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Custom Sample Fabrics

Test Print Textile Samples Made in the UK

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Custom sample fabrics allow you to see the amazing reproduction quality of your own graphics on wide range...

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Ships in 1 - 2 days

Ships in 1 - 2 days

Production time: Ships in 1 - 2 days

Delivery time: 1-3 days, several options available.

We are fast, and print most products in one day if you order before 12:00pm. Excludes delivery time.
UK delivery: £4.95
UK delivery: £4.95
- UK delivery: £4.95
- Western European: £14
- Other European: £14
- North America: £14
- Australia / Japan: £18
- Rest Of The World: £18
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Printed Samples Features

Order sample sizes 20cm x 20cm / 8" x 8"
Choice of huge range of tried and trusted fabrics
Add your image and get a fabric sample print
Three-year guarantee
£10 voucher with first test print order*
Try fabrics before you place big orders

Order a Swatchpack

3” printed squares of our entire fabric range, to see and feel the quality. Request a swatchpack

Order a sample

Order a small sample of your design, or choose from our pre-designed colour charts. Print fabric sample

Product information

Order your Test Prints with us and get a £10 gift voucher to use on your next fabric order.

Voucher cannot be used for test prints or samples. Offer for new customers only and can only be used once. Voucher expires after 30 days. Your test print textile samples allow you to test how your own artwork, patterns or drawings will look on various fabrics. You could be looking to make your own fashion, so see how a colourful design will look and if it matches your vision. There are so many things you can use printed samples for, and it really gives you a clear picture of how your finished project will look and feel.

Choice of 100+ fabrics
£10 voucher with first test print order*
Ideal 'try before you buy'
Dye sublimation on poly fabrics
Pigment printing for natural fabrics
Three-year guarantee on the print and material

Fabric Sample Prints Sizes

Sample 20cm x 20cm / 8" x 8"

Remnants: We would rather give them to you to use than throw them out. If you order and collect your samples, you are welcome to ask for fabric remnants. We can give you a 2kg-5kg bag for free if you can make use of them. Just ask.

Guaranteed: Three-year guarantee on fabric structure on all materials. Three-year print guarantee on dye sublimation printing for long-lasting colour (excludes natural fibres printed with pigment printing)

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How we make it

Made with as much care as a full-size print

For your printed fabric samples you choose which fabric you want to see your original design printed on to, and we expertly print. For poly fabrics, we use specialist dye sublimation printing, which fuses the ink deep into the fibres of the material. For all 100% natural fabrics, we use pigment printing. The print on natural fabrics is beautiful, as they retain their base tone and have a soft, more muted colour reproduction due to the natural fibres. This results in a charming, authentic print. Dye-sublimation printing on poly fabrics produces vibrant, bold and sharp colours, however, each fabric will look different based on the tightness of the weave and the yarns used. This is why sample fabrics are so good, as you get to feel the fabric and see the print quality.

Your fabric sample is sent "As it is" which means that when your sample is printed we will loosely cut around the edges. Therefore the print that you will receive will be the entire fabric piece with your print on it and a potential small border of the plain fabric around the edges.

Design tips

Uploading tips

When uploading an image into our size sample preview, your image will be resized to fit the dimensions you have selected. If you upload a very large file, it will be reduced to the size of the sample ordered. If you require a crop at actual size, we recommend you size your file before uploading to ensure the dimensions are not changed. As these sample prints are generally small, we do not recommend uploading files larger than 5mb.

When selecting either Pima Lawn, Cotton Linen or Janice Poplin Cotton please be aware that due to the nature of the fabric and our reactive printing process there can be occasional very small white dots where pieces of cotton fluff are removed revealing unprinted white base material. Please note that this is normal and cannot be avoided but won't affect the strong colours and detailed nature of your print.

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Print Guidelines

Print Guideline

What resolution is best for printing?

All of our fabrics are printed at 200dpi. This works for us as it combines a great quality as we as a good file weight. In order to avoid resizing and interpolation, we recommend that you scale your image to 100% at 200dpi. Our design interface works with a traffic light system that acts as a quality marker for your designs. This will show you whether the resolution is too low for printing. When you re-upload your design with a highest resolution, the traffic lights will change colour, showing you're good to go. A message will pop up alongside the traffic lights to let you know if the resolution is too low or if you have a good quality image.
Will my image be scaled to fit?

Your uploaded design will automatically be scaled to fit the size of fabric you've chosen. You can change the dimensions of your fabric by amending the measurements on the ‘Product Options’ tab, under ‘Print Size’. To see how this fits with the dimensions of your image/design, you can refer to the ‘Images & Text Tools’ tab under 'Quality Information'. Here, you will be able to edit the dimensions of the image.
Should I choose RGB or CMYK?

We always recommend using an RGB colour space when you upload your images. More specifically, we suggest using the sRGB image profile, to achieve best colour results. This will need to be done in your editing software; choose RGB as the working space, and assign the image profile as sRGB (full name sRGB IEC61966-2.1)
Is there a maximum length I can print on?

There is no length limit for most of our fabrics. Our preview design window is set up to displaying a maximum of 10m to help you visualise the print, but that doesn't mean this is the print limit. If you'd like to order more, you can increase the quantity (x2 for 20m or x4 for 40m for example) and order as much as you'd like. Larger volumes will receive an automatic discount too. While the fabric length is nothing to worry about, each individual fabric will have a maximum width side: These can be found on the fabric's page information or in the design interface.
Should I add white space for borders or cutting onto my design?

Yes, that will help you when it comes to cutting or framing your printed fabric. We recommend always adding a little extra space for borders into your purchased fabric size. When we print your materials, or send out fabric samples, we typically trim squarely around the fabric, leaving approximately 5mm white space. Cutting neatly on the line has an additional fee.
What is crocking?

Crocking is the term used to describe fading along the creases in a fabric. It typically can occur after constant washing or heavy use of digitally printed natural fabrics. Crocking can be minimised by hand washing your fabrics at a cooler temperature, rather than machine washing. If you want to make sure there's no chance of crocking, we'd suggest you use a poly fabric.
Is it normal for colours to appear lighter on organic fabrics?

Yes, our organic fabrics don't have an additional coating like non-organic fabrics have, which means it absorbs the inks deep into its fibre and reducing the colour strength slightly (this can be approximately -40%). If you would like a bolder, more vibrant colour for your fabric, we would suggest using a non-organic fabric.
Can I supply my own fabric for you to print onto?

Unfortunately not; all of our fabrics have been tested meticulously to ensure we know exactly how to get the best results, and our facilities cater perfectly to them. If you are set on a fabric we don't offer, we can offer custom printed sublimation paper to order which will allow you to heat press your designs onto your own fabrics.
Which is a better image format: TIFF or JPEG?

If your design is simple and less intricate, a JPEG will be absolutely fine. However, if you have created a design with multi-coloured detailing, we would recommend saving your design in a TIFF format.
Will my material shrink during printing?

Similar to other fabric printing processes, shrinkage can occur. The amount of shrinkage will depend on the fabric, but as a general rule of thumb, please allow for 2-8% shrinkage when working out your measurements. Shrinkage is not an exact science, and the amount of shrinkage will vary from print run to print run. We'd always suggest order a little more than you need for your project.
Can I order double sided printed fabric?

Many of the fabrics we offer are semi-transparent, so printing on both sides of the fabric is not a service we offer.
Can I order labels in a different fabric? Are the labels cut like normal fabric labels?

At the moment, all of our fabric labels are printed on satin fabric. For now, we believe this is the best choice, but will potentially introduce other options in the future. All labels are cut to the same label format. If you would like to choose a different fabric and format for your labels, you could always order a sheet of the fabric of your choice to create labels yourself.
How do you print your fabrics in an eco-friendly way?

Our fabrics are printed with water-based inks as environmental consciousness is always front of our minds. Water-based inks include no chemicals or solvents, and our printing process uses heat to fix colours and patterns into place to avoid excess or contaminated water returning into the water system (this is something that can occur through steaming). All printing, fulfilment and production is done in our one facility in London, and rather than rolling the fabrics or sending them in a tube, you will receive your material folded up. This amounts to 150 tubes saved a week, as well as much more space on the delivery van for more orders. (For delicate fabrics we ensure to package appropriately).
Will there be slight colour differences between my orders?

Although very rare, there could be a slight colour difference from one print run to another. This is a normal part of the printing process, however we are always working to improve our colour profiles. It is unlikely that the difference in print runs will be hugely different (for example, it's unlikely your orange is suddenly going to be red). The likelihood of colour variations can be intensified fabric to fabric due to materials having different grains and textures; natural fabrics typically have more muted colour tones, while poly alternatives have a bolder hue. This is because the construction of the material is different, and the printing method has to be altered slightly for more delicate, natural textiles.

Sizing For Hemming And Shrinkage

Our full cut & sew service at Bags of Love can be used to your full advantage. We even offer hemming for your fabrics at a small additional cost. Our hems are created with a one or two cold hem that typically uses around 5 to 20mm of fabric (depending on the thickness of your chosen material). Please bare this in mind when you are ordering your printed fabric with hems: If you would like your finished piece to be 100cm x 100cm, change your dimensions to 101.5cm instead to allow space for your hems (you will also need to include additional for potential shrinkage). The thicker the fabric, the bigger the hem will be. Your printed fabric will be hemmed with either Black or White thread. If you are ordering a lightly woven material or a printed silk, you will find that one hem will be straight, while the other slightly rippled. The hemming material allowances are as follows and you need to make your print bigger to accommodate the hem:

Light Fabrics (20-100gsm): For silks and other light fabrics, we use 6-8mm in the hem (2 fold), so overall width/height will be minus 12-16mm
Medium Fabrics (101-200gsm): For medium-weight fabrics that fray, we use 15-20mm in the hem (2 fold) so overall width/height will be minus 35-40mm
Stiff/Heavy/No-fray fabrics: we use 15-20mm in the hem (1 fold) so overall width/height will be minus 35-40mm

All of these measurements can vary and should only be seen as an approximation. If you allow for hems and slight shrinkage, it can add a fairly significant amount to your ordered dimensions, so please make sure to consider these things prior to ordering. Depending on how open the weave is, our fabric can shrink anywhere from 2% to 8% with the average being 2.5%.

Choose From Three Finishes

We have three finishing options available:

As it comes: We simply cut around your image with scissors - leaving a perhaps uneven white border.
Hem with thread: We can offer your fabric hemmed with a black or white thread. This will add an additional 1-2 days of production time to your order. Please refer to the dimensions above to gauge how the hemming will affect the size of your print. You will have a choice of an overlock hem or folded hem (one or two fold depending on the fabric) however not all fabrics are suited to both hem types. In the design interface, you will be able to see which options are available to you. If you can only see one hem available, this means that this is the only suitable hem for this material type.
Cut on the line: Rather than our 'as it comes' option, we will cut neatly on the edge of your design against the grain of the fabric. If you have a border around your design we will cut around that border. If the design takes up the whole fabric, we will neatly cut around the edge of the image. Cutting against the grain is standard for fabric cutting, and as such lighter materials such as Georgette or Mulmul will have a slight wave in them, and some fraying may occur.

All of our fabrics are carefully hand cut. It is not always possible to maintain a perfectly straight cut for certain fabrics, so please bear this is mind if you see your edge has a slightly uneven look or a little fraying. This is not a flaw in the material. If you have any queries or would like to know about our cutting methods in more detail, please get in touch and we will be more than happy to discuss them with you.

For further information about our fabrics see our FAQs.

Please note: As everything we provide is handmade to order, you may find a slight variance in the sizes.