You may of just not known the name either. Well, I was looking around and I found out how to make one if you all wanted to know how.
Making the Armband:
To start the armband, you need plain black fabric (I used an old T-Shirt), a measuring tape, and white chalk. The armband will be aprox. 12" long x 4" wide, leaving room for hems, and varying depending on your arm's size. Use the chalk and measuring tape to draw guilines onto the fabric, and cut it out.
Cut out six pieces of black ribbon of equal sizes to tie the armband sides together. Fold down the 12" long sides slightly and add a ribbon on each end, and sew them on, so there are four ribbons on the armband. Next, sew one ribbon in the middle of each of the four inch sides, and then hem the 4" sides folding the ribbon back.
Decorating the Armband:
The design on the armband looks like this:
1. One way to apply this design is to use Iron-on Transfer Paper, which is avalible at office supply stores. Purchase transfer paper made for dark fabrics, and follow the instructions on the package.
2. A second way to get this design is embroidery. Learn how to embroider here:
http://kootoyoo.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-embroidery-on-dark-fabric.html
3. One last way to get this design on the armband is to use fabric paints. Don't use fabric markers, seeing as the armband is a dark color. Fabric paints are avalible in craft stores, and stores such as Wal-mart.
Found at: http://themikeywayproject.tripod.com/id2.html
