About the garment embroidery process

T-shirt Printing Australia offers a specialist embroidery service to add to our growing list of garment decorating solutions. Embroidery for Jackets and Hi Visibility Work Wear, Hats and Cap Embroidery, and of course, Corporate and School uniform Embroidery. The embroidery market is highly competitive and requires some of latest computerised embroidery machines. Our embroidery team offers the latest embroidery software (in all formats) and can digitise your embroidery artwork with our company's own in-house design and digitising service.

Embroidery as a form of decorating cloth has been around for many thousands of years, and possibly as long as the making of clothing itself. It was first observed and written into history during the Roman times. This was usually carried out by hand, using skill craftspeople in the art of needlework. Today, the T-shirt printing team produces embroidered products with computer aided stitching machinery. Embroidered designs can be turned out in a matter of minutes with up to 15 colour's in a design.

Before we begin stitching any garments we need to transfer your design or logo to a format that our stitching machine can understand and shows the machine where the stitches will go and where the thread colour's are in your design. This is called digitising. Our team of expert digitising staff use computer software to transform your design into a stitched version. This can take some time to produce, however the better your artwork is digitized, the higher the quality of the embroidery will become. This is because the cost of embroidery is calculated on the number of stitches in a design. A digitiser can cut corners and use loose stitching to lower the stitch count this can result in poor quality embroidery. Good quality embroidery comes with tight stitching which raises the number of stitches in a design.

You can send us your design in just about any image file format. Jpeg, png, bitmaps, pdf, Vectors, raster, letterheads, business card, scans, just about anything will do. Obviously the better the quality of the artwork the better the results. That being said there are limits to what can be digitised. Not every detail can be reproduced in a stitched format.

Once the digitising part of you order has been completed, we will send you a digital version of the finished embroidered out logo as a sample of your design prior to production. You are then required to view and approve the design prior to us embroidering your garments.

At the heart of our embroidery production is an SWF commercial embroidery machine specifically engineered for embroidery. This machine contains a hooping or framing system that holds the fabric tight and secure underneath the sewing needle, which move around automatically as directed by the pre-digitised design. This modern embroidery machine can trim and change colour's automatically and can utilize up to 15 needles for each of it's 6 sewing heads capable of sewing-out the same design onto 6 garments at once.

To prevent the garment from wrinkling and creasing the fabric must be stabilized. Generally the method of stabilizing is done by placing one or more additional pieces of material called "interfacing" beneath and/or on top of the fabric.

For smaller embroidered items, the item to be embroidered is hooped, and the hoop is attached to the machine. There is a mechanism on the machine (usually called an arm) that then moves the hoop under the needle.