We offer digital fabric printing services onto a range of different fabrics, and we can produce tea towels from a wide range of different fabrics (just email us for a price list) but this article is about the most popular tea towel printing fabrics that we work with, and the differences between them.
The Difference Between Coated and Non-Coated Fabrics
Most of our tea towel printing fabrics are available coated or non-coated, which means with or without a special pre-treatment for pigment printing.
This coating provides an enhancement in the vibrancy of print, while also adding a long-term improvement in colour fastness.
The main benefit of pre-treatment is in the vibrancy of the print. Images which need to be printed as vibrant as possible, work better on pre-treated fabrics, as the treatment helps the colours to “pop”.
If your design isn’t particularly vibrant, or if a slight improvement in the vividness of the print is not important to you, then using an uncoated fabric may be the best option for your product.
Please Note – any reference to lead times are a correct estimate at the time the article was published. Lead times are always estimated and never guaranteed, and for our current estimated lead times see: lead times & deadlines.
Our Most Popular Tea Towel Printing Fabrics.
The most popular fabrics we use for tea towels, is plain cotton, cotton drill, half Panama, and half Panama organic.
Cotton Drill
This is a medium/heavy weight fabric at 255gsm, with a classic drill diagonal weave, and is another very popular fabric for tea towels. When it comes to uncoated fabric, we believe the cotton drill is the fabric which performs the best in terms of print vibrancy from an uncoated fabric.
Half Panama
Half Panama is our most popular tea towel fabric and is a medium/heavy weight 230gsm or 309gsm fabric with a very high-quality look and feel. This is a very popular fabric also for digitally printed cushion covers, aprons, oven gloves and various other homeware products.
Half Panama Organic
If you’re looking for a natural coloured tea towel fabric, rather than an optic or non-optic white, the half Panama organic is a great choice. Being 230gsm and 309gsm, it again gives you a choice of medium/heavyweight weight fabric. It is a very high-quality product in look and feel.
These are our most popular tea towel printing fabrics, but as we mentioned earlier, we have a wide choice of fabrics.
We can print onto various other cottons and linens, including hopsack, bull denim, Windermere, twill, warp satin, sateen, poplin, bamboo – and various other cottons, linen unions and cotton linen blends.
For the full list of fabrics along with prices, just give us a call on 01625 876949, or email us.