Weeding Vinyl With Tape

In theory this is easier to weed for smaller decals than doing it the regular way.

Weeding vinyl with tape.

After you ve smoothed out the tape use a straightedge to firmly press out all the bubbles and creases and bond the application tape to your vinyl. The heat transfer vinyl is stuck down onto a paper and it takes some effort to get it off. Your vinyl is not weeding correctly. It is an easy fix for a few stubborn pieces of backing paper attached to your vinyl.

Next carefully peel the tape off the vinyl backing sheet. Apply transfer tape and apply to surface. Once you get your vinyl on your transfer tape flip it over and weed off the backing paper. Using your weeding tool grab the thin layer of backing like you are weeding a normal design and the backing will come right off.

Some people remove the outer piece of vinyl then transfer the design and weed all the details on top of the sticky transfer tape. If you try to use tape on regular adhesive vinyl the whole thing does come up. Burnish and remove transfer. For adhesive vinyl you can weed directly on the transfer tape.

Reverse weeding is for adhesive vinyl only. I have only found it to work on heat transfer vinyl that you apply to fabric. Weeding off the transfer tape helps the little parts to stay in place because they re stuck to the transfer tape rather than sliding around the vinyl s paper backing. Some people prefer to add a weeding box.

This prevents air pockets that can distort the design. After the design is weeded it is time to apply the transfer tape. The parts that the machine has cut are easier to come up. Cut weed and apply the vinyl weed the vinyl.

Check out the extended post for step by step details. After the design is cut it is time to weed the vinyl. It s where you apply transfer tape across the whole unweeded decal and then weed the excess vinyl away from the transfer tape instead of the carrier sheet. When using removable adhesive vinyl you can save the small details for after you have completely transferred your piece.