Children's Blank T-shirt Wholesalers
Blank children's t-shirts and infant blanks for screen printers, embroiderers and decorators
A blank t-shirt is an undecorated garment sold ready for printing, embroidery or other embellishment, and children's sizes are a specialty of their own: the garments are smaller, the fabrics are softer, and the buyers — screen printers, embroiderers, school and team outfitters, and sellers of decorated children's clothing — need consistent colours and sizes they can reorder. This directory lists children's blank t-shirt wholesalers, from a kids t-shirt specialist carrying leading brands such as Gildan, Anvil and Delta, through a vertically integrated manufacturer making its own labels, to the premium blank specialists whose preemie, infant and toddler garments in soft interlock cotton are made for silk screening, embroidery and sublimation. The printed t-shirt wholesalers page linked below covers the decorated side of the same trade.
Children's Blank T-shirt Guides and Resources
Children's Blank T-shirt Wholesalers
The Adair Group
Wholesale kids t-shirts: a wide variety of wholesale kids t-shirts from leading brands including Gildan, Anvil and Delta, in both short sleeve and long sleeve shirts and all the popular colours. All of their kids tees are sourced in bulk in order to offer the cheapest prices, and new styles and colours are constantly being added.
Alstyle Apparel
Alstyle Apparel and Activewear is a vertically integrated manufacturer and distributor of t-shirts and various fleece goods throughout the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Alstyle began business in 1976 in Chicago as a small importer of t-shirts for local screen printers and quickly grew to become the largest distributor of Fruit of the Loom and Hanes products. In 1990, Alstyle started producing its own line of high-quality t-shirts under the Murina label, soon expanding with the introduction of the AAA, Gaziani, as well as many other labels. Today, Alstyle Apparel has production facilities throughout the U.S. and Mexico, operates with a quick-turn-around philosophy, and runs convenient distribution centers located in California, Chicago, Atlanta, Texas, Philadelphia, Canada and Europe. Its garments are made from U.S. yarn grown, spun, knitted and dyed in the USA, then cut and sewn either in the U.S., Mexico or the Caribbean Basin. As well as producing its own label garments, Alstyle has an extensive private label and re-label program. In 2004, they merged with Ennis. Categories: adult blank t-shirt wholesaler; children's blank t-shirt wholesaler.
Jiffy Shirts
Wholesaler and retailer of blank shirts. No minimums.
Kidsblanks by Zoey (USA)
Distributor and manufacturer of wholesale premium quality blanks of preemie, infant and toddler clothing in various knits and wonderful colours. Specialising in 100% soft interlock knit cotton, 6.4 oz/sq yd weight, perfect for silk screen printing and embroidery, and a blend of polyester and cotton 5.4 oz/sq yd interlock knit for embroidery, silk screening and sublimation printing. The Laughing Giraffe brand consists of infant layette clothing: onepiece items, tank tops, t-shirts, receiving blankets, hooded towels, bibs, burp cloths, lap tees, short and long sleeve onesies, beanies, and hats and booties. Kidsblanks offers a one-stop service of infant and toddler blanks with quality silk screening and sublimation printing. Address: 888 LAYETTE, 1412 E Borchard Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705. Email: Orders@kidsblanks.com. Phone: 714-966-2396.
Wholesale Baby Blanks
Distributor and manufacturer of wholesale blank baby clothing. High quality 100% soft cotton, 6.1 oz weight, interlock, perfect for silk screen printing and embroidery. Their infant layette clothing collection includes onepiece items, tank tops, t-shirts, side gowns, cardigans, blankets, receiving blankets, hooded towels, bath robes, keepsake blankie, bibs, caps, hats and booties. They offer wholesale baby clothes with no minimum purchase amount. Address: 23354 Toronja Corte, Corona, CA 92883. Phone: US Toll Free (800) 707-9692, International 001 951 603 0921. Email: sales@wholesalebabyblanks.com. Contact: Ed Post. Categories: wholesaler baby clothing; manufacturer children's clothing; wholesale blank shirts - kids.
Why Children's Blanks Are a Specialty, Not Just Smaller Adult Blanks
A blank children's t-shirt has to do the same decorating job as an adult blank — take a screen print, an embroidery stitch or a sublimation transfer evenly and hold it through washing — in a garment a fraction of the size, cut for a child's proportions and made in fabrics chosen for softness. The specialists on this page show the two ends of the specialty. At the t-shirt end, The Adair Group and Alstyle supply kids tees from the major blank brands and from Alstyle's own labels, in short and long sleeves and the popular colours, with the distribution depth a printer needs for reorders. At the infant end, Kidsblanks by Zoey and Wholesale Baby Blanks make preemie, infant and toddler blanks — onesies, lap tees, bibs, blankets and booties — in soft interlock cotton at stated fabric weights, because a decorated baby garment is judged on its hand feel as much as its print.
Fabric Weight, Knit and Print Method: Reading the Listings
The listings state the facts a decorator buys on. Fabric weight is given in ounces per square yard — 6.4 oz interlock cotton for the Kidsblanks range, 6.1 oz for Wholesale Baby Blanks — and heavier interlock gives a smoother, more stable print surface than a light jersey. The knit matters for the method: cotton interlock suits silk screen printing and embroidery, while the polyester-cotton interlock blend in the Kidsblanks range is the one made for sublimation printing as well. Jiffy Shirts takes the opposite approach to range, selling blank shirts with no minimums, which suits a small decorator testing a design. A buyer should match the garment to the decoration method first, then compare colours, sizes and minimums.
Blanks, Printed Tees and the Rest of the Imprintable Trade
Blank and printed children's t-shirts are two halves of one trade, and the two directory pages are linked at the top of this page for that reason: blanks are the undecorated input, printed tees are the finished product. The fashion blanks and blank t-shirts term links explain the vocabulary, the adult size blank t-shirt wholesalers page covers the same suppliers' grown-up ranges for a decorator working across sizes, and the corporate apparel directory lists the distributors of blank garments for company clothing, where children's sizes occasionally join a family or school order.
Common Questions
What is a blank children's t-shirt?
It is an undecorated t-shirt in a children's size, sold wholesale ready for a buyer to add decoration — screen printing, embroidery, heat transfer or sublimation. Blank specialists state the fabric and weight, such as soft interlock cotton at 6.1 or 6.4 oz per square yard, because those facts decide how well the garment prints.
Which blank should a decorator choose for sublimation printing?
Sublimation needs a polyester content, so a polyester-cotton interlock blend — such as the 5.4 oz/sq yd interlock in the Kidsblanks by Zoey range, made for embroidery, silk screening and sublimation — is the suitable choice. Pure cotton blanks suit screen printing and embroidery instead.
Are there minimum orders for children's blanks?
It varies by supplier. Wholesale Baby Blanks offers wholesale baby clothes with no minimum purchase amount, and Jiffy Shirts sells blank shirts with no minimums, while brand distributors may pack by the dozen or case — each listing states the position where the company gives one.