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American-made blanks  •  Decorated in Colorado Springs  •  Preview — not taking orders yet

Patriot Shop · A Patriot Projects LLC company

You pick it.
Somebody here makes it.

Choose the garment, choose where the artwork sits on it, then choose the design and the ink. The blanks are cut and sewn in the United States and the decorating is done in Colorado Springs — not drop-shipped from a warehouse that has never seen the goods.

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This is a preview, not a store.

Everything below works — you can build any combination and see it recoloured as you go. What you cannot do is buy it. Nothing here has a price yet, because the blanks and the decorating are still being quoted by the people who actually make them, and a price invented before then would be a guess dressed up as a number. There is no cart and no checkout on this page. When it opens, it opens with real prices.

Build it

Pick a product. The options change with it — a sticker has nowhere to "place" a logo, so it does not pretend to.

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      How it is made

      The blank matters as much as the print

      Cut and sewn in the United States. The shirt bodies are US Blanks, made in Los Angeles. Hats are Unionwear, union made in Newark. Stickers are printed by StickerGiant in Longmont, Colorado. Where a blank is only partly domestic, this page says so rather than rounding it up.
      Decorated by one shop, not a network. Printing, embroidery and patches are done by Alpine Arrows Design in Colorado Springs. One shop means one person answerable for the quality, which is the entire reason not to use a print-on-demand network.
      Artwork is never scaled by the customer. Each placement has one fixed size, set to the platen and hoop that actually exist. You choose where a design goes, not how big it gets — which is why nothing arrives stretched, pixellated or printed across a seam.
      No price until somebody quotes it. Not one figure on this page is estimated. That is also why the shop is shut.

      Why some designs disappear when you change an option

      Switch a patch to Embroidered and several designs grey out. That is not a bug and it is not arbitrary.

      Every design was measured

      Each master was scanned to find its finest line — the thinnest stroke anywhere in the artwork, as a fraction of its overall width. Ring text on a seal is very fine. A heavy stencil wordmark is not.

      Every process has a floor

      A stitch will not hold below about a millimetre. A vinyl cut that thin tears when it is weeded. Laser etching into leather is the finest of them. Each process has a known thinnest line it can actually reproduce.

      So the maths decides

      Printed four inches wide, a design's finest stroke is four inches times that fraction. If that comes out below the process floor, the combination is not offered — because it would arrive as mush, and you would be right to send it back.

      A worked example: the globe seal needs about 18 inches to embroider legibly, which is wider than a shirt — so it is never offered embroidered. Laser-etched into leather the same seal needs 5.5 inches, so a six-inch leather patch works. The page runs that check as you click; the server runs it again before anything could ever be charged.