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Embroidery on Towels

I seem to do quite a few towels for corporate sponsors and for gifts especially around Christmas time, I am a niche embroider, my specialization is jacket backs, carpets and specialty items. However towels can offer a extra opportunity for your customers.  When embroidering on towels I always use tearaway, whether I am sewing on golf or fishing towels, bath robes or bath towels. I also use topping on towels that have a high nap to them. If you sell towels in your store make them more attr

Needle guide

Knowing your Needles The needle: Itís a small innocuous component of every embroidery machine that tends to get overlooked, even ignored ñ until it breaks. Even then, the typical response is to change it out and keep going. Small, inexpensive, rather boring, but extremely critical to the embroidery process. Without a needle, stitches could not be formed. Knowing your needles are critical. Needles have various. Needle Application While most shops are guilty of this or just do

Introduction to Threads

There is a wide range of thread choices available to todayís embroiderer. However, unless time is taken to experiment with different choices, they may never get a chance to offer them to their customer. Most new embroiderers purchase a start up kit with their equipment that contains one type of thread. They start with and continue to use this same thread as if it is the only style available, without ever considering if there is a better alternative. As it turns out, there are several types and s

Advanced embroidery digitizing techniques

BORING TOOL NOTE: This chapter will be covering some advanced options for Tajima Maestro embroidery software users, however to the full benefit of this chapter you will the Boring tool, cording tool, for your machine. This tool can be used for decorative stitching, by placing holes in the garment and embroidering around them. You will need to check with your Distributor if your machine supports the hardware and get the option in your software, standard on Tajima Maestro optional on Illustra

Sequin Introduction

Sequins are easy to digitize with the newer software, once you understand the basic and rules for digitizing. In your Pulse machine embroidery software the tools will automatically lock the sequins, you can choose a variety of sizes and styles for spacing them. So you need the hardware for your machine, usually you can add it on after the fact, check with your distributor, for information. If you plan to punch using the manual sequin tool then you will need to know how to tie it off wh

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Securing your embroidery digitizing work

When machine embroidery digitizing or just doing text it very important that you understand trims and locks many times they go hand in hand as often if your applying a trim to a design, you should be applying a lock stitch. Depending on the type of garment the use and your personal preference you can choose to put locks around trim stitches. Definition Trims    A trims is when the machine cuts the thread before moving to another part of the design, this also can be done manually on old

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Embroidering on to Leather

Embroidering on leather is one of the most sought after applications by high end customers, including sports fans, corporations and more. In this blog we will give you tips and tricks on  how to work with leather to help familiarize your techniques. The problem with leather it comes it different thickness, and different cuts or skins, making your life a battle. Leather Thickness You will be asked to embroidery on different materials for different applications in the image below you wil

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Introduction to Chenille embroidery

What is Chenille machine embroidery? Chenille embroidery is textured embroidery that is created by forming loop stitches on the top side of the fabric being embroidered. Using wool, cotton, or acrylic yarns, it creates a unique texture that sets your embroidery apart from common, everyday embroidery designs. What do you need ? You will need a digitizing level of the software, the option for Chenille and a Chenille machine, contact your distributor for information on Chenille

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Underlay types

In this blog we will look at preparing the fabric for your designs, and understanding why you should use a particular type of underlay in building a foundation for the machine embroidery design. Underlay Types There are many names for the basic types of underlay in Pulse products you have several types, including Contour, Parallel , Perpendicular, Zig Zag, Lattice , Full Lattice and Center run.  Contour Underlay When no underlay is applied, the thread making up the satin

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Thread Thickness and Digitizing Techniques

When digitizing or adding a new thread type to your system, you can also input the desired thickness of that thread.  This helps when trying to determin the coverage of a fill on a large area. A bit of back ground the industry standard thread weight for most industrial shops is 40wt this has the best coverage on standard logos and works with a widest variety of applications. However there are specialty areas that can get better results when working with other areas. Small Diameter

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Three D of machine embroidery digitizing

In digitizing designs its important to understand the machine embroidery design characteristics, this helps if you have taken some time of art courses as it can prepare you to look at the design different. It also depends on the size, and quality of artwork you have to work with. In this blog we are going to look at the three "D" of digitizing, Depth Density and Dynamics. Whether a design comes from a line drawing, clipart or a photograph, you need to understand how to get the software to be abl

Machine embroidery stitch types and limitations

When your learning to digitize it is very important that you understand what the different stitch types and when they should be used. Depending on your level it will depend on what tools you have. Embroidery stitch types There are three main categories of stitches in your software these stitch types can take form in many different ways. The three stitch types includes the run style stitch, satin style stitch and the fill style stitch. Lets take a closer

Underlay for embroidery designs

In this blog we will look at preparing the fabric for your designs, and understanding why you should use a particular type of underlay in building a foundation for the design. Underlay Types There are many names for the basic types of underlay in Pulse products you have several types, including Contour, Parallel , Perpendicular, Zig Zag, Lattice , Full Lattice and Center run. Contour Underlay When no underlay is applied, the thread making up the satin column lays flat on

Hoop size and embroidery machine type. How right size embroidery design

Question: Have a Brother Se 425 which hoop size is 4 X 4 only and I Can't find under Brother so wanted to know if a 85 x 100 mm (3.35 X 3.94 would work. if so I will buy one of your designs. I,m new at this and I/m trying to get the hang of this. Thank you for your support. Answer: 1. First every design have full information about, colors, size and stitches. 2. In your Profile you can choose your embroidery machine https://embroideres.com/profile/edit/ and eve

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EDR формат для чего он?

Большинство вышивальных машин и программного обеспечения неправильно отображают цвета на экране. Для того чтобы вы могли выбрать точные или идентичные цвета (мы используем Robison Anton цветовую палитру) к каждому дизайну идут дополнительный графический файл в формате JPG или PDF.  Если у вас есть программа Embird (www.embird.net) вы можете увидеть коррктное отображение цветов. Для этого вместе с дизайном загрузите файл цветовой поддержки  (наша абревиатура) в формате *.EDR. Тогда просматриваемы

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Sierra Embroidery Office 15 Pre realise обновление

1 октября 2014 года девелопперская компания Sierra (Буэнос Айрес Аргентина) объявила о выходе новой версии программного обеспечения для создания машинной вышивки. Эта вопреки логике имела номер не 12 ( как логично было бы предположить, поскольку предыдущая версия была 11) , а получила номер 15. Поскольку это пре релил до 10 детября 2014 года были объявлены специальные условия для обновления предыдущих версий. Так чистое обновление версии эдектронным методом ( загрузка

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Бизнес в машинной вышивке.. теория и практика

Прочитал такой как мне показалось унылый пост Марины Беловой который обозначен как Комплекс мер по выживанию. Поскольку эти вопросы волнуют наверное многих работающих в этой сфере, попытаюсь дать свое видение. И тут я добавлю слово дилемы . А не проблемы.. И дилема эта проста , что лучше красить машины или рисовать картины.. Да да именно так это и звучит. Раскрою чуть ниже. Занимаюсь машинной вышивкой более 15 лет и каждый раз не перестаюсь удивляться немного идеалистичному представлен

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Изготовление салфетки с FSL дизайнами

Автор Марина Белова Вебсайт автора Дизайн представляет собой самозамкнутый венок, который вышивается набором файлов, пристыковываемых друг к другу. Чтобы вышить салфетку или скатерть нужного размера придется набрать ее из необходимого количества раппортов и четырех углов: Схема и способ вышивки этой салфетки и любого другого изделия будут абсолютно одинаковы. Понадобится четыре файла: Первый угол это отдельный файл (first)– зеленый на схеме. Раппорт (border) – красный на схеме. По длинно

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I try to embroider on beflex (spandex)

Approximately for about one year ago, Tatyana – one of the first visitors of my blog asked me about embroidery on beflex (it still call spandex). Then I honestly answered that I never faced and don't know anything about this fabric. And here at last, I ripened before to test embroidery on this interesting jersey on the properties. Who doesn't know and doesn't use spandex? It is known by all – of it do bathing suits, swimming trunks, sports shorts and other sportswear which is very convenient as

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Embroidery on caps

How to program designs of machine embroidery for caps the information is everywhere. But here for some reason each time when I see new machine embroidery design which needs to be attached on frontal part of a cap, I start panicking and thinking: what from all of known rules will work in this case? And each time as in the first class though from the theoretical point of view, it seems, everything is clear and clear. So, I will pass to scoring of theoretical bases of creation of design of embroid

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Effects for stitch fillings. We decorate satin. Part 2

On what it is necessary to pay attention: at change a contour form from a wide place to narrow, stitches start approaching with each other and can form filling of very big density. Part of editors of an embroidery the software solve this problem. In bottlenecks there is a shortening of lines and not all lines get a narrow neck and density remains to a constant without unnecessary consolidations. Some the editor allow to lay out lines in the elementary a pattern, instead of it is simple to se

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Effects for stitch fillings. We decorate satin. Part 1

There are many effects which can be applied to sateen having given it additional visual appeal. The set of opportunities depends on your software. For example, usual sateen as all know looks so: And possible effects for it such: Impressive filling (pattern) – application of breakdown of a tatami. Laying by a tile (carved pattern, creative pattern) – sateen is filled in with pattern figures. These figures are as in library, also they can be created and most. Pattern filling (motive, m

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Imitation of wool and bird's feathers of Tajima DGML by Pulse

And here I look at it and I am surprised, why in general it was necessary to create such effect, after all to make it by hands is simple, and the main thing operating properties of each object it is possible manually, without purchase of any expansions. But who writes about it when sells plug-ins to editors? Unambiguously, money was spent in vain Now I will pass to the professional editor of embroidery of Tajima DGML by Pulse who has similar effect of imitation of wool in the arsenal. Informati

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