Polo T-shirt | Different types of machines, stitch, and seam applies to make a Polo T-shirt

Introduction of a Polo T-shirt: A polo T-shirt is one kind of soft short or long sleeve piece of clothing, which has a collar and placket with two or three buttons in the neck opening. 

A polo T-shirt makes with knitted fabric. The body of the T-Shirt makes with the fabric like pique, single lacost, double lacost, etc. The collar makes with rib fabric and collar stand makes with the rib or any type of knit fabric. The sleeve cuff also makes with the same rib fabric used in the collar.

Polo T-shirt is a soft and flexible garment. People wear it to get more comfortable in their daily working.

However, if you think about how to make a polo T-shirt, you get some steps that need to follow, some machines that need to stitch, and some engineer to plan a machine layout to make the polo T-shirt.

Different Parts and joins of a Polo T-Shirt

Different parts of a Polo T-Shirt:

1. Collar: A collar is a part of the Polo T-shirt. It joins on the top of the T-shirt near the neck opening.

2. Collar Stand: It is the lower part of the collar. It functions of a collar Stand to stabilize the collar and it joins with the body fabric of the polo T-Shirt.

3. Placket: The Placket is a type of parts in the polo T-shirt which join with the front part of body fabric and collar. It has two parts, one is the lower part and another is the front part. The button attaches with the lower part and the button hole creates in the front part. 

4. Label: Label is a trim which used for different purposes in a polo T-shirt. Some of them used as a care label where describes how to care the polo T-Shirt like wash and Iron instruction, Some of them used for brand identity, Some of them used as size identity, etc.

5. Front and Back Part: In a Polo T-Shirt, Two part of fabric used, one is Front part and other is back part fabric. These two parts are joined together in the solder and side position of the polo t-shirt by stitching.

6. Sleeve: Sleeve is the outer part of the T-Shirt that covers our hands. It joins with body fabric in the arm hole position of a Polo T-Shirt. 

7. Sleeve Cuff:  A small piece of rib fabric almost 1-inch join at the end of the sleeve.

8. Body Hem: The lower part of a polo T-Shirt is body hem. It stitches by folding inside the fabric.


Different types of machine, stitch, and seam applies to make a Polo T-shirt:

S. No.	Different Parts	Machine Type	Stitch Types	Seam Types
1	Collar	Single Needle lock stitch	Lock Stitch 301	Lapped seam
2	Collar Stand	Single Needle lock stitch	Lock Stitch 301	Super Imposed
3	Placket	Single Needle lock stitch	Lock Stitch 301	Bound Seam
4	Label	Single Needle lock stitch	Lock Stitch 301	Lapped Seam
5	Front and Back Placket	Single Needle lock stitch	Lock Stitch 301	Lapped Seam
6	Solder	Over Lock Textilesscholars.blogspot.com	Overedge Stitch 502	Edge neatening
7	Armhole	Over Lock	Overedge Stitch 502	Edge neatening
8	Sleeve Cuff	S N lock stitch + Overlock	Lock stitch + Overedge stitch	Top seam + Edge neatening
9	Side Seam	Over Lock	Overedge Stitch 502	Edge neatening
10	Body Hem	3 Thread Flatlock	Lock Stitch	Bound Seam
11	Button stitch	Button Stitch	Buttonhole stitch	Edge neatening

Table - 1: Different types of machine, Stitch, and seam of a polo T-Shirt.

Conclusion: Polo T-Shirt is a top choice of cloth for all people. It is more flexible than any other clothes. In the industries, a polo T-Shirt makes with different steps. Different types of the machine like single needle lock stitch, Flat lock, and over lock, and button stitch machine use to stitch the T-shirt. All of these machines create lock stitch, over edge stitch and button hole stitch for joining different parts of the Polo T-Shirt.

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