Another cool product from our LavaLab. These custom made hoodies for OAM Sports Academy are fresh, funky and too cool for school!

OAM Sports Academey 240 gram LavaLab Hoody

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If you love jazzy vibes and cool music, then you’ve gotta listen to Ivan Mazuze.

About Mazuze:

Ivan Mazuze, Mozambican, Cape Town based saxophonist, has an extensively musical experience with South African internationally acclaimed artists such as Jonathan Butler, Jimmy Dludlu, Hotep Galeta as well as top bands such as Dondo, Tucan Tucan and Loading Zone to name but a few. Ivan Mazuze’s debut album entitled Maganda (2008) has diverse styles with strong influence on African music.

taken from ivanmazuzemusic.com

Check out these funky slim-fit tees that we did for Mr. Mazuze.

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2 colours, screen printed on the front

2 colours, screen printed on the back

Recipe for these great, 100 % customised t shirts

• Excellent ingredients
• Good preparation
• Perfect timing
• Garnish to perfection

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We didn’t help put Humpty together again… but we gave him stitches and printing.

Humpty Dumpty embroidered golf shirt

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These 160 gram t shirts for Touch Lezinto are light, soft and fitted. It has a single colour screen print on the front of the tee and a single colour on the rear.

This is our second job for Stellenbosch University’s Geology Department (see the first job here). These hoodies were developed from scratch in our LavaLab.

The specifications given were:

• Unisex hoodies
• luxurious 240 gram soft-touch fleece in red and black
• lined hoods
• hoods had to be larger that normal
• drawstring waist
• drawstring hood
• kangaroo pocket
• inset pen pocket with vertical zip
• self fabric cuffs (ie. polar fleece cuffs)
• branding on chest, sleeve and lower back

Below  is the end result and you may check out some more pics on our portfolio page.

red polar fleece hooded top

22 seconds of Factory life

Here’s a behind the scenes look at  t shirt manufacturing – a 22 second glimpse of our CMT (Cut, Make, Trim) factory.

The garment in this video, is  in the previous post about LavaLab designer wear. This factory has, and is still producing for companies like Truworths, so the quality is top-notch and that’s why we use them.

Straight from the LavaLab, these 230 gram ladies tops are creatively fresh and make a bold statement with its shocking pink trims. Loudgear (our client) designed these tops to ensure  that the Queens of  Tugwell Hall at UCT are hip and happening – but this was a task intensive process that had us biting our nails right up to the last minute because of its extremely tight deadline.

Here’s a summarized version of what happened:

1. We developed patterns from scratch according to the client’s specification and size curve
2. sourced 230 gram ribbed fabric (black) at a price that was good enough to maintain the client’s budget
3. dyed the pink fabric according to clients specification
4. supplied fit samples
5. processed artwork for screen printing
6. processed artwork for digitizing
7. cut and soabarred the garment panels to ensure that all panels and sizes were easily identifiable
8. pre-planned printing and embroidery to ensure consistency in  colours for printed and embroidered finishes i.e. the print colours had to match the embroidered colours.
9. also ensuring that the sizing of the print and embroidered logos were suitable for all the garment sizes (small to 3 Xlarge)
10. sent the appropriate panels for printing (2 colours sleeve, 2 colours back)
11. sent the panels for embroidery
12. assembled the garments
13. quality checked and removed rejects
14. ironed and flat-packed
15. re-did  all rejects.

All of this in 16 days.

The result is a beautifully mass produced garment that could be mistaken for something that was bought from a designer store like YDE or Lacoste.

PS. Apologies for the low quality images