Male: What is up everyone Bob Nanna right here welcome to Threadheads.
Female: This week we are Chicago, Illinois hanging out with threadless head headquarters.
Male: Let’s go check it out.
Male: Hey, Threadheads, what is happening? We are hear at the thread headquarters, I am Bob and I have promotions and sponsorships here and I also work with TV. It was started in 2000. It started actually on a separate design forum called dream list and I am at design forum. Jake and Jake Dehart met and actually submitted a t-shirt design for this special one time contest that they were having and Jake actually won this particular contest. It really gave them he idea to start doing this on their own so they started to start on this. It was built on the idea of creating a community driven website where artist can submit their art or other artist.
So I am talking about working both on the art and then eventually wear the art on a t-shirt. That is when you go to threadless.com and you got all the choices and you can just go on and buy some shirts and check out the cool designs or you could go on both on some of these submitted designs or you could submit me your own designs and then given a week and we usually receive about 800 submissions and we are deciding which ones to choose to print. Obviously score comes into play and some of the comments come into play and obviously we are able to see how well the design would look on a t-shirt.
When the designs are chosen to be printed t-shirts the artist receives $2,000 a $500 gift certificate that they can redeem for $200 more so putting $200 cash or $2000 cash plus $500 gift card. In reality a lot of the artist that have been printed often go on to more work some even developed their own clothing lines based on their exposure on Threadless it is really important to us to nurture the growth and all of these artists. I asked Threadless as we up having the price money because we really respect other artists and want to give them what they deserve.
Threadless Tee-V is a little division of Threadless that we started in March. We just wanted to explore some of the good fast tracks of Threadless and we need some more people. This is the warehouse where we pull out the orders and ship all the orders and do all the mailing and fun mailing stuff. This pro-bowler game was a gift from our printers and I will take you back here where Joe are resident graffiti artist does these panels for the store. So every week he does a different panel featuring elements from the shirts that come out that week so this hangout from the store.
Male: My name is Joe Suta, I am the resident artist for Threadless and this is my office. This paint panel just hangout and just work on stuff to just kind paint things all day. I was getting on everyone’s way when I was painting the panels and what I was just doing because basically I am using all the materials in front of me and just painting and sort of like this office so I got an office and let me doing on line with that and all the panel. They all have cluttered in.
Male: In September 2007, we opened our first retail location here in Chicago and wanted it to be more than just a store. It went like to be a cool place for people to come and celebrate their community aspect of the website but in the real place.
Female: I am Donella and I am the manager here at the Threadless Store. It literally blew up online and I thought what next? So we opened a store we are in the laky neighborhood of Chicago. We opened this store in September and we came in with a bang. We did this huge grand opening party at the Metro. We only stacked 20 designs at a time. We are constantly rotating the designs out. We do put out each 10 new shirts every weekend and we put those out here in the store on Fridays before they hit the website on Monday.
Andy Mogel this one is for you. I am totally getting this shirt for Eric Beck. I better see you wearing it on the show.
Male: We are here live. Did I get through here? I am very interested in this topic of tonight so let me get down to real business.
Female: My Lana, I am creating biscuits stitched and I was just wondering what to do with this t-shirt. I want to be sowing it so it is smaller and I also wanted to do something about this neck. It is so annoying trying to pull it over your head especially with glass. Thanks you guys rock.
Female: Biscuit Stitch, we found the perfect tutorial for you over on the Threadbanger forums. Intangibly honored discovered and tour from our fashion week episode God inspired by one of the pieces on our website and made it. I bet she made a tutorial and shared it. So we are going to take an old T that Threadless donated to us and shared it with everybody else.
First cut the sleeves of your and T and seam it all. Then cut the scoop neck but be careful not to cut it too big. Be conservative. Now cut the bottom half off about 2-1/2 inches below the armpit. Turn it inside out pinch pins, and sew and cut of the excess and so it fits you better. Trimmed on the shoulder area then cut up the middle. Take out the bottom half of your shirt or an old scrap of contrasting color, cut it open, fold it in half lengthwise pin and iron the fold.
Now place the body piece on top and use the length of your zipper to determine how wide to cut the bottom. Make sure to leave a little extra for seam allowance. Sow the bottom piece together and pin it right sides together to the bottom of the body. Cut off the excess and sow it together using a zigzag stitch. Fold the bottom piece down and sow it top stitch along the bottom of the body. Take out another strap piece and do the same thing you did to the bottom piece but on the smaller scale and attach it to the collar.
Get out of the sleeve and cut the seams of both sides. They are a little tricky to attach but just take your time. Pin it on the right sides together starting at the top and working you way down both sides one at the time until you get to the armpit. Pinch and pin the excess of the sleeve. Sow along the pin line and cut off the remainder. Now pin the armpit together and sow the sleeve on. Cut of the excess fabric and press the seam open on the inside and sow both sides.
Add trim to the sleeves like you did the collar and you are almost done. Just put on your zipper foot and place the zipper on one side of the body and right sides together. Sow it on. Sow a top stitch down the front and repeat to the other side. Now put it on and go show all your friends. Got a question? Leave it in the comments below.
Male: So folks over at Threadless hooked us up with a gift certificate for one free t-shirt and we are giving it away to one of you lucky Threadheads. All you got to do is send us in a video tutorial of your favorite T-shirt recon.
Female: You are going to get a Threadless t-shirt, a Threadbanger t-shirt, and your lesson featured on the future episode of Threadheads. So get those cameras rolling and upload your videos and Threadbanger.com.
Male; I got something you want to see made for this summer. Hit us up in the comments below.
Female: Until next week, see you.
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