T-Shirt and Hoodie Printing in Edinburgh

FabricForge prints T-shirts, hoodies, polos and other custom clothing for Edinburgh at its local production house, then delivers the finished order to you. The production house is a working print space rather than a shop, so there is no walk-in service. Reach us on WhatsApp, by phone or by email instead.

There is no minimum order, so one hoodie is as welcome as a hundred crew tees, and discounts begin once you reach 5 items. Everything below is written around Edinburgh itself: the festival months, the universities and hospitals, match days at Murrayfield and Tynecastle, and the districts from Leith to Corstorphine where our deliveries go.

Edinburgh's year, from the Science Festival to Hogmanay

Few cities pack as many annual events into twelve months. Here is what people connected with each one commonly need to wear. Exact dates change annually, so see each organiser's website for what is current.

Spring: April to early June

The Edinburgh Science Festival usually fills about two weeks around Easter, and Beltane Fire Festival lights up Calton Hill at the start of May. The Edinburgh Marathon Festival is usually held in late May, mixing a 10K, 5K and junior races on the Saturday with a half marathon, a marathon and a team relay for groups of four on the Sunday. Volunteers and festival crews usually want one plain tee in a shared colour, while charity runners and relay teams like matching tops with team names.

Summer: June and July

Pride Edinburgh is usually held in June, with a march from the Scottish Parliament to Bristo Square, and groups from workplaces, student societies and community networks tend to order a shared slogan tee. The Royal Highland Show takes over the Royal Highland Centre at Ingliston each June, where exhibitors and stewards often need polos. Leith Festival is usually held in June, with a Gala Day on Leith Links, and its pageant traces back to 1907. The University of Edinburgh holds its summer graduations in the first half of July, when families like matching tees for the photographs.

August: six festivals at once

The International Festival, the Fringe, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the Film Festival, the Art Festival and the Book Festival all land in August. Hundreds of venues and thousands of shows share the month. Touring theatre companies commonly want cast and crew tees, hoodies for the tour bus, and a few polos for front of house. Venue teams and flyering crews need clothing that is easy to spot in a crowd, and some choose hi-vis for street-level work.

Autumn: freshers, walks and fire

The University of Edinburgh's Welcome Week comes in mid-September each year, which is when society committees look for hoodies. The Edinburgh Kiltwalk is usually held in September, when charity teams like one matching colour, and Samhuinn Fire Festival closes October on Calton Hill, where volunteers and performers need dark, easily spotted tops. Murrayfield hosts Scotland's autumn rugby in November, and supporters' groups often order matching tops for a match-day trip.

Winter: Christmas, Hogmanay and the Six Nations

Edinburgh's Christmas runs from mid-November into early January, Christmas at the Botanics follows in the same season, and the Royal Lyceum stages a festive production over the holiday weeks. Hogmanay brings the Torchlight Procession and the street party, then the Loony Dook at South Queensferry on New Year's Day. Market stall teams, stewards and dook groups commonly want matching tops or hoodies. Burns Night on 25 January and the Six Nations home matches at Murrayfield in February and March keep supporter and party orders coming.

Who orders in a city of universities, hospitals and a parliament

The entries that follow set out what each body is, then who within it might want clothing and which garments and prints would suit them. Committees, ward teams and volunteer coordinators can skim to their own section.

Universities and colleges

Founded under a royal charter of 1582 and open since 1583, the University of Edinburgh is one of Scotland's four ancient universities, with three colleges and roughly 39,000 students. Halls of residence, course years and sports clubs each tend to want their own hoodie, and the society hoodie page shows how a committee can gather sizes and sign off one design.

EUSA is the students' union at the University of Edinburgh. It runs bars, catering outlets and shops across Teviot Row House, Potterrow, the Pleasance and King's Buildings, and oversees more than 280 affiliated societies. With that many committees, matching stallholder tees for freshers' fairs and volunteer tops for union events are obvious jobs, plus a hoodie for every member.

Heriot-Watt began in 1821 as the School of Arts of Edinburgh, described as the world's first mechanics' institute, and received its royal charter in 1966. Riccarton is its home campus, and the Watt Club alumni group dates from 1854. Open-day ambassadors, project teams and student societies could wear coloured hoodies with a department name across the shoulders.

Oriam opened in August 2016 on the Riccarton campus as Scotland's national centre for elite sport, with an indoor 3G pitch, a twelve-court hall, squash courts and a hydrotherapy pool. Coaches and holiday-camp leaders need name-and-role polos they can be spotted in, while visiting squads want numbered training shirts.

Named for the mathematician John Napier, Edinburgh Napier grew out of a technical college founded in 1964 and became a university in 1992. Its three main campuses are Merchiston, Craiglockhart and Sighthill. A graduating class might print every classmate's name down a hoodie back, and clubs from each campus can print a crest for the front.

Queen Margaret University stands in Musselburgh and is known for drama, health sciences and public relations; its origins lie in a cookery school founded in 1875. Drama students staging showcases look for black crew tees, and a PR cohort running a campaign week may prefer polos with a campaign logo.

Edinburgh College is Scotland's largest college, created on 1 October 2012 from three older colleges and now spread over Midlothian, Granton, Milton Road and Sighthill. Its courses range from creative industries and engineering to construction and hospitality. That variety points to branded workwear and hi-vis for trade students, plus polos for hospitality classes who serve at college events.

Hospitals, health board and hospices

One of the fourteen regional boards of NHS Scotland, NHS Lothian was set up in 2001 and serves the City of Edinburgh with East, Mid and West Lothian, home to nearly 900,000 people. Among roughly 26,000 staff there are fundraising committees, wellbeing days and recruitment events, all of which need tees, tote bags for information packs, or hi-vis for those marshalling a charity walk.

Little France has housed the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh since 2003, but the hospital goes back to 1729 and is Scotland's oldest voluntary hospital. A teaching hospital of the University of Edinburgh Medical School, it offers a transplant service found nowhere else in Scotland for the liver and pancreas. Ward charity teams and medical student societies can ask for sponsored-run tees and society hoodies.

In Craigleith, the Western General Hospital hosts a major national cancer research and treatment centre. Cancer fundraisers tend to want a single bold colour so a walking group reads as one team, with a ward, family or in-memory slogan on the back.

Opened on 23 March 2021 beside the Royal Infirmary, the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People replaced the old Sick Kids site and has its own emergency department and helipad. Playful, bright artwork suits children's fundraising, so a sponsored-run group or a school raising funds for the hospital could have full-colour tees with a cartoon design.

Morningside Place has been the address of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital since the 1800s; it was founded in 1809 and provides mental health care, including the Rivers Centre clinic for post-traumatic stress. Awareness walks and wellbeing-week teams linked to mental health causes might choose calm colours, a short hopeful slogan and a tote bag for leaflets.

St John's Hospital sits in Howden, Livingston, and opened in 1989 as a general acute teaching hospital with an emergency department, a maternity unit and specialist burns and plastic surgery services. West Lothian staff social clubs can order hoodies for a team night out, and local fundraisers need tees for sponsored walks.

Giving palliative and hospice care at no cost to people across Edinburgh and the Lothians, St Columba's Hospice Care operates from Boswall Road, with inpatient beds, Hospice at Home and a wellbeing programme. Volunteers at its fundraising events need recognisable tops, and in-memory walkers like matching shirts bearing a loved one's name.

Frogston Road West is where the Marie Curie Hospice Edinburgh provides free specialist care to people with illnesses such as advanced cancer, dementia or heart and lung disease, and to those close to them. Supporters taking on sponsored challenges, plus hospice volunteers, can wear a shared tee in the charity's recognisable colour with a personal dedication on the back. Our charity fundraising page explains how groups get started.

Government, heritage and attractions

With 63 councillors across 17 wards, the City of Edinburgh Council is the local authority for the capital, based at the City Chambers with an office at Waverley Court. Every ward has gala committees, litter-pick volunteers and community sports days, which is where hi-vis vests and plain tees with a neighbourhood name come in.

Standing at Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament building was formally opened on 9 October 2004 and won the 2005 Stirling Prize for its architects, Enric Miralles, Benedetta Tagliabue and RMJM. Campaign groups gather around it, and Pride marchers have assembled outside it, so a march contingent may want slogan tees in one colour.

Edinburgh Castle crowns Castle Rock at the head of the Royal Mile. It shelters the Honours of Scotland, the Stone of Scone, Mons Meg and the One O'Clock Gun, welcomes visitors from around the world, and is also an army regimental headquarters. Guides taking tour parties around and teachers shepherding school trips often favour a bright, easily spotted top.

National Museums Scotland is the public body, formed in 1985, that runs the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street, the National War Museum at the Castle, the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune and the National Museum of Rural Life. Learning-team polos, volunteer hoodies for family days and tote bags with exhibition artwork for school workshop packs all fit its sites.

Founded in 1670 to grow medicinal plants, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is the second oldest botanic garden in the UK and has a herbarium of over three million specimens across four Scottish sites. Garden volunteers and seasonal stewards for Christmas at the Botanics work outdoors in the dark, so warm hoodies and hi-vis are practical.

An 82-acre non-profit park in Corstorphine, Edinburgh Zoo opened in 1913 under the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and was the first zoo in the world to keep and breed penguins. Keepers' sponsored-run teams and holiday-club leaders could wear animal-print artwork in full colour, and children enjoy a tee with their own favourite species.

Theatres and concert halls

Owned and run by the City of Edinburgh Council, the Usher Hall opened on 16 March 1914 and seats about 2,200 in the West End. It hosted the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest. Ushers and bar teams look sharp in matching polos, while stage crew work in black hoodies.

Category A listed with 658 seats, the Royal Lyceum Theatre on Grindlay Street opened in 1883 and was the first theatre in Britain with an iron safety curtain. During a run like A Christmas Carol, cast tees, usher polos and a crew hoodie for the wings would all see regular use.

Starting in 1962 as a club in James Court and settled on Cambridge Street since 1992, the Traverse Theatre commissions new plays and welcomes visiting companies each August for the Fringe. Small companies sharing its stages might print a title and cast list on crew tees, while writers' groups prefer simple black hoodies.

Football, rugby and show grounds

Formed in 1874 and nicknamed the Jam Tarts, Heart of Midlothian play at Tynecastle Park in Gorgie, a ground holding roughly 20,000. Supporters' clubs and junior fan sections order maroon tops with a surname on the back, and groups walking the Maroon Mile before matches like a shared slogan.

Hibernian, the Hibees, were founded in 1875 and play at Easter Road, which holds about 20,000. Family supporters on an away day, birthday parties for young fans, and fan clubs organising a bus trip can order matching shirts, with a nickname instead of a surname on the back if they prefer.

Murrayfield Stadium opened on 21 March 1925 and seats 67,144, owned by the Scottish Rugby Union and home to the national team. It has also staged concerts and other sports. Match-day stewards and hospitality staff need polos, and supporters travelling from clubs elsewhere in Scotland want a group top for the trip. See team kit printing for club orders.

Founded in 1872, Edinburgh Rugby is one of Scotland's two professional rugby union teams and plays in the United Rugby Championship. Youth players at the city's clubs, coaches running summer camps and fans heading to the Murrayfield fixtures can all use training tees and numbered shirts.

Every June the Royal Highland Show fills the Royal Highland Centre at Ingliston: Scotland's biggest annual agricultural show, organised by the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society, drawing up to 190,000 people since 1822. Exhibitors want stand polos, livestock handlers a durable top, and young farmers' groups a matching hoodie.

Visitor attractions, distilling and travel

Housed in the former goods shed of St Leonards railway station, Holyrood Distillery opened to the public in 2019 as the city's first new distillery in nearly a century and released its first single malt, Arrival, in 2023. Tour hosts and tasting-room staff look the part in dark polos, with a tote bag for the gift counter.

In royal service from 1954 to 1997, the Royal Yacht Britannia is now moored at Ocean Terminal in Leith as a visitor attraction with over 300,000 visits a year. Deck guides and volunteers suit navy polos, and school-party leaders can carry totes.

Turnhouse Aerodrome in 1916 became Edinburgh Airport, one of the busiest airports in Scotland. Ground teams need hi-vis, while charity bag-pack volunteers and staff social groups can have tees printed with a simple logo.

Organisations and events named here are local context only; FabricForge is not linked to, endorsed by or working with them.

Leith, Portobello, Corstorphine and beyond

Orders leave the production house for addresses across the city. The Old Town and the Grassmarket, the planned Georgian grid of the New Town, the West End and Broughton are the central neighbourhoods, with Tollcross and Lothian Road close by. South of the centre, the Southside, Newington and the Meadows are student-heavy, Marchmont is dense Victorian tenements shared by students and families, and Bruntsfield and Morningside are the village high streets beyond. Along the Water of Leith you find Dean Village and Stockbridge, famous for its Sunday market.

On the coast, Leith, The Shore and Newhaven carry the port's history: Leith's harbour dates back to the 14th century and it was Scotland's main trading port in the 18th century. Portobello has its beach and promenade, Cramond sits at the estuary, Duddingston and Colinton are old villages, and Corstorphine, home to Edinburgh Zoo, is a western suburb. We also deliver to Gorgie, Dalry and Haymarket, to Granton, and out to Riccarton, Ingliston and South Queensferry. Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian addresses are welcome, though the quote confirms the delivery arrangements for each.

Sending an Edinburgh order: a short walkthrough

• Message first. Start from the quote page or simply send your artwork, or a rough idea, by WhatsApp or email, with the garments, sizes and quantities you need.
• Check the proof. We return a visual proof. Every name, number and logo is checked on that proof before anything is printed, and nothing goes ahead until you approve it.
• Printing. Your order is produced at the Edinburgh production house.
• Delivery. The finished clothing is delivered to your door or venue. Your quote states how long delivery should take and whether it carries a charge, so you know before you commit.

What goes on the garment

Tote bags, scrubs, hi-vis and workwear sit alongside the T-shirts, hoodies and polos. Everything is printed by DTF, which gives full-colour artwork with photographs, gradients and fine detail on cotton and many blends, so a Fringe poster design or a multicolour society crest is no harder than a single-colour logo. Names and numbers sit comfortably on the back, which suits relay teams, supporters' groups and cast lists. If you want to understand the method, read about DTF T-shirt printing.

Timing a group order around the Edinburgh calendar

Because so many events cluster in August, the sensible approach is to start talking to us as soon as your cast, crew or committee is settled, rather than when you arrive in the city. For Welcome Week, society committees are wise to agree designs over the summer. For Hogmanay and the Christmas markets, sizes are easiest to gather in October. Charity walks and the late-May marathon weekend benefit from an early headcount, and runners can add names at the proof stage. Fixed turnaround promises are never made up front; the quote gives the timing for your own job.

For festival crews, there is a useful page on festival and event T-shirts.

Edinburgh printing questions

Can a Fringe company order tees and have them delivered to Edinburgh in August?

Yes. Send the cast and crew sizes, your artwork and the address where you will be staying or rehearsing. We prepare a proof for approval, print at the Edinburgh production house and deliver. Share your performance dates early so the quote can address timing.

Do you print names and numbers for a team relay squad?

Yes. Give us each runner's name or number and we place them on the back of every top, with the team name or logo on the front. Because every name is checked on the proof before printing, you can fix a misspelling before it matters.

Can a society at Napier or Heriot-Watt order hoodies for the start of term?

Yes. Committees from any Edinburgh university or college can order. Send the crest, your sizes and a rough headcount, and we will quote. Nothing is too small, and 5 items or more brings a discount.

Do you deliver outside the city, such as East Lothian or South Queensferry?

Yes, we serve addresses beyond the city boundary, including Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian and South Queensferry. What delivery involves, and whether it costs extra, depends on the postcode and appears in your quote before you approve anything.

Our group is doing the Loony Dook. Can you print matching hoodies?

Yes. Hoodies are popular for the Hogmanay and New Year period. Send your design, sizes and the date you need them by, and we will return a proof and quote. Order well ahead, as December is busy and timing is only confirmed in the quote.

Can a Leith community group print a full-colour banner design on tees?

Yes. Full-colour DTF printing copes with photographs and gradients, so a detailed Leith Festival or Gala Day design can go straight onto a tee. Share the file, and we will check how it looks on a proof before printing.

Can I come to the Edinburgh production house to see samples?

No. There is no public counter or walk-in access at the production house. Message us on WhatsApp, call or email instead, and we will talk you through garments and print options, then send a proof for your approval.

Is there a minimum order for a small supporters' group?

Not at all, so a handful of match-day tops is fine. A discount kicks in at 5 items. Tell us the garment, sizes and any names or numbers, and your quote will show exactly what is included.