Apparel Decoration Techniques: Embroidery
Embroidery is a highly popular branding technique for most promotional garments, hats, and bags. Many clients choose embroidery because it is the more cost effective than screen printing. Embroidery pricing (depending on stitch count of your logo) is generally less costly than screen printing because set-up charges for embroidery are (usually) a one time charge for digitizing. Once a logo is digitized for embroidery, the tape is usually kept on file for future orders. Embroidery tapes can be reused, unlike screen printing screens which have to be created for each order. Tonal...
Read MoreApparel Decoration Techniques: Screen, Digital, Discharge Printing
Apparel decoration has come a long way since the days of screen printing (did you know screen printing was first used by the Chinese nearly 2,000 years ago!) and basic embroidery. While both screen printing and embroidery are the foundations of decorating in the promotional products industry, technology has improved and expanded capabilities of these processes. Over the next few blog posts, I will be explaining apparel decoration techniques.
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