This is another guest post from Germany by Markus, the guy who runs Shirtspotting [to see Markus' last guest post for Fantastic Blognanza, click here]. Yes, it’s been a while, but I’d like to present you another nice tee shop from Germany I found that you might like. Actually, I didn’t find them, they contacted me, which is always a good idea if you have a little shop that deserves attention.
Bloodgold Clothing is one such case. They started their shop in 2006 and have already gotten a little coverage on the blog scene. One thing that makes them different is their experimentation with print positions. Their small neat designs are draped around the neck or on the shoulders … who says the print always has to be on the chest?
Swing at Bloodgold: €29.00
I particularly like Swing: a cassette (you can’t go wrong with tapes anyway!) out of which the tape hangs, goes up to the collar and on the back of the neck there’s a little girl using it as a swing. Neat. So when Benny from Bloodgold kindly offered to send me a shirt, I went for this one. Here’s some photos of it. I totally suck at taking photos and so does my cam. Please excuse this.
Anyway, what I found:
Feel: this shirt is one of the softest and best-feeling I ever wore. It’s silky smooth and it has a great cut, too. I can’t tell exactly what brand of blanks they use, it can’t be American Apparel.
Print: Different from most labels, the designs are not screenprinted but flex printed, which means that they are cut from flex foil and heat pressed to the shirt. On mine you can see this by a bit of foil slightly sticking out at the collar (seen here) … but don’t worry, you can’t peel it off and it’s not disturbing.
Number of people telling me they liked it when wearing it the first day: Three, which is quite a good ratio.
They have some other nice shirts, too, like Alter Ego, a face that watches your back for you. In sum, Bloodgold is really worth checking out.
That’s it for today, I hope the next guest post won’t take so long.
Link: [Swing at Bloodgold]
Expensiveness: €29.00
Thanks for the guest post, Markus! Be sure to check out his German t-shirt blog, Shirtspotting.
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A sort of PS:
After writing this, Benny told me they use Continental and American Apparel as shirts. So, maybe it is AA after all, it feels slightly thicker than usual AA, anyway it’s great.
And he added they’re working on having own shirts and other apparel in the future. OK, that’s it.
Thanks for the update! I think this one is Continental, judging by the photos you took.
hi everyone,
to give some specific information i could answer some questions myself.in fact this and most of our tee’s are continental clothing. some cuts and colors are added by AA.
We do like the quality and the feel of the garments with a 100% cotton shirt. Thanks a lot for the nice support and check back for our next works so we can keep on bringin up new stuff.
New designs and prints will be comming quite soon.
We will keep up with the flex prints as well since it is certain that this method delivers a high quality and gives our designs an own character.
benny - bloodgold.de
Really cool t shirt pictured with the tape cassette. I think you called it swing but what definately makes it is the fact that it is around the neck of the shirt. Really cool idea. Thanks