Thirty five materials for branded merchandise

Materials | 35 pages

Materials and how they take a mark

Choose a material and read how it is decorated, how it wears and what it does to the minimum order.

Material choice decides the decoration method more often than the other way round. Aluminium takes a laser engraving that reveals the raw metal under the anodised layer and reads as a permanent mark at a minimum of 50 pieces. Cotton takes a screen print or an embroidery digitisation, and a woven in logo needs 250 pieces to justify its setup. Glass and ceramic want UV printing, which starts at 25 pieces.

The range covers natural fibres and man made ones: organic cotton, recycled cotton, merino and alpaca wool, linen, hemp, jute, bamboo and bagasse fibre, alongside recycled polyester, regenerated polyester, ocean bound plastic, bioplastics, silicone, steel, aluminium, glass, ceramic, cork and wood. Each page states where the material comes from and what certificate it carries.

Pricing is in EUR excluding 23% IVA, and the minimum order depends on the decoration rather than on the material itself. Where a material supports a recycled or a certified claim, the certificate and its scope are named on the page, because a claim that cannot be traced is a liability rather than a feature.