Create your own personalised swimwear with this customisable swimsuit fabric. Print with your own photos, designs and text to create truly uniqu...
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Did you know that swimsuit fabric isn't waterproof? This is one of those things that when you think about it, it makes sense, but often people assume that their swimwear is waterproof.
Browse our range of swimsuit fabrics
Medium weight 140gsm, soft and stretchy with a matte finish, smooth and opaque
90% poly / 10% lycra
Medium weight 160gsm, soft and stretchy with a silky finish, smooth and opaque
85% polyester 15% elastane
Medium weight 210gsm, soft and stretchy with a matte finish, smooth and opaque
82% polyester 18% lycra
Terry towel like split fibre towelling. Front side (face) is durable microfibre, back absorbent cotton terry.
55% polyester, 45% cotton
Medium weight Lycra made using ceramic fibres. Soft, super flexible fabric with 4-way stretch, adapts to the shape of the body. Ceramic fibre technology adds UV protection and makes this fabric completely opaque. Fantastic for sportswear and swimwear.
80% polyester 20% elastane
Care instructions
Wash at 30°c, low tumble dry heat, hang to dry, do not wring, low heat iron.
Swimwear is simply clothing that is designed to be worn by people who intend to take part in a water-based activity; it is also worn when doing things like sunbathing. People call swimwear a multitude of different names, often depending on where it will be worn, what it will be worn for, and also the shape of it. Swimsuits can be worn by men, women or children, and can also be worn as underwear for a wet-suit. Originally swimsuits were much fuller, and covered large amount of the wearer's body, from the 1930's onward, new materials were being used, and swimsuits began to become more figure-hugging than they previously had been, and since the 40's and 50's swimsuits have often been featured in glamour photography and beauty contests. From the 1960's, swimsuits began to get smaller and more revealing, and have varied in shape and size ever since.
All of our fabrics are printed at 200dpi. This works for us as it combines a great quality as well 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
Your uploaded design will automatically be scaled to fit the size of
We always recommend using an RGB colour space when you upload your images. More specifically, we suggest using the sRGB image profile, to achieve
There is no length limit for most of our fabrics. Our preview design window is set up to display 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.
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
Crocking is the term used to describe fading along the creases in
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.
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.
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.
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 ordering a little more than you need for your project.
Many of the fabrics we offer are semi-transparent, so printing on both sides of the fabric is not a service we offer.
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.
Our fabrics are printed with water-based inks as environmental consciousness is
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,
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 bear 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
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.
