Screen Printing & Custom Apparel in Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach runs on the Oceanfront, but the orders come from everywhere in the city. Atlantic Avenue restaurants and surf shops turn over staff tees every season. The ViBe Creative District, Town Center, and Hilltop have the boutiques, breweries, and offices. Great Neck, Kempsville, and Princess Anne bring the schools, rec leagues, and churches. Pungo and Sandbridge run on strawberry season and summer rentals. And with NAS Oceana, Dam Neck, and Little Creek inside the city line, the commands and family readiness groups are a market of their own. We print for oceanfront staffs, school boosters, and squadron runs, and every order ships free.
12-piece minimum · Mix brands, styles and colors · Free UPS Ground in Virginia · 2–3 weeks from paid invoice
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Off the press
Who we print for across Virginia Beach
The Oceanfront & Atlantic Avenue
The resort strip from Rudee Inlet to the North End turns over staff tees every season. Restaurants, surf shops, bike rentals, hotels, and beach bars along Atlantic and Pacific Avenue need front-of-house shirts that look good in photos and back-of-house shirts that survive a summer. Neptune Festival weekend, Something in the Water, and the Shamrock Marathon each bring their own crew and vendor tee orders. We print retail merch on Comfort Colors and Bella Canvas and heavier Gildan for the kitchen.
ViBe Creative District & 17th Street
The ViBe District is the block of murals, studios, coffee roasters, and independent shops between 17th and 19th Street, with the Old Beach Farmers Market anchoring the weekends. The orders that come out of here are small-batch retail merch, artist collaboration tees, market vendor shirts, and event runs for the district's First Friday nights. Single-color prints on garment-dyed blanks fit the neighborhood and keep per-shirt costs down for small shops.
Town Center, Hilltop & Great Neck
Town Center is the office and dining core, Hilltop is the retail and medical corridor along Laskin Road and First Colonial, and Great Neck is the residential neighborhood behind it. Dental practices, med spas, fitness studios, law offices, and restaurants order Pantone-matched polos, employee tees, and client giveaways, and the private schools and swim clubs tucked into Great Neck and Little Neck order spirit wear the same way.
NAS Oceana, Dam Neck & Little Creek
Virginia Beach has NAS Oceana, Dam Neck Annex, and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek inside the city line, and the military economy shapes the whole city. Squadron and command PT shirts, family readiness group tees, deployment homecoming gear, and civilian contractor apparel along Oceana Boulevard and Shore Drive are steady work. Send the unit crest as a vector file with the Pantone numbers, and the colors hold from the first run to the reorder.
Kempsville, Princess Anne & the Schools
Virginia Beach City Public Schools keeps booster clubs busy all year. Cox, First Colonial, Kellam, Ocean Lakes, Landstown, Princess Anne, Kempsville, Green Run, Tallwood, Bayside, and Salem all run spirit wear, senior shirts, band, JROTC, and fundraiser orders. Field hockey and lacrosse are bigger here than almost anywhere in Virginia, and the rec and travel programs at the Sportsplex and Princess Anne Athletic Complex order team shirts by the season. We keep per-piece costs low so booster sales actually raise money.
Chic's Beach, Shore Drive & the Bayfront
Chesapeake Beach and the Shore Drive corridor have their own restaurant and bar scene facing the Bay, plus the Lynnhaven watermen and oyster growers who have turned into local brands. Bayfront restaurants, kayak and paddleboard outfitters, and the neighborhood civic leagues order staff tees and retail merch with a bay theme rather than an oceanfront one. Garment-dyed Comfort Colors in coastal shades are the usual pick up here.
Pungo, Sandbridge & Southern Virginia Beach
South of the Green Line the city turns into farmland and beach. Strawberry stands and u-pick farms in Pungo, the Pungo Strawberry Festival crews, Sandbridge rental companies, surf and fishing shops, churches in Creeds and Blackwater, and the volunteer fire and rescue squads all order shirts. Small runs with a single ink color are common here, and 12 pieces is enough to get started.
Breweries, Gyms & Small Business
Virginia Beach has one of the deepest brewery scenes in the state, spread from the Oceanfront to Kempsville to Shore Drive, and every taproom needs staff tees and retail merch that sells. Add the CrossFit boxes, yoga studios, dance schools, salons, HVAC and roofing crews, and landscaping companies working every neighborhood, and you have the small business orders that make up most of what we print for the city. Reorders are simple because your art file and ink colors are already on record.
Free Shipping to Every Zip Code
Free UPS Ground to every Virginia Beach zip code: 23451 (Oceanfront and North End), 23452 (Lynnhaven and Kings Grant), 23453 (Green Run and Landstown), 23454 (Great Neck and Hilltop), 23455 (Chic's Beach and Bayside), 23456 (Princess Anne, Pungo, and Sandbridge), 23457 (Creeds and Blackwater), 23459 (Fort Story), 23460 (NAS Oceana), 23461 (Dam Neck), 23462 (Town Center and Kempsville), and 23464 (Kempsville and Salem). Turnaround is 2 to 3 weeks from the paid invoice.
How ordering works
Send the art and sizes
Email orders@rvathreads.com or use the contact form with your artwork (vector is best, plus Pantone numbers for any colors you want matched) and a size breakdown.
Get your quote
An itemized per-shirt price, with ink count and print size confirmed, before anything is committed.
Pay the invoice
A paid invoice places the order. Blanks get ordered and your job goes on the schedule.
Printed and shipped
Printed, cured, counted against your breakdown, and shipped free by UPS Ground to Virginia Beach, 2–3 weeks from payment.
Virginia Beach screen printing questions
Do you deliver to Virginia Beach?
Yes. Every order ships free by UPS Ground anywhere in Virginia, so an Oceanfront restaurant, a Kempsville booster club, or a Sandbridge rental office gets it delivered at no charge. Orders arrive 2 to 3 weeks after the invoice is paid.
What's the minimum order?
12 pieces per design. Mix brands, styles, colors, and sizes inside that 12, so a beach bar can put one logo on tees for the deck and tanks for the summer staff in one order. Price it on the quote calculator.
Can you match Cox, Kellam, or First Colonial colors?
Yes. We offer Pantone color matching. Send the Pantone (PMS) numbers and we mix ink to match; the numbers need to be provided for us to color match, since we can't match from a photo, a logo file or a hex code. The same goes for a command crest or a business logo.
Do I need to come to a shop?
No. The whole order runs by email or the contact form: artwork and sizes in, an itemized quote back, a paid invoice places the order, and the finished shirts ship to your door. Vector files help, and Pantone numbers are needed for any color you want matched.
We also print for
NorfolkChesapeakePortsmouthSuffolkHamptonNewport NewsEastern ShoreAll Virginia service areas
Proudly servingOceanfront, North End, ViBe Creative District, Shadowlawn, Birdneck, Hilltop, Great Neck, Little Neck, Lynnhaven, Kings Grant, Chic's Beach, Bayside, Thoroughgood, Town Center, Pembroke, Kempsville, Indian Lakes, Salem, Green Run, Landstown, Princess Anne, Red Mill, Pungo, Sandbridge, Creeds, and Blackwater.