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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 …
If you really want your screen printed t-shirts and hoodies to stand out from the crowd, consider going with an oversized image to create a watermark effect on your garment. One of our clients is a youth motocross racing club from south of the Seattle-Bellevue area in Washington. For a number of years, they just went with a basic two …
“How quickly can I get some custom patches made?” is a question we commonly get. We had a customer contact us and explain that he needed 20 patches within five days. We asked for art to estimate the job. The only art available initially was this. While we are sometimes able to work some magic with the art customers supply, …
We were contacted about a potential embroidery or screen printing job by a Home Depot store near Tacoma, WA. The store had won a regional sales award and the manager was was looking for a way to recognize and reward its 150+ employees when the store was to be visited by senior executives. We started off talking about embroidered sports …
We had an inquiry from a potential client in New York about embroidered luggage. This person asked why every shop he had contacted had said it could not be done while we have a blog post that talks about how it is possible to embroider luggage. He supplied the photo featured above. Why this cannot be successfully accomplished is actually a two …
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 …
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 …
Dialing in the coloring with four color process screen printing is part software, part artistic judgment. We recently took a call from a Corvallis, Oregon customer, about 50 miles south of Portland. The customer needed this logo screen printed onto 100 t-shirts in time for the Washington State Fair, which is held about 50 miles south of Seattle. The lion’s share …
Dear Graphic Designers, With all due respect to you and your profession, may we humbly suggest that there may a hole in your perspective? This is a hole that your clients may be discovering long after your design work has been completed and approved with great fanfare. This hole may be causing your magnificent logo creation to need to be modified, …
