Help! I am out of t-shirts!!!

[Greg Muller]

After too many recent finishing jobs, I am totally out of old, lintless t-shirts. I even raided the closets of my wife and kids. There's not a t-shirt left in the house and the wife drew the line after her recent re-stock.

I bought that bag-of-rags and box-of-rags before, but they had too much lint and loose threads for finishing, IMO.

So, I actually have to buy some good rags.

Where do you get yours? What brand/type?

Help please. If I need to order these online, i hope they can get to me fast!

Greg

[Rich Engelhardt]

Hello,
Check out the local Jo~Ann fabric store.

[mike holden]

The Borg has t-shirt material. If you unfold it you can see where the t-shirt was cut out of it. Price seems reasonable.
Mike

[Jim Becker]

Well....I don't use cloth. I use the Scott's paper product in the square yellow and blue dispenser box from the borg. Lint free and soft.

[glenn bradley]

99 cent store fabric scraps, JoAnnes, etc. during sales if you need cloth. Like Jim, I use Costco's brand paper towels for shellac and such. Cloth for dyes.

[Jim Tobias]

Greg, A few years back I was talking to a lady that runs a screen printing business. I found out that you can buy tons of "unsellable" t-shirts for next to nothing. It seems that there are often overruns that are no longer of any value and they will sell them very cheaply(as in $5 for a big bag of t-shirts).
I would think if you asked around at a few screen printing places and ask for their left overs you might find a deal or two.

Jim

[John Keeton]

I'm with Becker - those Scott paper rags are "good for what ails ya'." I use them for just about everything, and abandoned trying to use rags. I found that with rags, I would hang on to them too long and contaminate them with something. Too much tendency to pick up that rag laying on the bench and not recalling, or caring, what I had last used it for.

[Jim Becker]

Please note that the "paper rags" I'm referring to are white and soft...not the blue shop towels.

[Steve Clardy]

I get whites by the box full at the local used clothes place for the needy.

3-4 bucks for clean, already cut up white T-shirts.

[John Keeton]

Please note that the "paper rags" I'm referring to are white and soft...not the blue shop towels.

Ditto! Plus, my wife likes them for her crafty type things she does.

[mark page]

And too, if you can get a good deal on "cloth baby diapers". They make good lint free rags. They are getting harder to find these last 10 yrs or so. They also make great buffing cloths.

[Bob Rufener]

Find your nearest Goodwill, St Vincent DePaul or other charitable store and buy a bag of rags for about $3.00. Will last a long time.