Custom Clothing Printing in Swansea and South West Wales
By The Velocity Wear Team
For custom clothing printing in Swansea, Velocity Wear is an online supplier producing printed and embroidered apparel from a 20-piece minimum, delivered across Swansea, Neath, Port Talbot and South West Wales on a tracked service. Screen printing suits club and society volume, embroidery suits staff and coaching kit, and DTF covers detailed short runs.
Two Calendars Drive Everything
Swansea's ordering is unusually concentrated around two fixed calendars. Swansea University and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David generate a term-dated surge of society and course hoodies, with wide size spreads and immovable freshers deadlines. Rugby and football clubs across the city and the surrounding valleys order training kit and coaching wear ahead of pre-season. Both are known a year in advance, and both regularly get left until it is tight.
Splitting a Club Order Properly
Club requirements are not one thing, and treating them as one is where cost gets wasted.
- Match kit — sublimated polyester where numbering and edge-to-edge design are needed, sitting at the longer end of production times.
- Training tops — ordered in greater quantity than match kit because they are worn far more often.
- Coaching and touchline wear — embroidered softshells or fleeces, specified for standing in Welsh weather rather than playing in it.
- Supporter and leisure kit — printed tees and hoodies, sold to members, often funding the rest of the range.
Consolidate for Cost
Bulk discounts reach up to around 40% as quantities rise, and a club ordering those four categories separately lands far lower on the discount curve than the same total placed as one run. For clubs with several teams or age groups, coordinating across the whole club rather than per side produces a materially better per-piece cost — and keeps the kit visually consistent between teams, which ordering separately rarely does.
“"Every club that ordered in one run got better kit for less money than the club that ordered four times."”
Minimums and Mixed Sizes
The minimum is 20 pieces per order with sizes mixed freely inside the run, which matters for a society with a broad membership or a club fitting juniors and adults together. Run the actual numbers through the free instant price calculator before setting the price you charge members, so the collection covers the order rather than leaving a shortfall.
Lead Times Into South West Wales
Production begins at artwork approval rather than order placement. Screen printing and embroidery typically run around 10–15 working days from approval, sublimation and complex jobs nearer 15–20, plus 2–5 working days tracked delivery into Swansea, Neath, Llanelli and across the region. Sponsor artwork is the usual bottleneck on club orders — collect it first rather than last.
Handing Over to Next Year's Committee
Societies and clubs reorder the same kit for years, but the people placing the order change annually. Record the garment code, colour, logo and sponsor dimensions, placement and print colours, and pass them on. That written specification is the difference between next year's hoodie matching and merely resembling this year's. Preview designs in the free Design Studio before approving.