Six Ways to Decorate | More Ways to Profit This Holiday Season
How a USA-made product and print partner helps screen printers, embroiderers, and decorators say “yes” to late-season holiday orders without stopping their own presses.
By late October, most decorators already have their customers’ holiday programs in motion: employee appreciation gifts, client thank-yous, holiday party giveaways, and seasonal fundraisers. Many of those customers have picked something beyond the T-shirt from partners like Bandanna Warehouse, including holiday- and winter-themed bandannas, pet triangles for the four-legged family members, and cozy woven jacquard blankets, all ready to be customized.
It’s a smart choice. Gift recipients are getting pickier about what they keep. In a 2026 holiday gift survey of more than 500 employees, half ranked office products among their least favorite gifts, while 43% said they regularly wear apparel gifts. Wearable, useful, keepable products are winning the holiday gift table.
But as most apparel decorators know, saying “yes” to these additional holiday rush orders is one thing; delivering on them is quite another.
A shop already running at capacity can’t necessarily stop its presses to accommodate another holiday order, particularly when that order requires a specialty decoration method or an unfamiliar product. And the usual fallback, a contract decorator, is often bracing for the same rush you are. While the additional revenue is welcome, taking on more work shouldn’t mean compromising existing production schedules, overextending employees, or sacrificing quality.
Bandanna Warehouse helps connect decorators’ customers to the perfect gifts. Now let them handle the decorating during rush season or have your holiday blanks and novelty designs shipped out in one to two days.
They are set up to be your product and print partner. Here’s how.
Call: 800-849-3322
Speed Without the Scramble
For decorators who need a partner to provide unique, custom holiday gifts along with made-in-the-USA inventory and decorating services, Bandanna Warehouse is ready. The Greenville, South Carolina, company has been a wholesale bandanna supplier since 1946. It works hand-in-hand with U.S. mills and finishers, Hamrick Mills in Gaffney, South Carolina, and Tryon Finishing in Tryon, North Carolina, and its custom blankets are woven on jacquard looms in North Carolina. With the cloth, finishing, and decorating all handled domestically, there’s no overseas shipping leg standing between your customer’s art approval and their delivery date.
Custom orders can move in as little as five working days. Here’s how the holiday timelines break down. In-stock items ship straight from the warehouse. Custom orders are counted in working days from e-proof approval to ship date, and transit time is additional.
Get Started Before the Rush
Bandanna Warehouse works with decorators through wholesale accounts, with a $100 minimum order priced by total quantity (ordered in even dozens per style or color). New customers who register for online ordering receive 10% off their first online order, and decorators can request a free four-pack sales kit to put real samples in front of customers. To start a holiday order, call 1-800-849-3322, email sales@bandannawarehouse.com, request a quote, or complete the new customer application.
Custom Decorated
(working days from e-proof approval to ship date):
- Christmas and holiday novelty print bandannas and pet wear
- Holiday solid-color and paisley bandannas
• Screen-printed bandannas and pet wear: 5–8 working days
• Heat transfer bandannas and pet wear: 8 working days
• Embroidered bandannas and pet wear: 8 working days
• Christmas-, holiday-, and winter-theme custom woven blankets for corporate gifts: 5–8 working days
• Full-color to photographic digitally printed bandannas, scarves, and pet wear: 10 working days
• Larger-quantity rotary-printed, PMS color-matched, 100% cotton bandannas: 10 working days
• Duplex-printed bandannas: 10 working days
Ready to ship within 24–48 hours of blank goods stock order (no decoration):
Holiday order-by dates:
To ship before Christmas, approve e-proofs customer design layouts for screen-printed, heat transfer, embroidered, and woven blanket orders, or digital, rotary, and duplex orders. Place in-stock orders by 8-10 working days before the customer’s in-hands date .
The printing partnership allows decorators to say “yes” to more orders without tying up their own equipment, labor, and time.
More Methods, More Possibilities
SCREEN PRINTING
Let’s dive a little deeper into the in-house decorating processes. Each one is tailored to deliver the top-notch quality your customers expect, because an eye-catching product starts with an eye-catching design, especially when it comes to holiday gifting. Bandanna Warehouse’s six in-house, USA-made imprinting processes each bring different advantages, designed to elevate its products a step above others.
Up first is screen printing, the most popular method Bandanna Warehouse offers, with the largest imprint area.
Other considerations:
• One to four colors
• 18″ x 18″ imprint area on a 22″ bandanna; all designs must have a border, since screen printing doesn’t print edge to edge
• Low 50-piece minimum
• Suggested Holiday Application: Custom bandannas for employee holiday parties or branded giveaways
DIGITAL PRINTING
If your customer or order requires a different method, there are plenty more in the Bandanna Warehouse bag. Next up is digital printing, where full-color to photographic prints come to life. Designs are printed on white cloth, so colors stay true, and edge-to-edge or step-and-repeat logo layouts are possible. If your customer is looking for fine-detail printing, this is the method.
Other considerations:
• Choice of three fabric constructions
• Printed on one side; the back stays white
• Low 50-piece minimum
• Suggested Holiday Application: Detailed holiday artwork or commemorative designs (think exclusive holiday concert merch)
ROTARY PRINTING
Perhaps your customer needs a large quantity of custom-printed holiday bandannas for a nonprofit fundraising event, and they’re very budget conscious. Enter rotary printing, the lowest-cost process per piece. Get more colors, faster production, and a softer-feel bandanna, printed on white cloth with water-based, PMS-matched pigment inks that absorb into the fabric. Initial screens are included in pricing.
Other considerations:
• Up to eight colors (with certain restrictions)
• 3,000-piece minimum
• Suggested Holiday Application: High-volume seasonal promotions or nonprofit fundraisers
More Methods, More Possibilities
DUPLEX PRINTING
For holiday orders that call for something truly special, consider duplex printing, an exclusive method offered by Bandanna Warehouse. The fabric is printed on both sides with water-based pigment inks for full saturation, producing a result so crisp that it may be mistaken for a woven design.
Other considerations:
• One- or two-color design (art must be reviewed)
• 3,000-piece minimum
• Suggested Holiday Application: Premium holiday merchandise (think C-suite gifts) featuring coordinated designs on both sides
DIGITAL HEAT TRANSFER
In years past, Bandanna Warehouse brought four imprinting methods to the partnership table. That’s not the case anymore! The company now offers both heat transfer and embroidery for extra partnership power.
Heat transfer is the versatility solution, perfect for smaller runs or designs requiring sharp edges and controlled application. It works on both solid colors and novelty pattern bandannas, which opens up a fast holiday combination: your customer’s logo on one of Bandanna Warehouse’s in-stock holiday prints.
Other considerations:
• Up to 5″ x 5″ full-color to photographic transfer
• Low 50-piece minimum
• Suggested Holiday Application: Custom pet bandannas, small-batch seasonal merchandise for schools or family events, or a branded logo added to a holiday novelty print
EMBROIDERY
And finally, for that truly traditional, classic holiday look, embroidery packs a punch for the customer looking to pair a fresh product with timeless elegance. This method adds texture, dimension, and perceived value.
Other considerations:
• Up to an 18″ x 18″ custom logo and design area
• Low 50-piece minimum
• Suggested Holiday Application: Elevated corporate gifts for healthcare teams, contest winners, VIP donors, and more
Wrap It Up with a Woven Blanket
For customers who want to go bigger, Bandanna Warehouse’s USA-made, 100% cotton jacquard blankets are a premium holiday gift with real staying power. Every design is woven directly into the blanket rather than surface printed, so logos and artwork won’t crack or fade. Blankets come in four sizes: 54″ x 72″, 54″ x 62″, 62″ x 62″, and 62″ x 84″. Decorators can order a $29.95 spec sample to show customers before they commit. They make a natural fit for employee and VIP gifts, donor recognition, real estate closing gifts, and the centerpiece of a holiday gift bundle
A Partnership Built for the Holiday Rush
As the holiday season ramps up and 2026 winds down, decorators aren’t just looking to say “yes” to more orders; they’re looking to say “yes” to more complex, more customized, and more premium projects without slowing down production or adding equipment. The best decorators are brand partners who work closely with clients to develop the perfect customized order for the season.
The real advantage of a strong printing partnership isn’t simply having someone else produce an order. It’s having the flexibility to pursue business that might otherwise be turned away, whether that means accommodating a last-minute holiday request, fulfilling a larger-than-expected order, or delivering a custom product that requires equipment your shop doesn’t have.
As holiday deadlines approach, decorators shouldn’t have to choose between taking on new business and keeping existing production on schedule. With six decorating methods, USA-made manufacturing, and quick-turn production options, Bandanna Warehouse helps make room for both.
Because the holiday rush should be an opportunity to grow your business, not a reason to turn business away.