If you are planning to personalize or create a rugby jersey designed patterned after your favorite national teams, you need to choose the material that you’re going to use first. If you plan to have a personalized all black shirts for example, you need to consider materials that are not only comfortable to wear but also affordable. Cotton, for example, while very affordable, tend to be a very heavy material to wear for very active and physical sport such as rugby. Opt for moisture wicking fabrics that allow your skin to breathe like cotton, but are lightweight, durable and can protect you well against heat. The next step is to design a logo that you’d like to put on your jerseys – you can choose to copy the All Blacks team logo or you can create one on your own; this you can do by drawing by hand or by using a computer program. The logo that you come up with must be about the same size of your hand so the logo will fit appropriately over your left chest.
Take the logo design that you have in a store that specializes in screen printing or embroidery. Check if the size of the logo is just right by printing a copy of the logo design that you have created. If you are planning to have personalized all blacks jerseys, it would be best if you make sure that you have the correct logo and designs. Hold the design up to the mirror to double check if the design appears to be backward. If the image appears to be backward, reverse the image using a computer draw program. Print two copies of your design using heat transfer papers. Wait fifteen minutes for the design to dry, making sure that you leave a half an inch margin on all the sides of your design when you cut the edges.
Set your iron to its hottest setting and make sure that you turn off the steam setting on the iron; use a towel that you can lay on the ironing board and put a tin foil atop the towel to absorb excess heat; put the jersey on top of the foil and iron out any wrinkles. You then would need to iron the image face down on the garment for ten seconds and let it cool for ten more seconds. Creating your personalized rugby shirts and jerseys is a great way to show support to your favorite national rugby teams, and websites such as http://www.ryos.co.nz showcase some of the best replica jerseys and merchandise form the most famous rugby teams. Such websites also provide ideas on some of the designs that you can see on actual jerseys used by your favorite rugby teams.
