The Patriot T-Shirt Company is an American, traditional family owned small business. Our designs are created in the spirit of Patriotism, National Pride, and American Exceptionalism. We create all of our designs in-house, manage the online store, personally handle all queries, and process all orders, in addition to managing the parent organization - PatriotTShirtCompany.com - where we produce our Company Forum the Anti-Communism Project, run our Freedom to Liberty Parents Initiative, conduct outreach and fundraisers for the Patriotic American charities we support, and manage the company's social media outlets. All of this in an effort to give patriotic Americans like you an outlet to Wear Your Voice.
Our business model utilizes on demand production to reduce waste, lower costs, and eliminate the need to maintain inventory. When you order from us, your shirt is Made To Order, specifically for you and shipped directly to your door. To bring our designs to you, giving you a way to Wear Your Voice, we've selected two American production partners, each carefully chosen for some very special reasons.
CustomCat
Most of our T-Shirts are printed and shipped by our production partner CustomCat in Detroit, Michigan. We chose to partner with CustomCat after a long selection and vetting process, comparing them against nearly a dozen other potential candidates, and selected them as our primary partner for a number of reasons. First, like us, they're one of the smaller guys in the industry, and maintain a commitment to their local community. They DO NOT make political contributions, and this was a very important consideration for us.
Our next consideration was that they simply do a beautiful job on our artwork. CustomCat utilizes their patented Digisoft induction method to place our designs onto your purchase, and are the only printing company in the country that uses it. Digisoft is a proprietary ink induction technique that's notable for much more vibrant colors and detail than traditional T-Shirt printing methods, and that vibrancy will last through the life of the garment, through countless washings without fading, bleeding, or peeling off. You may notice some initial stiffness in the fabric around the artwork when it first arrives, but this is only a result of a starching process used to ensure the ink-lines stay crisp in production. Rest assured, this goes away after the first 1-2 washes, while your color will remain bright and fade-resistant through the next hundred or more.
Learn more about the Digisoft process here.
And finally, they also maintain an excellent turnaround time on orders. Your order will process into their production que within two hours of placing it. This means the shirt you buy will hit the production line on the same business day or the very next morning at the latest - 7 days a week! You'll usually receive your order in only about 5 days (domestic orders), and this was an additional factor in choosing to partner with them.
Printful
A smaller selection of our T-Shirts are produced in partnership with Printful - an American owned company dedicated to nurturing the growth of creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses through integrated e-commerce platforms. As an industry leader, Printful practically invented the Print on Demand model. On the shirts we produce through them, our original designs are executed beautifully with state of the art DTG induction and will not fade or flake off, but will stand up to countless washings while still remaining as beautiful as the day you receive it. The artwork will have a smooth, soft-feel from the moment you receive it.
We'll admit that our shirts produced through Printful may take just a little longer to reach you - expect up to 7 days for the production process. If ordered from the US or Canada, your shirt will be printed and fulfilled from our affiliate production facility in the great Free State of Texas - made by Americans, for Americans. All products go through an industry benchmarked quality control process before being shipped out, and this is the reason for the slightly longer turnaround time - but good things take time.
Learn more about the Printful quality control process here.
It's precisely this quality control process and their attention to detail that made Printful win us over for the shirts we can't provide to you through CustomCat. A few of our designs utilize sleeve graphics, and these are simply unavailable through CustomCat, which is why we added Printful as our second production partner.
We also chose them to be the exclusive provider of all of the shirts in our International Conservatism Collection. We've been pleasantly surprised to find a demand for our products in Europe, and, believing Conservatism and Patriotism has become a worldwide movement, we launched that collection specifically for European Patriots. To facilitate lower costs and faster shipping for these shirts, we chose Printful to be our exclusive supplier for our International Collection, because they operate facilities in Latvia and Spain where where your shirts are produced by local workers with the same high quality DTG process and go through the exact same quality control process.
Where will YOUR shirt be produced?
It's a common question that's easy to answer.
MOST of our shirts are produced by our partners at CustomCat. They include all of the benefits and features outlined above - the Made in America promise, the Digisoft Printing, the rapid turnaround time - ensuring you'll be supporting not only one, but two American small businesses.
However, any T-Shirt you order with a sleeve graphic or any T-Shirt from our International Collection will be produced and shipped by Printful. If you order any of these domestically in the US or Canada, they will be produced at the Texas facility, and if you order any of these shirts from any EU member nation, they'll be made and shipped from either Spain or Latvia, providing a much lower shipping rate than we could otherwise provide. Please see our Shipping Page for details.
Questions about our production process or partners? Just reach out through our Contact Page.