Stitched branding for caps, polo shirts, uniforms and workwear. Bring your logo and garment brief, and we’ll help you plan the placement, thread colours and finish.
Each job is quoted for its artwork, garment, quantity and branding positions.
Caps & hats
Polo shirts & uniforms
Jackets & workwear
Bags, aprons & towels
Give your logo room to breathe. A continuous front panel keeps the branding area clear of a centre seam. Choose the cap colour, thread contrast and logo position together so the finished set feels considered.
A small, well-placed chest logo makes a polo feel professional without overwhelming it. Coordinate garment colours, sizes and thread across your staff, hospitality team or event crew.
The logo is prepared for stitching, sized for its position and matched to the garment. Look closely at the thread texture and how the branding sits when worn.
Send your logo, item type, sizes, quantity, branding positions and preferred deadline.
We review the artwork, digitising needs, thread colours and garment suitability for your quote.
Agree the logo size, placement and any sample requirements before the work goes ahead.
A small embroidered chest logo gives hoodies and sweatshirts a refined teamwear finish. Match the thread to your palette and leave room around pockets, seams and drawstrings.
Share the hoodie fabric, quantity, logo file and preferred positions. We’ll confirm whether printing or embroidery suits the item before quoting.
Compare a smaller stitched chest mark with a larger printed design. Keep the logo clear of pockets and seams, and choose a thread or print colour with enough contrast against the hoodie fabric.
This is the single biggest driver. An embroidery machine is billed by the time it runs, and that time is stitches. A small left chest logo might be a few thousand stitches, while a large back design can be tens of thousands, so the same logo costs very different amounts at different sizes.
Each position is a separate hooping and a separate run on the machine. A left chest logo alone is one run. Left chest plus a back logo plus a sleeve is three, and the price reflects three set-ups rather than one.
Bigger designs need more stitches. Intricate designs also need more colour changes and more dense fill, which adds machine time even when the overall size stays the same.
Each colour change pauses the run. A two colour logo stitches faster than an eight colour one at the same size, so simplifying a design is often the cheapest way to bring a quote down.
Caps run on a special cap frame and take longer to load than a flat polo. Bulky items like jackets and overalls are slower to hoop, and awkward positions such as sleeves and collars add handling time.
A logo cannot be embroidered as a picture. It has to be digitized into a stitch file that tells the machine the path, direction and density of every stitch. This is a one off job per design, and once it is done the same file is reused on every future order at no extra cost.
Digitizing and set-up are one off, so the more units you run against them the lower the cost per piece. The machine time per garment stays roughly the same, which is why embroidery does not fall in price as steeply with volume as screen printing does.
Standard polyester thread covers most jobs. Metallic and specialty threads cost more and run slower. Stretchy or lightweight fabrics also need a heavier stabiliser behind the stitching.
AI, EPS, PDF or SVG is ideal. A high resolution PNG or JPG can work, but a clean vector gives a far better stitch file.
Very small lettering fills in and becomes unreadable once stitched. As a rule of thumb, lettering below roughly 5mm tall does not hold its shape in thread. Tell us the final size you want and we will flag anything that will not read.
Thread is a solid colour. Gradients, drop shadows, photographic detail and hairline strokes have to be converted into solid shapes, so designs with a lot of those need simplifying before they can be stitched.
Screen colours and thread colours are not the same. Send your brand colour references and we will match them to the closest available thread and confirm before the run.
Fine lettering, gradients and very small details may need simplifying. We’ll review the design at the intended stitch size. For full-colour printed artwork, compare the T-shirt printing methods.
A batch of caps running on our Tajima multi-head embroidery machine, stitching a two colour logo onto the front panel.
Planning caps, polos or a mixed uniform order? Start with these details.
Yes. Customer supplied garments are welcome. Send a sample or the exact product details first so we can confirm the fabric and the position will work, and so we can check the design size against the area available.
Digitizing converts your logo into a stitch file that tells the machine how to sew it. It is done once per design. After that the same file is reused on repeat orders, so you are not charged for it again unless the design changes or you need it at a very different size.
The machine is occupied for as long as it is stitching, and stitches are what it counts. Two designs of the same width can carry very different stitch counts depending on how much solid fill they contain, which is why a quote is based on the stitch file rather than the dimensions alone.
For polo shirts, caps, jackets and anything washed often, embroidery lasts longer and looks more professional. For large, full colour or photographic designs, printing is the better fit. Send us the design and the garment and we will tell you honestly which suits the job.
Share your logo and embroidery brief, or explore the clothing range to find the right garment.
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