Atelier Tropique — Island of Key West

Atelier Tropique

Island of Key West

Atelier Tropique

ATELIER TROPIQUE IS A PRIVATE PRODUCTION HOUSE FOR GARMENT, PRINT, MATERIAL TESTING AND EXPERIMENTATIONS IN PHYSICAL MATTER.

A/T — 01 / Current Work

Souvenir / Season Two

Rope Drop Club / Season One

03Japanese Import
06Spark Start Puff Cloud

A/T — 02 / House Standards

02

Testing methods

03

Cure profiles

04

Recipe archive

05

SKU records

06

Process development

07

Preserve the master

A/T — Acquisition Register

01 / Core Production Equipment

Compact conveyor dryer suitable for water-based ink
Compact infrared flash dryer
Professional heat press for puff DTF and specialty transfers
Existing manual screen-print press
Appropriate platens for standard, oversized and specialty placements

02 / Water-Based Printing System

Premium Matsui water-based inks
Opaque white
Clear / transparent base
Pigment concentrates for custom color mixing
Retarder / open-time additive
Fixer / crosslinker as required
Stretch / specialty additives where useful
Polyester / 50-50 bleed-blocking solution
Precision scales, mixing cups, spatulas and labeled ink containers

03 / Screens + Printing Supplies

High-quality aluminum screens in several mesh counts
Water-resistant emulsion
Professional squeegees in several durometers
Scoop coaters
Screen tape / blockout
Water-based pallet adhesive
Registration tools
Cleaning and reclaim chemistry

04 / Curing + Quality Control

Infrared temperature gun
Contact temperature probe / cure strips
Timers
Wash-test blanks
Stretch / adhesion testing supplies
Swatch and recipe archive for every ink, garment and curing combination

05 / Puff DTF + Specialty Transfers

High-quality puff DTF transfers
Standard DTF where useful
Metallic / reflective / dimensional specialty transfers
Heat-resistant finishing sheets / parchment
Press pillows and pads for difficult garment areas

06 / Hand-Painted Souvenir Pieces

Professional textile paints
Textile medium
Fabric inks and pigments
Fine art brushes
Flat brushes and dry brushes
Paint markers
Sponges and texture tools
Rollers / brayers
Masking and resist materials
Stencils
Mixing palettes and containers
Garment boards for painting shirts flat and under tension

07 / Spray-Painted Souvenir Pieces

High-quality aerosol paints compatible with the intended textile process
Textile spray paints / fabric-specific spray color
Refillable sprayers / atomizers
Airbrush + small compressor
Mylar stencil material
Cutting tools
Repositionable stencil adhesive
Masking film
Respirator / appropriate PPE
Dedicated ventilated spray area or booth
Drop cloths and overspray protection

08 / R&D / Archive Materials

Pantone reference
Physical color swatches
Fabric swatch cards
Formula notebook / digital recipe database
Labels for batch numbers
Photography setup for documenting tests
Storage bins for successful and failed samples