Tie-Dye CD100Y - Youth 100% Cotton T-Shirt - Flag

The Tie-Dye CD100Y is the youth cut of the Colortone CD100, a 5.4 oz 100% cotton tee that ships already hand tie-dyed in the USA, so the colour is the product and no two pieces come out exactly alike. It is the youth blank a shop reaches for when the tie-dye look has to be authentic reactive dye rather than a printed tie-dye pattern, which makes it the default for camp and summer-program merch, school spirit and event tees, festival and resale lines, and any youth job that pairs to the adult Tie-Dye CD100 on one matching dyed body.

Decorating a tie-dye tee is a different problem from printing a solid blank, because you are printing onto an already-dyed, dark, multicolour surface, so opacity is the whole job. For DTF, the transfer carries its own white layer, which is why it is the cleanest method on a busy dyed ground: it lays full-opacity colour over any pattern at standard heat-press settings, so keep the press temperature controlled to limit reactive-dye bleed and a youth-scaled transfer presses cleanly on the lightweight panel. For screen printing, lay a white underbase first so the art reads over the dark multicolour dye, cure at the minimum effective temperature, and run a low-bleed poly-blocking underbase on the deep reds and purples that are most prone to migrating under heat. For DTG, pre-treat and print a white underbase through the printer, and favour bold high-contrast artwork over fine photo detail because the busy dyed background fights small detail. For embroidery, the 5.4 oz cotton supports a left-chest design with a cut-away backing; pick thread colours that contrast the busy ground so the logo reads. Each garment is hand-dyed, so the exact pattern varies piece to piece, which is the look buyers want but also means you place artwork on the body rather than registering it to the dye.

• Brand: Tie-Dye (Colortone)
• Style: CD100Y (Tie-Dye Youth Multi-Color Tie-Dyed T-Shirt)
• Fabric: 100% cotton, dyed with fiber-reactive dye
• Weight: 5.4 oz/yd2
• Construction: Heavyweight jersey. Seamless rib collar. Taped shoulder-to-shoulder. Double-needle stitching throughout. Hand tie-dyed in the USA.
• Fit: Youth classic fit
• Sizes: XS, S, M, L (youth)
• Colors available: 80+ hand-dyed patterns including spiral, multi-colour, and specialty dye effects; each piece is unique (check current availability on the product page)
• Ordering: available by the piece or by the case; confirm current packing per case for your pattern and size before a large order
• Care: Machine wash cold, separately. Tumble dry low.

Because every CD100Y is hand-dyed, the reorder note specific to this style is that the dye pattern is consistent by name but never identical piece to piece, so order a pattern and size run together rather than expecting an exact match to a previous batch, and pair youth sizes with the adult Tie-Dye CD100 in the same pattern when a program runs both. TheClothingSpace stocks the CD100Y 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 patterns.

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