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Create your own personalised swimwear with this customisable swimsuit material. Print with your own photos...
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Ships in 3 - 4 days
Delivery $15.50
Handmade
Did you know that swimsuit fabric isn't waterproof? This is one of those things that when you think about it, it makes sense, but often people assume that their swimwear is waterproof.
Browse our range of swimsuit fabrics
Medium weight 140gsm, soft and stretchy with a matte finish, smooth and opaque
90% poly / 10% lycra
Medium weight 160gsm, soft and stretchy with a silky finish, smooth and opaque
85% polyester 15% elastane
Medium weight 210gsm, soft and stretchy with a matte finish, smooth and opaque
82% polyester 18% lycra
Terry towel like split fibre towelling. Front side (face) is durable microfibre, back absorbent cotton terry.
55% polyester, 45% cotton
Medium weight Lycra made using ceramic fibres. Soft, super flexible fabric with 4-way stretch, adapts to the shape of the body. Ceramic fibre technology adds UV protection and makes this fabric completely opaque. Fantastic for sportswear and swimwear.
80% polyester 20% elastane
Care instructions
Wash at 30°c, low tumble dry heat, hang to dry, do not wring, low heat iron.
Swimwear is simply clothing that is designed to be worn by people who intend to take part in a water-based activity; it is also worn when doing things like sunbathing. People call swimwear a multitude of different names, often depending on where it will be worn, what it will be worn for, and also the shape of it. Swimsuits can be worn by men, women or children, and can also be worn as underwear for a wet-suit. Originally swimsuits were much fuller, and covered large amount of the wearer's body, from the 1930's onward, new materials were being used, and swimsuits began to become more figure-hugging than they previously had been, and since the 40's and 50's swimsuits have often been featured in glamour photography and beauty contests. From the 1960's, swimsuits began to get smaller and more revealing, and have varied in shape and size ever since.
Your personalised swimsuit fabric is printed digitally in our studio by experts using methods which will bond your custom design to your chosen fabric in fantastically detailed, full colour print. You can choose to have your fabric hemmed, with either a folded or overlock hem, depending on the fabric that you've chosen. If you would prefer not to have your material hemmed so that you can make and finish your own glorious swimwear, you can have this sent as it comes, or cut on the line with all of the white edges removed.
We print at 200dpi, which is a good combination of quality and file weight. Ideally, your image should be scaled to 100% at 200dpi; this means that no resizing of your file occurs, preventing any interpolation. Our design interface will have a quality marker next to the design that you have uploaded, this will change colour using a traffic light system and display a message. The message will let you know if the resolution is too low or if you have a good quality image.
When you upload your design our system will automatically scale it to fit your chosen fabric dimensions. In the ‘Product Options’ tab, the displayed dimensions under ‘Print Size’ will show the dimensions of the piece of fabric that you are ordering. For image/design dimensions you need to see the ‘Images & Text Tools’ tab. You can see and edit the dimensions of the image under the quality information next to the thumbnail.
We advise providing images in the RGB colour space. Specifically using the sRGB image profile, to achieve best colour results. What does this mean? In your editing software choose RGB as the working space, and assign the image profile as sRGB (full name sRGB IEC61966-2.1)
For most of our fabrics, there is no limit on the length of the fabric that you can order. We have a preview design window set up to 10m max to visualise the print, but that's not a print limit. If you'd like to order more, increase the quantity (x2 for 20m or x4 for 40m for example) and then you can order as much as you'd like, with a built-in automatic volume discount too. The maximum print width of each fabric can be found on the individual fabric pages or in our design interface.
Yes, that might help you! Always incorporate any extra space or boarders into your purchased fabric size. We trim squarely around fabric samples and fabric prints, leaving approximately 5mm white space. Cutting neatly on the line has an additional fee.
Crocking, which is fading along the creases, often after washing or heavy use, occurs when you digitally print on natural fabrics - more so when dark or dense colours are used. It can be minimised by using a cool hand wash instead of machine washing as the tumbling of the machine is the main cause of this. To avoid entirely, we would advise using a poly fabric.
Our organic fabrics do not have any coatings that the non-organic fabrics have. This means the ink absorbs into the fibres, reducing the colour strength slightly (by approx. -40%). For super strong colours we recommend a non-organic natural fabric.
Unfortunately not; we like to test meticulously so that we know what gets best results on our fabrics, and our facilities cater perfectly to them. We do however print sublimation paper to order, and if you have access to a heat press you can press your own fabrics easily.
For multi-coloured or very detailed files we recommend using a tiff format, but they must be flattened. For simple colours and low detail files, a jpeg is fine.
Just like many fabric printing processes, there is the potential for shrinkage. Depending on the fabric, please expect and allow between 2-8% shrinkage which you need to plan for in your dimensions. This percentage can vary from print run to print run and between fabrics, so we would advise ordering a little more material than you require for your project.
We do not offer to print on both sides of the fabric. A lot of our fabrics are semi-transparent or have some show through and this wouldn't work with double-sided printing. This is not a service that we offer on any of our fabrics.
At the moment no, our labels are all printed on the same satin fabric. We may introduce more in the future, but for now, this is the best choice. The labels are all cut the same way. You can order the fabric of your choice and make the labels yourself, but we do not cut different fabric into label format.
With environmental consciousness in mind, our fabrics are all printed using completely water-based inks. This means no chemicals or solvents are used. Our heat fixing procedure fixes the colours and prints, avoiding the downsides of steaming, such as excess or contaminated water returning into the waste system. We have one facility in London where we conduct all the printing, production and fulfilment. Rather than roll the fabrics, or send them in a tube, we fold them before they are sent out to you. This saves over 150 tubes a week, as well as a lot of space on the delivery van. (For delicate fabrics we ensure to package appropriately).
We work at improving our colour profiles all the time. Though rare it may happen that from one print run to another, and there could be slight colour differences, this is normal and part of the process when we are constantly improving. It is extremely unlikely that there will be a huge difference (like orange instead of red for example). Please bear in mind such colour variations can be intensified from fabric to fabric due to the varying grains and textures of the fabric; natural fabrics tend to have more muted colours than their poly alternatives. This is due to the construction of the materials as well as the print methods that have to be altered slightly for more delicate, natural textiles.
We have a full Cut & Sew service here at Bags of Love, and are able to hem your fabric prints for a small additional charge. We create a small one- or two-fold hem that typically uses 5 to 20mm of material, depending on the thickness of the fabric. So, for example, if you want a finished piece of fabric that measures 100 x 100cm, you will need to order a size of 101.5cm x 101.5cm to allow for the hem (on top of that please also allow for shrinkage of min 2%). The thicker the fabric, the bigger the hem will be. You can choose to have your prints hemmed with either Black or White thread. On our silk and other light woven fabrics, one hemmed edge will be straight (vertically down the roll) and the other will be slightly rippled. The hemming material allowances are as follows and you need to make your print bigger to accommodate the hem:
For further information about our fabrics see our FAQs.
Please note: As everything we provide is handmade to order, you may find a slight variance in the sizes.
