant labels at reasonable prices. Most particularly for weavers, these are "woven", that is your name or whatever you want is woven not printed. They come in various sizes and all sorts of colors. I have them in light grey and black (for dark or light items). Heirloom also has all sorts of care/content type labels.
http://members.aol.com/heirlooml/
There are, of course, all sorts of other solutions. Take some time to think about what you're expecting for your products before selecting your label. A professional product at a premium price requires a professional looking label and professional packaging. I recently saw a silk scarf, hand-dyed, handwoven, plain weave, $95, with a cardboard tag--the tag didn't make me want to spend $95!
Margaret
MargeCoe@concentric.net
Tucson, AZ, USA
I was wondering if anyone knows a good source for
ordering cloth
labels with your name and/or care instructions on them for sewing
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>into your wearables<TT>?</TT></BLOCKQUOTE>
Heirloom produces elegant labels at reasonable prices. Most particularly
for weavers, these are "woven", that is your name or whatever you want
is woven not printed. They come in various sizes and all sorts of
colors. I have them in light grey and black (for dark or light items).
Heirloom also has all sorts of care/content type labels.
<P><A HREF="http://members.aol.com/heirlooml/">http://members.aol.com/heirlooml/</A>
<P>There are, of course, all sorts of other solutions. Take some
time to think about what you're expecting for your products before selecting
your label. A professional product at a premium price requires a
professional looking label and professional packaging. I recently
saw a silk scarf, hand-dyed, handwoven, plain weave, $95, with a
cardboard tag--the tag didn't make me want to spend $95!
<P>Margaret
<BR>-----------------------------------------
<BR>MargeCoe@concentric.net
<BR>Tucson, AZ, USA
<BR>-----------------------------------------
<BR> </HTML>
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Peggy wrote:
> the neatest idea I ran across was
> making your own with that special iron-on paper that goes in an >ink-jet printer. You know, the kind usually used for making your own >t-shirts?
There is also available, at least for Canon printers, white cotton you
can print on directly. It's intended for printing your own cross stich
patterns.
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> > the neatest idea I ran across was
> > making your own with that special iron-on paper that goes in an
> >ink-jet printer. You know, the kind usually used for making your own
> >t-shirts?
>
> There is also available, at least for Canon printers, white cotton you
>
> can print on directly. It's intended for printing your own cross stich
>
> patterns.
>
Last year I made care labels by ironing freezer paper to a good
quality cotton. You have to make sure that the above is the size of a
sheet of paper and that the freezer paper is 1/4" wider than the cotton.
Put it, one sheet at a time, into the printer feed tray and print. You
can then remove the freezer paper and cut up your labels to size.
Anne in Saskatchewan
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At 02:52 PM 10/19/98 -0000, you wrote:
>I have made up a small card (sort of a regular greeting card design, abo=
ut
>3"x5" which has pertinent information written in. I have found and my f=
olk
>have found this suitable, as far as wearables, yes, I use Sterling Label=
s.
>
I have made cards on the computer...business card size. The front side
looks like a business card with a design and my name, address and phone
number.=20
The reverse side is printed with the following information:=20
Fabric Content Care
=8F blend =8F machine wash-gentle
=8F cotton =8F machine dry - delicate
=8F rayon =8F hand wash
=8F linen =8F cold water
=8F silk =8F lay flat to dry
=8F synthetic =8F dry clean
I then check what is appropriate for that woven item. This is a 'hangtag'
using one of the threads from the weaving.
If the item is a garment, I do sew in a woven label stating 'handwoven
by...yours truly'.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Chris in Michigan's U.P.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ =20
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Friends
Just reminding those in NZ - Care and Content labels must be made to last the life of the garment - by Law <g>
What the consumer does after buying garment in cutting the darn scratchy item off is their business <vbg>
Cathy
> . . .what type of paper you used in your printer to print
> these business-card size hang-tags?
Well, you didn't ask me, but I'll answer anyway, as I had a business for
a while producing graphics for small business. I did mail pieces and
forms, but mostly business cards. Go to your local printer and ask for
card stock or cover stock in the color and finish you want. (It may take
more than one try to find a friendly one; mine let me go in back and
root around in his shelves.) My favorite for cards is white enamel card
stock - it has a hard glossy finish on one side that takes ink jet ink
remarkably well. The other side is uncoated, for writing in your specs.
You'll also need [access to] a paper cutter to do a decent job of
cutting them apart.
Standard card size is 3.5 x 2", I make mine 3.5" square and fold (run a
smooth pounce wheel against a ruler along the inside fold line for a
neat fold) to the standard size, leaving a blank strip to write the
price on. Care/content go inside, and the buyer can cut off the price if
it's a gift.
There are also lots of micro-perfed and scored forms available at Office
Max/Staples, etc., in various sizes and finishes.
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>Can you tell us what type of paper you used in your printer to print
>these business-card size hang-tags?
>
>Linda
>
Wal-Mart sells sheets of Avery Business Cards, Item #8371 (100 cards for
less than $4.00). I used the Print Shop Premier Edition program. It prints
them out ten to a sheet. They then tear apart so cleanly you cannot tell
they were perforated.
<>< <>< <>< <>< <><
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Hi all,
I've been doing more quilting that weaving lately. So yes Keepsake
Quilting does have a web site it is
http://www.keepsakequilting.com/
Also you must put the shinny side of the freezer paper next to the
fabric or it will stick to your iron.
Lee in Silver Springs,NV at the intersection of flotsom and jetsom
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You can now buy fabric backed with paper in several colors to put
through your printers. I bought mine from Keepsake Quilting which is in
the Northeast United States. They do a lot of mail order business,
including international. I don't think that they have a website yet. I
have also seen the fabric advertised in quilting magazines.
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I hope this isn't a repeat of other's ideas. I'm skipping about ten
digests.
Years ago when my kids went off to camp I refused to sew in labels for all
items. I went to the stationary- printing shop and had rubber stamps made
with their names. I bought a stamp pad and liquid permanent fabric ink and
stamped their clothes, sheets, towels flashlights, tarps, shoes and
anything else that they would misplace.
I don't see why one couldn't weave their own materials or use samples and
stamp those . That way the weaver- designer- artist could choose the color
and look for each item. I hate to see bright white labels on dark items.
I hope this opens up a lot of ideas.
Sandra in N.C where fall colors are approaching.
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A word of caution about 'freezer paper'. Some is wax coated which makes it
a good iron-on stabilizer. Much of it is plastic coated which is a
disastrous iron-on.
Also available at fabric stores and quilt stores is iron-on stabilizer
paper. Works great.
At 03:23 PM 10/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On 10/20/98 13:13:13 Anne wrote:
>>
>> >> Last year I made care labels by ironing freezer paper to a good
>>quality cotton.
>
>Anne, when you say "freezer paper" do you mean the heavy, slightly glossy,
white stuff? I'm
>assuming you do the ironing before you feed it in to the printer <g>, but
what makes the cotton
>stick to the paper? How warm is the iron?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Karen B.
>Wordweaver
>L.A.
>
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>
>
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