Kitbag TeamwearClub kit and sportswear · CaerphillyCaerphilly

The team

Nia on the floor, Rhys in the back.

Nia opened the shop in 2009 with one heat press and a rail of netball dresses. Rhys joined in 2016 to run the print room. Two more help on Saturdays and through August, when every child in Caerphilly needs a PE shirt.

A small sportswear shop with a navy shopfront and club shirts in the window on a Caerphilly street, the castle walls in the distance
Nia Price, a woman in her mid-forties with shoulder-length dark hair, in a navy branded polo shirt, holding a red football shirt up to the camera in a sportswear shop

Nia Price

Owner. Club accounts, schools, the shop floor

Played netball for Wales at under-21 and ran a school uniform shop in Ystrad Mynach for six years before opening Kitbag on Cardiff Road in 2009 with one heat press. Nia runs the club and school accounts, measures every child in August, and still knows which local clubs play in claret and which in maroon, which are not the same thing.

Rhys Thomas, a man in his early thirties with short fair hair and tattooed forearms, in a black T-shirt, lifting the arm of a heat press in a print room

Rhys Thomas

Print room. Embroidery, presses and the club shops

Trained as a graphic designer, spent four years in a Cardiff screen-print shop, and joined in 2016 to run the print room. Rhys digitises every badge, does the sew-outs, runs the six-head machine and the two presses, and built the online club shops. Plays in goal for the vets on Sunday mornings, in a shirt he printed.

  • 9,200garments through the print room a year, pressed or embroidered on Cardiff Road
  • 85clubs with a badge on file, from under-sevens to vets
  • 8local schools whose PE kit we hold in every size
  • 4.8average rating

The print room

What is in the back, and what it does.

Two heat presses

A large-platen press for numbers and sponsors and a small one for names, sleeves and collars, both checked with a thermometer every morning.

A vinyl cutter

Cuts names and numbers in twelve club fonts, including the ones the leagues ask for, in any of thirty colours of flex.

A six-head machine

Embroiders six badges at once in up to fifteen thread colours, with every club's stitch file kept on the computer beside it.

A sew-out wall

Every new badge is stitched once on a scrap of shirt and pinned to the wall when approved. Eighty-five of them so far.

A junior rugby team in new navy and sky kit posing for a team photograph in front of a clubhouse, coaches standing at each end

Number 4

A uniform shop that started printing its own.

Nia ran a school uniform shop for six years and got tired of sending shirts to Cardiff to have numbers put on them. So in 2009 she took number 4 Cardiff Road, bought one heat press, and printed the first set for her nephew's under-nines. The embroidery machine came in 2014, Rhys in 2016, and the sew-out wall has been growing since.

Finding the shop

Build the kit. Borrow the sizes. We print it here.

The kit builder gives the price per player, the total and the date it will be ready; the size sample bag goes to training for a week, free. Send the sizing sheet and the badge and we quote in writing within one working day.

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