Red Earth

I have perhaps an unusual question that I don't think has been discussed before. I ordered some "Perma-twill" material to laser cut transfers. It's cool stuff and cuts beautifully. However, I am somewhat stuck on a good way to get the transfer on the shirt. I would like to be able to do more complicated designs, but I don't want to lay out all the little pieces of the transfers by hand either.
If this were vinyl material cut on the plotter for a sign, I would use transfer paper to keep the layout straight.

Is there some obvious easy way to do this that I am missing? Is there a transfer method that will preserve the design layout and survive the heat press (and the laser)?

Appreciate the help!

 

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stuffnthingz

I know that others with more experience will have the definitive solution, but I wonder if you could try putting the twill on rhinestone masking plastic (it is two parts, plastic with a white backing), then you cut (depth would need to be set correctly), weed out your design leaving the part you want transfered on the plastic, then you can put this back on the white half if you want to store it, or you can go right to pressing, the issue I see with this is how sticky the plastic is, if it is too sticky then your twill will be hard to peel apart from the plastic. I would be experimenting with this since I have tons of the rhinestone masking tape around...

Perhaps there is a fabric masking that is made for this type of work.

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Red Earth

Well, just tried using regular vinyl transfer mask just to see what would happen. I cut the design in the laser, applied the mask, weeded the design, stuck mask and design on shirt and pressed!
I was using a very dark shirt and white Perma-Twill so I fingured if any gum from the paper would be an issue, I would be able to see it. Long story short, it seemed to work nicely. No gummy residue on either white or dark fabric. The mask peeled easily after pressing and didn't get too hot.

Anyone else have tips? This has to be a similar issue with other Cad-Cut materials thermally applied?

 

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