Embroidered Jacket – Tips On Custom Embroidery Jackets
Custom embroidered jackets are by far the most expensive apparel category in the embroidery market. For this reason you need to take special care to ensure that orders are decorated properly. Mistakes can seriously impact your profit margin in a negative way.
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If you have ever dealt with problems while working on an embroidered jacket, you are not alone. The simple fact that a custom embroidered jacket has so many locations to put an embroidered logo, can cause a logistic nightmare.
Here are a few tips that will make the process easier:
The right location
Embroidered jackets have many locations on which to place one or more graphics. Besides the traditional locations such as left and right chest, pocket and sleeve, the back of the jacket is also available for embroidery. The back of the jacket is just the place for the popular "billboard" style graphic used on wool and leather varsity jackets. It is important to keep in mind that the maximum size of any design is dependent on your hoop size. The maximum size of most embroidery hoops is 14", so it is recommended that you limit your jacket back designs to 12" or 13."
A fun new embroidery location becoming popular today is the "locker room tag," a small logo placed 1 below the back collar seam.
Fabric types
You will find that embroidery sews out well on most jacket fabrics. For example, cotton poplin, twill and cotton canvas, have smooth, tight surfaces that show off small text or delicate design elements well. Embroidery also works reasonably well on wool, leather and ripstop nylon fabrics. On the other hand, polar fleece and corduroy have heavy, plush and/or ribbed surfaces and small text elements can become buried or distorted.
Each fabric has its own positives and negatives. That is why it is best to consult with your digitizer to the best possible embroidery tape can be engineered to suit your jacket fabric.
Design elements
On large and complex designs like the ones traditionally sewn on a jacket back, stitch counts can easily run as high as 75,000 to 100,000. A creative way to reduce cost but still maintain the high-quality look of embroidery is to use appliqué.
Text size is a common problem with embroidery designs for all types of fabrics. Script or fancy serif fonts in particular are not recommended for smaller point sizes. For the very best results, use capitalized letters in a sans serif font such as Ariel. And when working with Polar fleece it is not recommended to use a font smaller than ¼" and 3/16" for corduroy and most other fabric
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