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Juneteenth sublimation designs

50 juneteenth designs, drawn as full-colour sublimation art, printed rather than cut. The set covers Juneteenth lettering, flag motifs and freedom-day commemorative designs. They are made for shirts for the parade, porch flags, cooler wraps, tumblers and the stars-and-stripes signs that go up on a front door for the first two weeks of July.

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What people make with juneteenth sublimations

Shirts for the parade, porch flags, cooler wraps, tumblers and the stars-and-stripes signs that go up on a front door for the first two weeks of July — those are the pieces this collection gets used for. In this format they go on polyester shirts, poly-coated tumblers, mousepads, ceramic mugs and sublimation blanks — polyester or a poly coating only, never untreated cotton.

Printing and pressing

Sublimation is not a cutting job — nothing here gets weeded. Print onto sublimation paper with sublimation ink, then press at roughly 385–400°F for 45–60 seconds depending on the blank. The ink turns to gas and bonds into the polyester, which is why it only works on polyester or a poly-coated surface, and why it will not show on cotton or on a dark garment.

Getting juneteenth designs right

Sublimation ink bonds only to polyester and polymer coating, so the blank decides the result more than the artwork does — the same file is vivid on a coated mug and washed out on cotton. The red, black and green palette is three registered layers — cut from one origin so they stack true. Red, white and blue is three layers of vinyl, and registration is what makes or breaks it. Cut all three from the same origin so they stack without eyeballing, and press the lightest colour first — white under red stops the shirt colour muddying it.

When to make these

Demand climbs from late May and peaks in the ten days before 4 July, then falls off a cliff on the 5th. Memorial Day and Veterans Day pick the same designs up again. If you sell, that is the window the listings need to be live in — search traffic for a seasonal theme arrives weeks before the date, not on it. Press a sample on the exact blank first. The same design reads noticeably darker on a coated mug than on a poly tee, and a seasonal run is the wrong time to find the gap.

Exporting for your machine

Export PNG at final physical size and at least 300 DPI, then print onto sublimation paper. There is no cut line and no weeding — the design is pressed into polyester, not cut from vinyl.

Cut, score, draw and engrave operations are written as named layers, so Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio and laser software map them to the right tool without manual reassignment. For a printed sheet, the print-then-cut guide covers registration and bleed.

Juneteenth in other formats

The same theme drawn for a different medium — printed, pressed or cut.

More sublimations collections

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Questions

A front-of-shirt design wants 10–11in wide. A porch sign reads from the pavement at 12–18in. Tumbler wraps run 9.3in around a 20oz skinny.

50 files covering Juneteenth lettering, flag motifs and freedom-day commemorative designs, drawn as full-colour sublimation art, printed rather than cut. Every one is a true vector, so it resizes without quality loss and opens straight in the browser studio for editing before export.

Print them. Sublimation designs are pressed into polyester or a poly-coated blank, not cut and weeded — there is no cut line and no weeding. Export PNG at full size and print onto sublimation paper.

Yes — Edit in the browser and export print-ready PNG at 300 DPI for sublimation. In Design Space use Upload → Upload Image; layers arrive separated because each operation carries a distinct fill.

Yes on the paid plan, which includes a commercial licence for the physical products you make and sell — polyester shirts, poly-coated tumblers, mousepads, ceramic mugs and sublimation blanks included. Reselling or redistributing the design files themselves is not permitted on any plan.

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