About « October T shirt Printing

About

What do we do?

October is a t shirt printing, embroidery and screen printing service supplier. We also source a wide range of clothing and accessories. Specialising in t shirt printing.

What is this site about?

Lets just say its our scrapbook. Our articles, views and reviews about anything interesting enough to comment on in the garment decoration and clothing design sector.

Why should you use this site?

If you are in or interested in fashion, clothing design, garment decorating, or just like to look good and you have something to say then this site is for you. We have given our views, tell us yours.

Our profile

It all started 15 years ago. Paul finished a degree in obscure eastern religions, and was surprised to find he couldn’t get a job. Not a problem, a friend had a sewing machine, and while waiting for publishers to stop laughing at his first novel, he decided to make a few loud shirts for pleasure and profit. But interesting fabric was hard to come by, so after a collection made from saris and African headdress material, he decided to print his own designs. Limping into NottinghamTrent University after a nasty gardening accident, he found his way to the Textile Department, met Jane, and told her a pack of lies about how successful his designs would be if only he knew how to print fabric.An award winning designer, she explained how it all works, just before developing an interest in accounts. Jane now spends most days investigating petrol station receipts, and asking Paul why he was buying a bacon sandwich and a copy of the Racing Post on the wrong side of town at 3 am. In the meantime people started saying, ‘You can print and embroider logos, I need some shirts by Friday’.This was a bit inconvenient, we were younger then and expected the catwalks of Paris and Milan, but when you’re broke, 50 T-shirts for Dave’s garage is a bonus.

Things moved on, and although we still do stuff for Dave, we started to print and embroider workwear for industry, clothing ranges for fashion, streetwear and retail, promotional merchandise for charities and the music industry, uniforms and schoolwear etc. So you need more staff, and along came Matt - signed up at 16 before he got good exam results and realised he could have made some serious money elsewhere (sorry mate). He’s been with us 8 years and just grows with the business. From 50 shirts an hour on a Victorian machine back then, to 800 shirts an hour on automated kit today - a Nottingham Forest supporter and member of the Ford KA owners club, he knows how to laugh in the face of adversity.And his trusty side-kick Craig - a teacher told him on leaving school he’d be dead or in prison within a year. That was years ago, he’s still here, and the teacher’s most likely on playground duty. Hobbies include discussing print techniques with directors of multi national companies, and purchasing over-priced knitwear.

The Mr Spock of the ship is Fardad, in charge of technology, marketing, and attempting to fit satellite navigation systems to classic cars. Fardad left Iran when he was 8 years old in search of a better paid paper round, and only goes home to get cheap carpets. Without him we’d still be receiving artwork by carrier pigeon. Every office needs discipline, and we’ve got Ann, the Hyacynthe Bouquet of the clothing industry. In a bold move on her first day, she devised a hoovering rota to cover 4000 square feet of industrial space, and insisted that all employees carry a clean handkerchief - when your order arrives in the right place at the right time, she’s the reason why.And that, give or take a litre of ink and a few thousand stitches of embroidery, is us.