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If your business, organization, or campaign would like to sell branded t-shirts without the hassle of excess inventory, this is for you!

• Zero Inventory: no guessing of sizes or risk of unused inventory

• Low Up Front Costs: minimal fee for page setup

• Print on Demand: we ship as orders come in or local pickup is available

• You Choose Cost of Shirt: a portion of sales can go back to you

• Made-in-the-USA, 100% Cotton Premium T-Shirts: always sustainably made shirts from TS Designs

Dropshipping from your site with your store front is also available.

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Building Better Apparel, Together

By partnering with TS Designs, you’re supporting a transparent and sustainable supply chain and helping bring apparel manufacturing back home. Join us in building a better way forward.

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Always made in the USA, TS Designs produces premium printed apparel through a transparent, domestic supply chain. On our journey toward circularity, we champion natural fibers and dyes to help reduce microplastics in the environment.

Last year has underscored just how fragile the US apparel industry has become. Domestic manufacturers continue to face mounting pressure, while cotton farmers are navigating uncertainty driven by pricing, policy, and global competition. These challenges don’t exist in isolation, rather they affect every step of how clothing is grown, made, and brought to market. At TS Designs, this reality has shaped much of our work over the past year, reinforcing why keeping apparel production closer to home matters now more than ever.

Dye House of the Future

Garment Dye on Demand

Garment dyeing creates apparel that never shrinks with a super-soft vintage feel that is already broken in. We have been garment dyeing our 100% cotton t-shirts for over two decades. With the ability to go from white to custom dye colors on demand, our model reduces the need to keep and forecast colored inventory. We recently invested in a new garment dye technology, called the ColorBox.

This equipment along with a fabric treatment we have developed, Affinity™, absorbs dye faster and eliminates the need for chemicals and creates dramatic environmental resource savings in the dyeing process (90% heat, 61% CO2, 72% water, and 67% energy!).

We believe garment dyeing is a powerful path forward for manufacturing in the USA. Not only does it produce beautiful depth of colors on apparel, but it also gives customers greater flexibility by allowing color to be chosen later in the process. With this approach, we are proving that clothing made domestically with natural fibers can successfully compete in the global apparel industry.

Where Your Clothing Re-Launch

Building a More Resilient & Equitable Apparel Industry

We believe that knowing where your clothing comes from is a step toward building a fairer, more sustainable apparel industry. It’s not just about curiosity, it’s about accountability.

In May, we launched our upgraded, interactive tool, WhereYourClothing.com, that lets you trace every step of your TS Designs t-shirt’s journey. It shows you where your garments were grown and made, reinforcing our commitment to radical transparency throughout the entire production process. We supply an image of the contact person, their phone number, email, and a physical address for the manufacturers in our supply chains..

Collaborations

Shown above at Rolling Hills Gin L-R: Ilsa Spaan with TS Designs, Jin Su & Melanie from UNCG, Wes Morgan with Rolling Hills Gin, and our CEO Eric Henry

Solid State Clothing

Product Launches

Solid State Clothing is our retail brand, and it’s our way to bring our meticulously crafted, locally grown, and made shirts directly to your wardrobe. Solid State releases small batches of premium-quality t-shirts that are durable and versatile for work, play, and everything in between. It’s also our platform for experimenting with new materials like natural dyes and creative collaborations with regional artists and makers. 

In addition to the Caffe Inc. and the Nature Coatings BioBlack collaborations above, this year we released several new products.

Natural Dye Wool Scarf – Marigold or Walnut

On Stage & In the Media

Speaking Engagements

Yes, these lists are long, and for good reason. Eric Henry is a sought-after speaker and thought leader, regularly invited to share insights on domestic manufacturing, circularity, and transparent supply chains. Interested in having Eric speak at your next event? Contact us to start the conversation.

• UNC CleanTech Summitt, Chapel Hill, NC

• Rural Revival Project with Antony Oliver: Spruce Pine, NC

• SHOP! Marketplace: Charlotte, NC

• ThreadX: Sundance, Ut

• Earth Gives: Power Hour Speaker on Fashion Circularity

• ThinkParallax: Durham, NC

• Printing United: Orlando, FL

• Sustainable Brands Conference: San Diego, CA

• University of Wyoming School of Design, Merchandising and Textiles Program: Laramie, Wyoming

“Eric’s insights and extensive experience offered several valuable insights to my students. Many of my students are interested in not only textiles and sustainability but in opening their own ethical and sustainable buisnesses in the US. His breadth of experience navigating this space was critical to these students being able to apply what they have learned in our textile science course to their future goals.” — Jennifer Harmon, PhD Associate Professor Design, Merchandising and Textiles Program, University of Wyoming

Featured in Publications

• Rural Media Group by Tony St James and marion Kirkpatrick: WTO Cotton Talks Center on Value-Chain Investments as U.S. Regional Chain Faces Financial and Capacity Crisis

• AInvest by Oliver Blake: Navigating the 2025 Uncertainty Shock: Strategic Opportunities in a Volatile Market

Moving Forward

Despite the challenges, we remain optimistic. We’ve seen firsthand that when people understand how their clothing is made, they choose more thoughtfully, and that choice makes a difference. As we look ahead, we’ll continue investing in domestic supply chains, natural fibers, and transparent processes that support farmers, workers, and communities. Thank you for standing with us this past year. Your support and your t-shirt orders help make it possible to keep doing the work and to keep moving forward together.

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Always made in the USA, TS Designs produces premium printed apparel through a transparent, domestic supply chain. On our journey toward circularity, we champion natural fibers and dyes to help reduce microplastics in the environment.

Fulfillment Orders: Direct to Your Customer

Let us handle production and shipping so you can focus on growing your brand. With on-demand printing, your customers get the highest-quality, sustainably made t-shirts directly from your online store to their door.

• Your customers order from your website
• We integrate your site (Shopify and other platforms, some exclusions) with our shipping system
• Orders are printed on demand and shipped directly to your customers

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Building Better Apparel, Together

By partnering with TS Designs, you’re supporting a transparent and sustainable supply chain and helping bring apparel manufacturing back home. Join us in building a better way forward.

Shop sustainably made printed t-shirts for your company, organization, or events

Don’t need printing? Add a meticulously crafted, locally grown and made t-shirt to your wardrobe

Always made in the USA, TS Designs produces premium printed apparel through a transparent, domestic supply chain. On our journey toward circularity, we champion natural fibers and dyes to help reduce microplastics in the environment.

Garment dyeing is a technique that creates a super-soft and vintage feel that is already broken-in. It’s the process of dyeing white garments (or in our case, t-shirts) AFTER they have been sewn and constructed. A majority of clothes get their color from dyed rolls of fabric.

This system is great for inventory control because we only have to stock white t-shirts. Garment dyeing gives us the flexibility to respond to real demand by allowing our customers to choose color at the last stage of the ordering process.

Teaser: Dye House of the Future

 A few years ago, we identified the ColorBox. This garment dyeing equipment by Jeanologia is the most advanced garment dyeing technology available today.

Although our current dye house has served us well, this new, more modern version of dyeing apparel is less labor-intensive and conserves valuable resources like water, energy and CO2.

We recently received our first sample version of the ColorBox to begin validating its effectiveness. This marks the first step toward building a larger, more advanced dye house, positioning us to compete in an industry still ruled by overseas manufacturing.

For instance, we are currently testing a batch of natural dye made from Marigolds grown in our on-site dye garden!

We believe garment dyeing is a powerful path forward for manufacturing in the USA. Not only does it produce beautiful depth of colors on apparel, but it also gives customers greater flexibility by allowing color to be chosen later in the process. With this approach, we are proving that clothing made domestically with natural fibers can successfully compete in the global apparel industry.

Shop sustainably made printed t-shirts for your company, organization, or events

Don’t need printing? Add a meticulously crafted, locally grown and made t-shirt to your wardrobe

TS Designs is a t-shirt manufacturer that produces the highest quality printed apparel through a domestic, transparent, and trackable supply chain. We use only natural fibers & earth friendly printing, always grown and made in the USA.

Building a more resilient and equitable apparel industry

Why Transparency Matters

Today, overseas manufacturing operations make up 98% of the clothing we purchase here in the United States. This makes it difficult to learn anything about where our clothes come from, or to exercise our buying power to influence the market.

We believe consumers have a right to know the supply chain for all apparel, and they do for TS Designs t-shirts, from the farmers who grow the cotton to the folks who sew the cloth together. That’s why back in 2008, we launched Where Your Clothing with our flagship Cotton of the Carolinas t-shirt, allowing customers to trace every step of their shirt’s journey.

It’s not just about curiosity, it’s about accountability. We believe that knowing where your clothing comes from is the first step toward building a fairer, more sustainable apparel industry.

Today, We are excited to relaunch WhereYourClothing.com, an upgraded, interactive tool that lets you trace every step of your TS Designs t-shirt’s journey.

Try it out! Break out your old TS Designs or Solid State Clothing t-shirt and head on over to WhereYourClothing.com. If you don’t have one, take a look around the site and learn about us:

• QR Code: If there is one on your shirt just scan it to take you directly to its page

• Track Your Apparel: If there is a 12 digit code on your shirt’s neck label enter it on the home page

• Supply Chains: Search by brand if there is not a code

• Partners: You can see our partners who have branded supply chain pages.  Ask us if you would like to inquire about having yours!

The website shows you where your garments were grown and made, reinforcing our commitment to radical transparency throughout the entire production process. We supply an image of the contact person, their phone number, email, and a physical address for the manufacturers in our supply chains.

This level of access may seem simple, but it’s incredibly rare. Most clothing brands don’t share any part of their supply chains and many don’t even know them, nor have any interest in finding out.

Note: We provide as much information as possible, however we lack access to some of the information in the supply chains that we do not directly control. As it is not normalized for companies to ask details, the information is often lost or never tracked to begin with. Our long-term goal is to create an apparel system that normalizes transparency, but for now, we will continue to ask the questions that so many have ignored.

We think it’s time to change and it starts with you. When you know where and how your clothes are made, you can make more informed choices. By exercising your buying power, you can help shift the apparel industry toward greater transparency, fairness, and sustainability.

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TS Designs is a t-shirt manufacturer that produces the highest quality printed apparel through a domestic, transparent, and trackable supply chain. We use only natural fibers & earth friendly printing, always grown and made in the USA.

TS Designs sits on four and a half acres and early on we adopted a permaculture plan. We strive to maintain a diverse native landscaping environment that goes beyond simple aesthetics.

Just in time for Spring we were ready for wood chips. We use them for composting and landscaping. In the past we would get from Chip Drop that supplies free wood chips to gardeners. Lately they have been hard to track down in our area.

As fate would have it our president Eric Henry heard a truck that sounded like chipping wood near our facility. He dashed over and what do you know it was wood chips! When he asked if we could have them they said “Sure!” and drove right over and dropped them off in our parking lot. In exchange Eric invited the workers to our Breakroom Boutique to pick out a few t-shirts for their efforts. Thanks guys!

Local Connected Models

TS Designs is closely knit with the community. Wood chips are a common thread with initiatives we are involved in that work to unite community.

Commercial Composting Initiative

A promising initiative Eric is working on is the development of a commercial composting system in our area. Discussions are underway and bringing this to life will require commitment from local government, farmers, and the broader community. Wood chips will provide the carbon media for this initiative, which will affect community in the following ways:

• Redirecting food waste from landfills

• Allowing backyard chickens within city limits to reduce food waste and enhance the local food supply—we all know about egg prices…

• Repurposing food waste such as coffee grounds, avocado pits, and onion skins for natural garment dyeing that could replace globally produced, fossil fuel derived synthetic dyes

• Combining food and yard waste to create compost, reducing dependence on fossil fuel-derived fertilizers

Piedmont Agrarian Collaborative

The recent initiative Eric created with our friend and collaborator Josh Humphreys, Piedmont Agrarian Collaborative (PAC), is another case in point. It provides food from the farmer to the eater by bringing together a diverse group of small farms (including Henry Family Farm) committed to regenerative farming practices. One pick-up point is located at the TS Designs facility! When we have them, we share our wood chips with the PAC farmers.

“In these chaotic times collaboration is key to support each other and move forward. Collaboration gives us a broader perspective of people’s views, opinions, and ideas, which in turn builds more connected, resilient communities.” — Eric Henry, President TS Designs

When ordering t-shirts for your company, event, or organization, cost is often the first consideration. But have you ever stopped to think about where those shirts come from and how they’re made? Many fashion brands prioritize the lowest price, pressuring overseas factories to cut costs—often at the expense of apparel workers and the environment.

At TS Designs, we do things differently. Our triple bottom line business model means every decision we make considers what’s best for people and the planet. That’s why our shirts may cost more—but they’re made to last, support ethical manufacturing, and contribute to a more sustainable future.

“In these chaotic times collaboration is key to support each other and move forward. Collaboration gives us a broader perspective of people’s views, opinions, and ideas, which in turn builds more connected, resilient communities.” — Eric Henry, President TS Designs

What Goes into Our Slow Fashion T-Shirts?

• Transparent Supply Chain: Only 2% of garment workers worldwide earn a living wage. We source every step domestically, ensuring fair pay and full supply chain transparency.

• Fabric: Cotton costs 25% more than fossil-fuel-based fabrics, but we’re committed to 100% natural fibers—even down to the thread. Our Cotton of the Carolinas shirts use cotton locally sourced from a farmer who we negotiate fair pricing with.

• Quality: Made with 100% US-grown ring-spun cotton, our shirts are ultra-soft, durable, and pill-resistant for years of wear. This compares with some brands that offer only open end or air jet yarns, resulting in a rougher hand and less durable fabric. Since organic cotton is not readily available in the US, we use some GOTS certified cotton threads from overseas. Stay tuned as that may change soon!

• Eco-Friendly Printing: Unlike traditional screen printing, our REHANCE™ process embeds the design into the fabric for a soft, long-lasting print—without fossil-fuel-based inks. This process took us years to develop and is only available at TS Designs.

• Garment Dye: Each shirt is garment dyed, therefore it is preshrunk and broken in for a vintage, ultra-soft feel from day one.

That is why when we say TS Designs has set out to make the highest quality and most sustainable printed t-shirts on the planet, we back it up with a commitment to doing things the right way—not the cheapest way.

We believe every t-shirt should reflect your values of sustainability, quality, and ethical production, and we can’t do it without you. If your business or organization is ready to make a difference with better t-shirts, click below to get started.

The TS Designs team was hard at work last year—not only making the best darn t-shirt with a fully trackable, made-in-the-USA supply chain but also shaking up the apparel industry by engaging with our community, launching a nonprofit, and gaining recognition through multiple media features.

Initiatives Launched

Solid State Clothing

Solid State Clothing is our retail brand, and it’s our way to bring our meticulously crafted, locally grown and made shirts directly to your wardrobe. Solid State releases small batches of premium-quality t-shirts that are durable and versatile for work, play, and everything in between. It’s also our platform for experimenting with new materials like natural dyes and creative collaborations with regional artists and makers.

2024 Solid State Clothing Product Launches

2024 Solid State Clothing Events

Hempsmith Runway Fashion Show

We were honored to show off creative ways to wear Solid State Clothing again in 2024 at The Hempsmith Runway’s Fashion Show at The Plant in Pittsboro, NC.

TS Designs in the Media

Climate Town: Fast Fashion is Ruining Merch

Climate Town is Rollie Williams and a ragtag team of climate communicators, creatives and comedians who examine climate change in a hilarious yet educational way. In this episode TS Designs is featured as a sustainable alternative for t-shirt merch! A must watch if you haven’t seen this yet.

All the Media

Our CEO Eric Henry continues to be asked to speak or contribute to multiple publications and podcasts over the year around our mission to sustainability.

Podcasts

• Story of a Startup: Creating Sustainable Brands with Eric Henry (CEO, TS Designs)
• ASI Media Promo Insiders: Why Natural Fibers & Dyes are Key for Apparel Sustainability
• How I Built My Small Business: Crafting an Eco-Friendly Clothing Empire with TS Designs and the Fight Against Fashion’s Waste Crisis
• Big News Network: U.S. businesses adopting Environmental, Social and Governance practices
• The Hometown Holler: People, Planet, Profit

Television

• Fox 8 News: TS Designs wants you to ask questions about your shirts

Publications / Blog Articles

• eTextileCommunications: Eric Henry driving TS Designs to reclaim America’s apparel heritage – naturally, sustainably
• Ignation Solidarity Network: Fordham Becomes CEPA Partner
• Big News Network: U.S. businesses adopting Environmental, Social and Governance practices
• Black Walnut Project White Paper: A team of Sustainable Innovation MBA students from the University of Vermont, led independent research and interviews with potential collaborators to aid in developing a system to commercially leverage black walnuts as a natural dye material.

Customer Spotlight

We love our customers and their commitments to sustainability. In an effort to dive deeper, we developed our Customer Spotlight series, where we feature interviews with them on the TS Designs Blog.

• Yonderlust: Kit and Sonya Linton
• Two Tired Parents: Jessie and Ryan Stasiak
• Rolling Hills Gin: Wes Morgan (Supplier Spotlight)
• Carrboro Farmers Market: Maggie Funkenhouser and Laura Perez
• Gilson Snow: Nicholas Gilson and Austin Royer
• Hillsborough United Church of Christ: Jay Kennett
• Climate Town: Rolllie Williams and Matt Nelsen
• Burlington Beer Works: Tracy Schmidt
• Mutts Comic: Ali Datko and Patrick McDonnell
• Sustainable Angler: Rick Crawford
• Chapman Trading Co. and Magnolia Loom: Zeke Chapman

Looking Toward the Future

As we look toward 2025, our commitment to sustainability remains unwavering. We will persist in promoting DEI, climate change awareness, in addition to our domestic manufacturing, transparency, and sustainable practices. No matter the political climate, our resolve remains strong as we continue to bring full transparency to the global apparel supply chain. 

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TS Designs manufactures the highest quality printed t-shirts in a domestic, transparent, and trackable supply chain. We work with brands who want to provide their customers with responsibly made clothing that positively impacts people and the planet.

Waste from Apparel Industry Recognized as a Concern by the U.S. Federal Government

Breaking News as the Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus Takes Action

TS Designs President Eric Henry eagerly joined in support when Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced the first-ever Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus in June 2024. According to Rep. Pingree’s site the principles of the Slow Fashion Caucus include:

• Incentivize apparel industry to promote reuse, repair, and recycling of textiles
• Develop “circular economy” policies to drive the apparel industry to reduce natural resource consumption
• Promote textile reuse and recycling infrastructure
• Bring textile production back to the USA
• Support the use of more sustainable fibers
• Expand initiatives across federal agencies to encourage textile sustainability

The Caucus asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review their concerns and on Dec 12, 2024 the GAO released this groundbreaking report, Textile Waste: Federal Entities Should Collaborate on Reduction and Recycling Efforts (summary report), recognizing the growing problem of textile waste, and the need for an interagency mechanism to connect federal agencies in addressing this challenge, minimizing redundancy in research and development efforts.

The GAO’s full report recommends that Congress consider directing a federal entity or entities to coordinate efforts and take action to reduce textile waste and advance textile recycling. The report also describes:

1. how textile waste affects the environment;
2. how and why the rate of textile waste in the U.S. has changed in the last 2 decades; and,
3. federal actions to reduce textile waste and advance textile recycling, and what opportunities exist for entities to collaborate.

Although post-consumer textile recycling is important, an astounding 30% of clothing manufactured never even reaches the consumer, instead ending up being burned or dumped in landfills.

Biden Administration’s Response

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was quick to respond, denying the need for a federal interagency task force. They agreed on many of the findings of the GAO report but at this time the federal mechanism for managing it does not and will not exist.

You can read an in-depth look into what this means to the textile industry, in this Sustainable Fashion Forum‘s article, What the Biden Administration’s Response to GAO Means for Textile Waste in the US.

Shop Slow Fashion: Supporting TS Designs, Solid State Clothing, and nonprofit initiative Know Your Clothing

Despite the competition from low-cost fast fashion, TS Designs will stay the course and continue on the path of sustainability, including creating for and contributing to the Slow Fashion model. 

Please continue your support by ordering long-lasting, high-quality apparel in these times when the cheapest is not the best way to go.

• Need shirts printed for your organization or an event? TS Designs has sustainable and circular options. Visit TSDesigns.com, pick one of our brands, and request pricing.
   
• Don’t need printing? Add a meticulously crafted, locally grown and made t-shirt or other sustainable apparel  to your wardrobe with our retail brand Solid State Clothing.  
   
• Support R&D around creating more sustainable fashion solutions by donating to our nonprofit initiative, Know Your Clothing, a fiscally sponsored project of Croatan Institute, a registered 501(c)(3) public entity.

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