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A Whopper from Your Neighborhood Burger King isn’t Quite what we Mean by Local…

by administrator | Aug 6, 2010 | Our Community, Sustainability

On my first tour of TS Designs, I was immediately impressed by each and every sustainable innovation on the premises. One of my absolute favorite features, however, is the Garden of Eat’n. This extensive employee-grown garden provides veggies for those of us who...

Elon’s Fusion of Art & Earth

by administrator | Jul 23, 2010 | Our Community

This fall, the Art Department of our local liberal arts college, Elon University, will be working to add an Eco-Art course to its repertoire. A small student research team, led by Professor Samantha DiRosa, aims to create a brand new curriculum set to be introduced in...

Raising the Bar

by Eric Michel | Jul 22, 2010 | Sustainability

A few years ago, we looked at the production chain of a printed t-shirt and separated its impact into 3 categories: Where the shirts were made What the shirts were made of How they were printed We’re always striving to push the envelope of sustainability with...

REHANCE: The Director’s Cut

by Eric Michel | Jul 6, 2010 | REHANCE

What’s the solution to traditional screen printing? Eco-friendly REHANCE by TS Designs Did you know there are two main formats of screen printing ink – plastisol and water-based? A typical screen printer will take a dyed shirt (which is to say, a shirt that is...

More Local than Local

by Eric Michel | Jun 28, 2010 | Cotton of the Carolinas, News, Our Community

We’ve had several conversations with potential customers lately who prefer to do business with the screenprinter in their town because that printer is local. While we’re all about local business, the problem is that the vast majority of local printers just perform the...

Cotton of the Carolinas at BALLE

by Eric Michel | Jun 21, 2010 | Cotton of the Carolinas

In May, Eric Henry, along with t-shirt maker Brian Morrell and cotton farmer Ronnie Burleson, gave a presentation on Cotton of the Carolinas. The presentation was held at the BALLE Conference (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) in Charleston, SC to an...

Why chickens at a company that prints t-shirts?

by administrator | Apr 7, 2010 | Sustainability

Eric Henry and Tom Sineath with one of the newest additions to TS Designs (From Eric Henry, TS Designs president) I have been talking about getting chickens at TS Designs for over a year, well on April 5th we got 7 of them. Why chickens at a company that prints...

Dow Corning is testing their silicone inks at TS Designs

by administrator | Apr 6, 2010 | Sustainability

Here at TS Designs, we are currently working on a project with Dow Corning to test their silicone inks in automatic printing. We at TS Designs want to support anyone who is interested in developing more environmentally friendly products and we’re excited to...

Cold wash, line-dry

by administrator | Mar 2, 2010 | Sustainability

Here at TS Designs we are all about sustainability. We focus on sustainability in our product, our business practices, and our final impact on the environment. However, there is only so much we can do, the rest of the environmental choices are up to the consumer. In a...

T-shirt Design Contest

by administrator | Feb 23, 2010 | News

Want to see your design on a TS Designs shirt? Now you can! We are having a T-shirt design contest. There will be 3 winners, 1 for each of our different brands (tsdOrganic, tsdRecycled, or tsdCarolinas). The prize is $100 and your design on shirts all over the...

A note from our President, Eric Henry

by administrator | Feb 8, 2010 | Cotton of the Carolinas

Good morning, I am Eric Henry, President of TS Designs based in Burlington, NC. Since NAFTA we have lost over 100,000 textile and apparel jobs in North Carolina. At TS Designs we want to be a different company, a company based on a triple bottom line of People, Planet...

Reconnecting to local food through the community garden

by administrator | Jan 20, 2010 | Our Community, Sustainability

Both Tom Sineath and Eric Henry here at TS Designs are committed to reconnecting their employees back to local food. It is better for them, their wallets, and the environment. TSD will be moving ahead with their community garden this year after a successful first...

TSD Carolinas Marketing Material

by administrator | Jan 15, 2010 | Cotton of the Carolinas

In an effort to help our customers differentiate Cotton of the Carolinas products from conventional shirts, we have created marketing materials for retailers selling CotC shirts. If you sell or distribute Cotton of the Carolinas shirts, please click on the links to...

Our Clients’ Alternative Building Structures

by administrator | Dec 19, 2009 | Our Community, Sustainability

The folks at Peacehaven Community Farm in Guilford County recently put in a yurt from Blue Ridge Yurts. They are testing the yurt to determine how to best use their land with as light an impact as possible. Some of the future uses for the yurt that they are...