Reason #7 why embroidery shops do not want work on garments you bought elsewhere is for The Birds!
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 …
What the Chewbotcas Can Reveal about Color Phase Shifting
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 …
Would You Like to Supersize the Screen Printing on that T-Shirt?
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 …
Rev That Engine: Getting from Classic Car Photos to Custom Embroidered Jackets
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 …
Getting from Concept to Custom Patches in Five Days
“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, …
Embroidery on Camouflage Caps
When a customer wants a logo embroidered on camo caps, we’re always intrigued. Camouflage hats are an interesting choice for logo wear. The designed purpose of camouflage clothing is, of course, to make the wearer more difficult to see in a given environmental setting. Guess what? The camouflage patterns do a superb job of concealing certain types of logos. Go figure! So …
Embroidery of a Full Jacket Back in Time Compressed Video
Below is a time compressed video of a full jacket back embroidery design we did for the Hoh Indian Tribe, which finds its home west of Seattle on the Pacific side of the Olympic Peninsula. We first helped the tribe identify a soft shell jacket that fit their members’ needs. Then we worked with them on the design accuracy and …