What is embroidery?
Embroidery is a process where designs are sewn by computerized embroidery machines onto a garment. The designs are programmed into the computer during the set up process, and then are produced automatically by the machines, producing a precise, consistent design on every garment. Unlike screen printing, embroidered designs can have as many colors as you wish, since there is no additional set up process for different thread colors. Embroidery is priced according to the time it takes to stitch a design. A large design takes many more stitches to create than a small design, and therefore takes more time to complete, which in turn will cost you more money in production time. In addition, your design may require additional preparation time in order to digitize it, or convert it to the computerized format that our embroidery machines use.
Embroidery uses threads to create a rich, textured design on a garment. The image or drawing is sewn directly onto the shirt, jacket, cap, sweatshirt, or fabric item. An embroidered design can include lettering, logos, and even complex artwork. Our designers translate the artwork into a sequence of stitches – thousands of them. This design process is as much art as it is science, and is called “digitizing.” Larger designs require longer to set up and to sew. Our computerized, multi-head embroidery machines can sew as many as 15 thread colors into a design, and can embroider dozens of garments at a time. Embroidery is long-lasting and does not show the effects of time or frequent washing. An embroidered design has a depth, dimension and luster that looks expensive and has a high perceived value.
Embroidery is an art of stitching various patterns on the cloth. It needs lot of creativity and skill to generate such kind of artwork. Traditionally it was done manually by using various types of stiches, colorful threads, different types of clothes etc. Afterwords people started doing it by sewing machines which is a much convinient menthod. Nowadays, embroidery digitizing is very popular method which can generate any type of complicated design. It is an efficient technique as the generated digital code for the design is portable so it can be reused. Read more about embroidery digitizing at http://embroiderydigitization.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/digitizing-a-smart-way-to-get-immaculate-patterns/
1 In 1964, archaeologists found the fossilized remains of a hunter. He dated back to 30,000 B.C. He was discovered near Vladimir, Russia and was quite well dressed. His fuzzy fur clothing was decorated with neatly-stitched horizontal rows of ivory beads. Even his fuzzy fur boots had decorations on them. This hunter’s clothing is an early example of embroidery. 2 The Russian hunter proved that embroidery has been around for a very long time. As long as people have sewn clothing, they have decorated it with stitching. Embroidery began in the Middle East and the Orient. The first people who slashed animal skins together with sinew had more than survival in mind. They also had a sense of fashion. After all, they didn’t want to be nominated for a prehistoric version of What Not to Wear! 3 The history of stitching is as detailed as an embroidered tapestry. Let’s look at some examples of fine embroidery throughout the ages. The first form of true thread embroidery may have been done in China
