With this success as motivation, Chris employed a local family and began screen printing this design onto head and armbands. He sold thousands of them, exhibiting at London's ExCel Exhibition centre to a crowd of 35,000. This was his entry into commercial screen printing.
How a hobby in t-shirt screen printing became a business
For owner/operator, Chris Pye, his passion for screen printing began in a hillside village in Indonesia, back in 2004.
Chris was watching a villager who was holding up an A3 size wooden frame towards the sun. The man washed the screen with water, and right before Chris' eyes, an image appeared. Inspired by what he saw, he purchased the screen, took it back to England and began knocking out the same. An instinct for the market told him it would sell worldwide, and he wasn't wrong. The design was the shahada, the testification of faith for Muslims.