We have an embroidery client in greater Seattle area that occasionally orders pieces of luggage. Yes, embroidery on luggage is possible. It adds a mark of distinction to your travel bags and helps you extend your brand image to the airport, the hotel, and beyond. That said, branding your luggage with your corporate logo or your initials is not an …
I’m In Stitches Custom Embroidery Adds Eddie Bauer Label to Offerings
We were delighted when one of our suppliers began carrying the Eddie Bauer jackets, vests, and outerwear. Some clothing wholesale suppliers seem to be only concerned with offering something inexpensive. This results in poor quality control at the factory, which means that an embroidery shop like ours either has to risk disappointing a logo wear client with a …
Embroidery on Customer-Supplied Items – Why It Doesn’t Pay to Bend Rules
A Tacoma industrial company recently called us about embroidery and logo wear. They said they were unhappy with their current embroidery vendor and looking for a change. It seemed like an easy fit because they already had identified from their prior work a variety of clothing options that were available from our suppliers. When we visited to clarify things and …
Embroidery for Hotel and Medical Applications
We have some embroidery clients in the Seattle-Tacoma area with a very particular need — the need to wash their embroidered jackets, towels, and robes with bleach. One of these clients is a string of dental offices that requested lab coats for its dental hygiene technicians. Another is a hotel chain of which we have written before. We supply that …
Logo Embroidery on Robes and Towels
We do embroidery and screen printing work for a Tacoma-area chain of hotels. About five months ago, one of the hotels decided to replace some of the robes in its room. Their first instinct was to go for plush, but inexpensive. Cotton is more expensive than synthetic fabrics, so by the time they had called us, they had already firmly …
Seattle-Tacoma Area Customer Finally Says “No” to Cheap Embroidered Polos
Take a look at the photo below and see if you can figure out what is wrong with this shirt. One of our newer customers in the Seattle-Tacoma area ordered a small run of embroidered polos. They had been ordering these shirts for years from the logo wear vendor that preceded us. We dutifully ordered the shirts from our …
You and Your Logo Wear Vendor — Who’s There for Whom?
We have a new embroidery and screen printing client in the greater Seattle area who came to us in desperation. This junior football team shared with us that their season was about to begin. Three months prior, they had ordered team uniforms, embroidered coaches’ jackets, and other spirit wear from “the cheapest bidder.” Nothing had yet arrived. The team sportswear …
Providing quality embroidered team uniforms to Juneau, Alaska
We were pleased to have been selected as the logo wear vendor for a team in Juneau, AK. What made this embroidery job interesting was the delivery. The customer was on a deadline as game day was approaching. We were planning to get embroidered team jerseys cranked out in time for a typical ground shipment via FedEx or UPS. However, …
How Logo Wear Can Boost A Prospect’s Confidence In Your Business
Through our engagement in local business and community groups, we have had the opportunity to see a lot of small businesses come and go. We can almost sniff out the ones that are going to fail based upon the way their representatives present themselves. One of the most important indicators is whether that representative projects confidence. I think this goes …
How Your Car Rental Instincts Can Help When Choosing an Embroidery and Screen Printing Vendor
One of our local Seattle / Tacoma area embroidery and screen printing competitors shut its doors this past week. While we feel sorry for the staff affected by that event, it obviously creates an opportunity for our firm. We have already had clients calling us to ask if we can take over handling their logo wear. The first client with …