{"id":5887,"date":"2019-07-26T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.maudlinclothing.com\/we-made-merchandise-for-da-weasel-without-knowing-it\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:44:44","slug":"we-made-merchandise-for-da-weasel-without-knowing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.maudlinclothing.com\/en\/we-made-merchandise-for-da-weasel-without-knowing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"We made merchandise for Da Weasel (without knowing it...)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Da Weasel<\/a> announced on 13 July 2019 that they would be reuniting for a special concert at the next edition of NOS Alive (2020). This triggered a media firestorm the like of which had not been seen in Portugal for a long time and Maudlin Merchandise<\/a> found itself right at the epicentre of this fantastic adventure.<\/p>\n\n

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By now we had known for about a month that we were going to produce merchandise for an artist. We didn't know who<\/strong>, we didn't know images or quantities. All we knew was that an agency had booked us for a week of silk-screen production for a secret project and that we couldn't find out until the 13th in the evening. We were excited about the opportunity, although there was also a lot of concern as we knew that it would be a project that would be on pre-sale for only 72 hours (13.07 to 16.07) before the order was placed and the quantities garmented were considerable for the (short) time the merchandise would be on sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Da Weasel T-Shirts<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

In a situation of this scale, there is a huge logistical burden that needs to be taken into account. The clients wanted a very specific t-shirt and cap, which meant we had to import the items to be screen printed and embroidered<\/a>. Given the quantity of items ordered, we had one more factor to consider; not everything was available from a single supplier, so we were forced to make two purchases with immediate delivery from two countries and wait (pray) for the remaining items coming from the USA to arrive in time for production. <\/p>\n\n

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With a pre-sale of this calibre and in these conditions, you never know what will happen. There are too many external factors that we can't control and the only thing we knew was that we had (literally) pallets of clothes in the warehouse and we didn't know what to do with them until the final orders came in.<\/p>\n\n

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Here's everything we didn't know:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n