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Clothing and Equipment Labels

I thought that I would share with you the clothing and equipment labels I created. The inspiration for this came from the great article by Jonathan Bocek & Bradley R. Hubbard from the "der Ersta Zug" web site here: der Erste Zug

Lacking access to a Screen Printer I got a package of Ink Jet T-Shirt Transfer paper and an appropriate looking piece of fabric. The Ersta Zug article indicated creating the actual label would be difficult, however with a good font (Fraktur BT) and Word I very easily created the label in just a few minutes.

I also printed several labels onto paper to glue to the non-cloth equipment such as my belt.

At first I printed a bunch all the labels at once and transferred the whole sheet to the fabric, thus each piece of fabric was entirely covered in the plastic film from the transfer paper. After sewing this on however the needle holes caused the film to crack and begin to come off.

A better solution is to do your printing, then carefully cut each label out of the transfer paper. You want to get rid of most of the excess film before ironing. This will give a nice fabric border for the label that is easy to sew and will increase the longevity of the label.

Then fold the edges over and sew.

Here is a link to the file I printed. Feel free to download it and edit as you like and use. You must have the font Fraktur. Download Label .

Klaus