Colortone

Colortone is a dyed-garment range: T-shirts, hoodies and shirts in tie-dye and dip-dye finishes, where the pattern is part of the garment rather than something applied to it.

What the range covers

This page holds the Colortone lines The Stitch Factory stocks: four T-shirts, a denim jacket, a hoodie and a shirt. The tie-dye T-shirt is the centre of it, in short sleeve, and the hoodie and the shirt carry the same dyed finish on a heavier garment. It is a short range, so if you want a plain apparel blank to print instead, our Gildan and Comfort Colors pages have far more on them.

How a dyed garment behaves

No two dyed garments come out quite the same, so a tie-dye order will have some variation across the batch, which is normally the reason people choose it. That variation is the product. A tie-dye shirt is made by tying or folding the garment before the dye goes on, which is where the swirl, the spiral and the banded patterns come from, and the fold is never repeated exactly. Colours are vibrant rather than muted, because the point of the finish is contrast. Each product page gives the garment, the pattern name and the colour for that style, and the sizes it comes in.

Who it suits

This is the range we quote for festivals and outdoor events, for summer schools, youth and scout camps, for charity and fundraising days, for bands and merchandise, and for a shop that wants a garment that looks hand-made on the rail. It is not a workwear or a uniform range — a dyed garment is chosen to be noticed, which is the opposite of what a staff shirt is usually for.

Printed or embroidered in Sheffield

Every item here can be printed or embroidered with your design, done in-house at our Sheffield works. A dyed background changes how a print reads, because the ink sits on a pattern rather than on a flat colour, so a fine or pale design can disappear into a swirl. We will advise on the ink colour and on whether a light-coloured base or an outline is needed, and a stitched logo is the other way to go — embroidery sits on top of the dye and keeps its edges whatever the pattern underneath is doing. Browse the range below, or send us your artwork through Request a Quote.