The cotton is made into bales at the cotton gin and packaged. It is then loaded onto a truck that will deliver it to the processing factory. The cotton gin from above is located in Muleshoe, Texas.
The yarn above is being spun into roles.
This yarn is then knit into fabric.
Dyes are then added to the fabric to reach the desired color.
From the textile mill, the fabric pieces are sent to a cut & sew plant called Annic located in Nicaragua.
The t-shirts leave the cut and sew plant in boxes. Those boxes are loaded onto a truck. The truck drives them to a boat, which sails from Central America to the U.S. and docks in either the Miami or Port Everglades seaports in Florida. The boxes come off of the boat, and are loaded onto another truck that takes them to Dillon, South Carolina. In all the journey can take anywhere from 4-7 days.
The shirts are then tagged and given a reference number so that they can be traced by you!
The shirts are then sent to printing factories where they are given their respective designs. Our shirt was sent to Jones & Mitchell in Kansas City, Missouri where it received it’s print images.
Our shirt was then shipped to the Brown University bookstore where it became available for purchase.