Weeding Vinyl With Tape

After the design is cut it is time to weed the vinyl.

Weeding vinyl with tape.

This prevents air pockets that can distort the design. Burnish and remove transfer. Next carefully peel the tape off the vinyl backing sheet. After the design is weeded it is time to apply the transfer tape.

Apply transfer tape and apply to surface. Your vinyl is not weeding correctly. Cut weed and apply the vinyl weed the vinyl. Check out the extended post for step by step details.

The parts that the machine has cut are easier to come up. Once your application tape covers the vinyl smooth the surface with long slow sweeps using a squeegee or a credit card. Some people remove the outer piece of vinyl then transfer the design and weed all the details on top of the sticky transfer tape. Reverse weeding is for adhesive vinyl only.

The heat transfer vinyl is stuck down onto a paper and it takes some effort to get it off. I have only found it to work on heat transfer vinyl that you apply to fabric. 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. 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.

Using your weeding tool grab the thin layer of backing like you are weeding a normal design and the backing will come right off. 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. For this method you d want to place the transfer tape over your entire design and then pull the paper backing off the vinyl. In theory this is easier to weed for smaller decals than doing it the regular way.

For adhesive vinyl you can weed directly on the transfer tape. If you try to use tape on regular adhesive vinyl the whole thing does come up. Once you get your vinyl on your transfer tape flip it over and weed off the backing paper. Your design should be safely attached and ready for transfer to the receiving surface.