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We had an prospective embroidery customer upset with us some days ago and we’ve been thinking about this interaction since. The call started innocently enough. The customer wanted to get a quote for embroidering his logo on shirts and jackets. We explained that the price depended upon two things: the complexity of the logo to be embroidered, and the type …
With embroidered custom apparel, one of the biggest challenges can be thread color selection. That may seem like a nonsensical issue at first, but consider the two main issues: While there are thousands of Pantone colors, there are only hundreds of thread colors. The apparent color of thread is affected by the angle of view and the direction of the …
A customer recently called asking us if we could create custom embroidered jackets for his car club. Of course we said we would love to do that, and we just needed to see the club’s logo in order to provide an estimate. “Well, that’s where there’s a problem,” he said. “We don’t have a logo; we just have some photos …
NUMBER 5: The embroidery shop is aligned with a single supplier. One of the top suppliers to the embroidery and screen printing world offers a nice service to decorators like us. They are eager to help new decorators get off the ground and will help the decorator build a “custom” website with a full catalog. Want to know how to spot one of …
The image above shows different beanies embroidered with the logo of one of our clients. If you were the client, which one would you prefer? When most people think of workwear embroidery, they usually think in terms of embroidered caps, shirts, and jackets. Caps, shirts, and jackets are a relatively easy medium with which to work. Most embroidery shops with decent …
We have general policy to not do work on customer-supplied items. As early as 2010 we wrote blog posts about five reasons why we instituted this policy. Nevertheless, every once in a blue moon we will find a peculiar circumstance that causes us to waive this for a particular client. This holiday season, we granted three waivers. “Maybe this time …
Periodically we have to dig through a box of old stitchouts of logos. During this process, we sometimes come across the embroidered logo stitchout we did for the Pointe du Hoc Foundation, whose original art is featured below. We always stop for a moment, partly to contemplate the challenge that cliff represented to those troops, and partly to admire the detail …
Every day we take calls from customers asking for quotes for various embroidery and screen printing jobs. We win some. We lose some. If we were losing all of them, we would interpret that as a signal that our pricing was too high. Conversely, if we were winning all of them, it would be wise to contemplate raising prices. We …
Some industries need workwear that goes beyond just being heavy duty. Some companies need embroidered workwear that can protect workers from flash fires, molten material, and electrical arc flashes. There is specialized work wear for those industries and specialized embroidery thread for this purpose. Bulwark is a line of a work apparel that is designed to protect the wearer from electrial …
