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Sublimation is a heat transfer process which is simple to do and it also creates bright, vivid designs that can be printed all over the fabric.

This gives you the ultimate freedom when you’re creating your design and that’s why it’s a favourite and a regularly used technique in the fashion and art world.

The printing technique uses heat activated dyes which are used to transfer the ink to the textile using the process of turning molecules from a solid into a gas state, without having to move through the liquid state first.

During this process, the heat is applied to the dye which converts it into a gas form.

At the same time, the dye then makes contact with a synthetic material (such as polyester) and, upon exposure to the heat, the fibres in the material open up and allow the dye to permeate into the fibre and then create a permanent bond.

The prints are therefore transferred from the source into the textile.