Bella + Canvas B8871 - Women's Flowy Open Back Tee - Midnight

The Bella + Canvas B8871 is the Women's Flowy Open Back Tee, a drapy 3.7 oz poly/viscose body cut with an open, draped back panel, the blank a decorator reaches for when a women's program wants a soft flowy tee with an open back rather than a closed-back crew. It is the tee for boutique and resale lines, fitness, yoga and studio programs, festival and event merch and the bachelorette, bridal-party and group runs that buy a soft draped open-back tee by the dozen. The body is a lightweight 3.7 oz of 65% polyester / 35% viscose spun to 32 singles, the drapy jersey that gives the flowy line its loose retail fall, cut with an open draped back, side seams and a tear-away label. The size range runs S through XL, in six colours: White, Black, Red, Berry, Midnight and the heather Heather Dark Gray, all of them a poly-and-rayon flowy body.

The B8871 decorates as a poly-majority drapy body, not a cotton tee, which sets the method list and rules out the cotton routes; the open back also shapes where a print sits, since the draped open-back panel leaves the front body as the only print field, so all art goes on the front and nothing prints on the open back. For DTF, the transfer bonds to the poly/viscose face at a low-to-standard heat press, the standout and most forgiving route across the whole flowy colour range; keep the artwork on the front body and use a soft low-bulk film so the print moves with the drape rather than stiffening the loose body. For screen printing with plastisol, the poly-majority fabric migrates under a hot cure, so run a low-bleed ink and a poly-blocking underbase, keep the deposit light and the cure moderate, and back the drapy panel so it does not distort on the press. For vinyl, a light flexible HTV presses at a lower temperature on the heat-sensitive body, so keep the design small and centred on the front body so it moves with the fall of the tee. DTG does not apply, since the 65/35 poly/viscose body carries no cotton for the ink to bond to and the lightweight face reads poorly. Water-based and discharge inks do not apply, since the poly and viscose body will not discharge. Embroidery does not apply, since the drapy 3.7 oz body is too light and loose to embroider without puckering and distortion. Sublimation is not a reliable route, since the viscose content does not hold disperse dye and the colours are not a white polyester substrate.

• Brand: Bella + Canvas
• Style: B8871 (Women's Flowy Open Back Tee)
• Fabric: 65% polyester / 35% viscose, 32 singles (heathers stay poly/viscose)
• Weight: 3.7 oz/yd2
• Construction: Drapy flowy jersey, open draped back, side-seamed, tear-away label.
• Fit: Women's relaxed draped fit
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL
• Colors available: 6 colours across solids and heather (check current availability on the product page)
• Ordering: available by the piece or by the case; confirm current packing per case for your colour and size before a large order
• Care: Machine wash cold, gentle. Hang dry or tumble dry low.

The reorder note specific to this style: treat it as a poly-majority fashion body, so default to DTF for clean colour across the whole range and place all art on the front body since the open back is not a print field. Hold a light deposit and a moderate cure on any screen run because of the poly migration, and press any HTV cool. Cross-shop the Bella + Canvas 8852 Women's Flowy Long-Sleeve T-Shirt with 2x1 Sleeves to run the same drapy fabric in a full long-sleeve, and the Bella + Canvas B8801 Women's Flowy Raglan Tee for a closed-back raglan in the same fabric. TheClothingSpace stocks the B8871 at wholesale pricing with bulk discounts that increase as case and unit quantities rise, among the lowest prices online for this style, with fast US shipping on stocked colours.

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