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Printing Photos on Fabric

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Printing Photos on Fabric

Print your Favorite Pictures onto Fabric

(112 Reviews)

from $24.50

Create something truly unique by printing your photos onto fabric! At Bags of Love, we have a wide range o...

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Ships In 1 - 2 days
Ships In 1 - 2 days
Production time: Ships In 1 - 2 days
Delivery time: 3-5 days, several options available.
We are fast, and print most products in one day if you order before 7am EDT/4am PDT. Excludes delivery time.
Delivery: $12.95
Delivery: $12.95
- Delivery: $12.95
- Western European: $23
- Other European: $23
- US $24
- Australia / Japan: $38
- Rest Of The World: $33
Handmade
Handmade
Lovingly made by our talented artisans here in our studios

Photo Printing On Fabric

Custom textile photo printing by the meter
Dye sublimation photo fabric printing fast
No minimum order requirements
Photo printing fabrics
Photo print fused deep into the fabric
Hemming option (small additional charge)

Order a sample

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

Product information

If you are looking to get creative, and make your own quilt, clothing or home furnishings, then why not make them personal?

Instead of generic fabrics you can buy in the shop, create your own designs by printing your photos onto fabric. Our stunning range of 140 photo fabrics puts the design into your hands. Imagine seeing your pictures printed beautifully onto your choice of print-on fabric, which you can then make into something, which is all yours and say; "these are my photos printed onto fabric."

Use single photos or create a collage
Print your photos onto any of our fabrics
Use our user-friendly design tool
Create your own collage or use a template
No minimum order for your materials
Hand printed to order in our studio

Printing Photos on Fabric

Family photos and gorgeous landscape shots make amazing subject matters for personalized quilts, cushions and other home furnishings. Whatever fabric takes your fancy from our extensive 140 photo fabric range, you can be sure that your photos will look stunning and your special project will have an amazing end result.

Click here to view our entire range of printing photos on fabric.

How to Supply Your Own Fabric for Photo Printing

For all custom (supply your own) photo fabric orders, we ask for you to supply your fabric as follows, to ensure we print it correctly the first time.

Please supply your fabric rolled onto a cardboard core - we can provide one of these if necessary.
The side wishing to be printed should be rolled facing inwards, the back of the fabric facing out.
The orientation and grain direction should match your print layout in our online design system so that we print your graphic from top to bottom along the length of the fabric.
Large pieces of fabric (over 60" x 40") must be at least 50" longer than your print.
If you are supplying a small piece of print on fabric (under 40" x 40") you can fold it, with the 'print-on' side labeled with a firmly affixed piece of paper.
Please ensure all fabric supplied is clean and free from dust and fluff etc, which can ruin a print.
We may have to return fabrics, unprinted, if they are not supplied using the outlines above, to avoid printing any mistakes. We may need to add additional handling charges if we have to correct any of them about at the time of ordering.

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How we make it

Bespoke fabric printing

Photo fabrics are easy and quick for us to produce, so much so that we now offer photo fabric printing on demand. We are a leading bespoke photo fabric printer in the UK, and all of our printing is done in-house at our London premises. Our photo printing is made to order and printed on demand, with no minimum order - perfect if you just want to make some cushion covers or a much larger order like a fashion line! Print your pictures onto fabric, to make gorgeous home furnishings, such as drapes, curtains, and bedding. Print your photos onto fabric to create something unique and special to you or as a wonderful personalized photo gift.

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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 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 a highest resolution, the traffic lights will change color, 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 color space when you upload your images. More specifically, we suggest using the sRGB image profile, to achieve best color 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 (32.8 ft) to help you visualize 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 minimized 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 colors 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 fiber and reducing the color strength slightly (this can be approximately -40%). If you would like a bolder, more vibrant color 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-colored 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 colors 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, 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 color differences between my orders?
Although very rare, there could be a slight color difference from one print run to another. This is a normal part of the printing process, however we are always working to improve our color 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 color variations can be intensified fabric to fabric due to materials having different grains and textures; natural fabrics typically have more muted color 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 40" x 40", change your dimensions to 41" 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 (0.6 - 2.9 oz): 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 (3.0 - 5.9 oz): 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 questions 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.