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Embroidery: A Professional Look

Embroidery is a process where threads are used to create your logo on an item. It can be one or more colours to match your logo or aesthetic. patchesmania.com is the most durable option and is often painted on hats and polo shirts. For the best, sleekest look, it’s best to use embroidery with smaller and more common logos. Below we will provide 3 tips to optimize your next embroidery.

1. Use a simple logo

The first tip we have is to use a simple logo. Since the embroidery is made of thread, the artwork should have less detail than we would be able to do with dog or silkscreen printing. Logo lines are made of thick thread so simple designs are reproduced by embroidery. Also, solid colours work much better for embroidery than gradients. Gradient with themes is difficult to imitate and the result can sometimes look messy instead of a clean, polished and professional look.

2. Logo Size

The smaller one is better for embroidery (but not too small). You can metaphorically and literally consider a garment with too much embroidery. The only exceptions buy custom chenille patches for clubs, sports teams, etc. Also, because line only produces thicker lines than other types of print, all of your fonts need to be at least 0.25” long for the final artwork. Small and thin fonts will no longer be readable and may look difficult to read when sewing. We can always check your logo for size verification, just upload it and our designer can tell you now.

3. Fabric selection

Some fabrics are better for embroidery than others. Harder materials like cotton, canvas, denim, and blends all work well. Thinner or thinner fabrics are not ideal as the embroidery process can damage the item. If you are unsure, our friendly representatives will help advise you.

Digitize custom embroidery designs from graphics

This article discusses the design issues involved in transforming graphic-based artwork into an effective embroidery design. Unlike printing, the embroidery process has many limitations that need to be carefully considered when transitioning from graphic artwork to sewing. These limitations must consider, especially for items with limited embroidery space, such as baseball caps. An experienced embroidery designer (sometimes called a “digitizer”) is required to work around these limitations when digitizing your logo.

Problem area

When a digitizer analyzes artwork for digitization, he or she looks for potential problems that may arise:

• Text length to short from 1/4 inch
• Fine lines and fine details
• Areas with gradients
• Overall image size

Cloth

Text length to short from 1/4 inch

If you want to embroider your logo on a variety of fabrics, never try to embroider text smaller than 1/4 inch. Following these rules will ensure that your logo can sew on anything from fleece to fleece. On the other hand, creating a logo with text so small that it was sewn on a nylon jacket, must have been very uncomfortable to sew on fur or fussy.

Short texts are doable if you limit your clothing choices to nylon or similar fabrics that are easy to sew. Another technique that can sometimes help with short text is to sew the text with a fine thread. The downside of this method is that there will be more thread breaks in the manufacturing process and you have very little colour choice. 

In addition, the use of fine thread can significantly increase the number of design seams resulting in costly application costs. The best way is to make the text a bit larger so that it meets the 1/4 inch rule. In general, short writing general not a concern because the purpose of the embroidery is seen from a distance, and text smaller than 1/4 inch is not easily seen from a distance.

Overall image size

Consider the following artwork to convert into embroidery:

Normal company logo

This raw image is about 1 inch wide by 1/2 inch long. This logo needs to be about 3 inches wide to make a properly sized embroidered logo. You will notice that when zooming in to this size, many small details are lost. Note that the letter C has two distinct patterns near the head and tail areas. With the help of this artwork, the digitizer will guess and the gaps in this area will be filled. It is important to provide the largest and highest quality digitization of artwork you can find. Large graphics compress easily without loss of detail, but not in the opposite case.

Advantages of custom embroidered clothing

Custom embroidered garments have many advantages over printed fabrics, for example, durability and colour choice. However, you have to be very careful and keep a lot in mind when buying embroidered clothing.

Quality should be a top concern, as high-quality garments last longer than cheap varieties. Custom embroidery tends to be more durable and can last much longer than screen-printed fabrics.

Custom embroidery designs on clothing make great personalized gifts because they are so creative and intimate. Embroidery has always existed in the world. And we all carry some type of embroidery. But lately, embroidery is having such an effect.

Embroidery has felt its presence everywhere. You can find young men wearing scarves, kerchiefs, and hats with embroidered motifs, while the women sport handbags and bags with embroidered designs all over them. Some companies have even included their embroidered logos on the shirts they give to their employees.

That is why custom embroidery clothing is a very special industry. A very good gift to give someone. You’ll be able to find some good embroiderers online who take custom orders to make gifts for people on your gift list.

Digitizing sample logos

This is an actual logo that requires digitization, the version is shown on this page has been reduced in size by about 50%:

Lighthouse logo before digitization

The quality of the artwork is excellent and there should be no problem picking out the details of the digitizer. However, you will notice that the text in the design at that time was quite short and not suitable for embroidery. Another problem is that text using a script font is 1/4 inch long but difficult to generate. Another problem is that when the text is enlarged to the right size, the logo will be too wide for a left-handed application. Lighthouse ray gradients are not reproducible in embroidery. The wave highlights are also non-reproducible.

The final product has been modified on many occasions so that it can be reliably reproduced in embroidery.

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