Fundraising selling organic cotton clothes ?

[etienne]

I received an advertisement from Rapanui Clothing for their Teemill system which allows people to start their own T-Shirt shop.

Their clothes are full organic and of good quality. Many organisations use the system for fundraising.

So if somebody has artistic competences, this could be an option for fundraising and creating cool clothes.

Here are some examples :
https://permaculture.teemill.co.uk/
https://greenpeaceuk.teemill.co.uk/
https://fourpawsuk.teemill.co.uk/
https://katharinehamnett.teemill.co.uk/
https://gardenorganic.teemill.co.uk/

Don't know if this would be an option, but I'm not the artist here.

It's almost free, which means that there is no direct costs, excepted that you need to order the T-shirts you design if you want to publish pictures of them.

Best whishes for 2018 to everybody.

Etienne

[etienne]

The store is very easy to create.

Here is what I achieved in about half an hour.
https://schrondweiler.teemill.com/

The design of the T-shirt takes much more time, but the aim was to do something cool with the kids.

Etienne

[etienne]

For example from my V2G graph,

I made a V2G T-shirt.

https://schrondweiler.teemill.com/product/v2g/

I guess this was about 2 or 3 hours work.

Etienne

[Neven]

I mostly buy second clothes (that's to say, my wife does for me  ), but this looks pretty cool. I could think of a couple of nice-looking Arctic sea ice T-shirts. Maybe something for the future. Thanks for the info, etienne.

[etienne]

Hello,

I just wanted to give some feedback. Selling T-shirt really is not so easy, I was my only customer. Of course, I'm just a hobby designer, never was an art oriented type of person, found the message more important than the look, and my main social media activity is this forum (I don't have any account on Facebook, Instagram... just a low activity on LinkedIn). So my advertisement strategy was very weak, but with no sales at all, I didn't feel like investing money to be more visible.If you want to check the designs, the site is still active (https://schrondweiler.teemill.com/), it doesn't cost anything, so I might keep it, I don't know yet.

The days with just one visitor is often myself who check the look of a new product, or who update the look of the site.

The quality of the clothes is very good, but since it is individual printing, the ink doesn't hold as well as standard products of major brands, this is why I avoid big printed areas.

It was fun and interesting, but if somebody wants to do some fundraising for the forum that way, it might be a hard work to get some success.

Etienne