What makes LTD different
A limited release with a lot of hand work behind it.
Specifically for the LTD Series, every few months we will release a piece limited to 300 units that is our flagship for this mindset. Each of these carefully designed pieces features:
Apparel
Organic Cotton Apparel that is Thoughtfully Sourced & Well Crafted
Art
NEW ART by Founder Chris Adams specifically for the release
Dye
A limited touch like tie dye, grunge dye, in-house garment dye or ice dye
Colorway
Limited print colorway
Printing
Multi-Printing
Ink & dye
Water-based Inks & Quality Reactive Dyes
Limited to 300 pieces
Printed by Chris
LIMITED TO 300 PIECES & Printed by Chris!! This is the real "limited" part of this whole series as well as where we think the value is. As Sporelust! has grown Chris is less & less able to be fully hands-on with printing, but our brand was built on long hours in the studio with one person drawing, printing and shipping every piece. This series is a way to create space for his 15+ years of screen printing (and lifetime of drawing) to offer something to this community that is really special, different every time and still has his hands and care baked in.
Preorder process
What to expect
WHAT TO EXPECT FOR OUR PREORDER PROCESS:
The nature of a Preorder
The nature of a Preorder is that you are ordering something that does not yet exist beyond mock-ups and samples. On this site that means we won't be ordering the blanks until the end of the Preorder window (unless they are a standard we keep in stock). As an example if it's a 2 week window and you order on the first day, we won't even be ordering the blank tees for 14 more days.
Expect 5-7 weeks from the end of the Preorder Window
As a general timeline rule, expect it to take 5-7 weeks from the end of the Preorder Window to get shipped in your direction. That being said, we are always going to try to get this into the studio, dyed, printed and shipped to you as soon as possible.
Delays are inevitable
Delays are inevitable! This becomes exponentially more true when we start adding custom blanks to these drops. We will do our best to keep this window as short as possible, but it seems very likely that we'll start needing to include custom cut & sew, custom garment dye for non-standard color options and the potential accents that are not standard. We will communicate specific timeline changes as they happen, but try to be patient and remember you're buying a slow piece of apparel that has a higher price point because it's a thoughtful & custom object.
Please be patient & kind
Please be patient & kind. We are a very small team––sometimes it's only Chris in the studio––so please keep in mind that you are (hopefully) supporting our artist-run brand because we are thoughtful about how things get made, and want to provide products that are not heat press transfer tees from Amazon or some other faceless, soul-sucking group that just wants to sell you tees.
Craft details
Limited print colorway
While the artwork may appear later on other Sporelust! goods, it will never look like it looks on these pieces.
Multi-Printing
It won't happen on every piece, but most LTD drops will include some type of second, third to 20th printing that is varied on each piece. From the screen printing angle this means setting up multiple extra screens, mixing more custom inks and running each shirt through the printing & curing process for each extra print.
Important fit note
If you are between sizes, size up.
Because many of these drops are custom dyed in-house, please size up if you are on the cusp between two sizes!!!!! We do our best to dry these on as low heat as possible, but occasionally they still have noticeable shrinking, and that means we should expect them to be a little smaller than a standard-sized tee. We've particularly had issues with long sleeve tees in sizes L & XL being too small, so if you're in that window, SIZE UP!