Most t-shirts are screenprinted, some are printed with what is essentially a giant inkjet printer. But few are printed using woodcuts! I’ve never seen it before now myself.
But judging from the t-shirts printed by Tugboat Printshop, it looks like a pretty good method! They currently have three t-shirt designs available, of which these are two:
Night Sprawlers from Tugboat Printshop
Polar Bear Playing Solitaire from Tugboat Printshop
The only thing I don’t like about their t-shirts is that they have a relatively large (though creatively incorporated) print of ‘Tugboat Printshop’ on the backs of all of their shirts. Hopefully their future designs will lack these back prints, because what they handprint on the front of these tees is quite lovely!
Link: [Tugboat Printshop]
Expensiveness: $24
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UPDATE: I forgot to mention that they have a video tutorial for printing t-shirts with woodcuts! Click the link or watch it here:
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You know, I bet if we get the right kind of ink we could do this with the woodblocks in the Bow and Arrow…hmmmmm…
I absolutely love the designs on the shirts! the mushrooms are totally awesome and the waves with the penguins is so rad. I was wondering if you also carved the woodcuts yourselves?? I would love to see a video of how you do that.