Method of producing edge-printed fabric garment pieces

Method of producing a fabric garment piece, comprising:

• placing a fabric garment piece already provided with flare pleats in a pleating form, holding said garment piece folded together with the form, laying thermal printing paper on the front edges of pleat creases visible in the form so that its color-yielding face lies on the edges of the pleat creases, placing the pleating form, including the flare-pleated garment piece placed therein and the thermal printing paper layed thereon, between the plates of a thermal printing press so that the front edges of the pleat creases extend parallel to the plates, thereafter placing the heated plates, with a pressure sufficient to effect transfer of color, onto the back face of the thermal printing paper placed on the edges, and maintaining the pressure for a time period required for transfer of color from the paper to the edges.