Ottawa Embroidery: Crafting One Stitch At A Time
Colortex is your top custom embroidery shop in Ottawa, specializing in high-quality embroidery for shirts and your brand. Contact our team to fill up stock, or take a look at our canadian clothing line in our store to customize.
The Process Of Our Embroidery Services
The process your embroidery project is done with an electrical computer sewing machine called an embroidery machine that is capable of going up to 1200 stitches per minute. This is how we can offer you these services. The embroidery machine uses needle and thread in order to sew points with a variety of stitch styles in order to make every stitch complete a portion of the embroidered design. Embroidery is available with a wide variety of yarn colors and they are often pantone matched perfectly to your brand or customers brand guidelines. Our favorite embroidery twine consists of polyester, and good news, you can get it even when your order is custom!
First Steps of Your Order in Ottawa
Before even thinking about embroidery we like to see the vector artwork in order to ensure that the artwork can even be embroidered and the final outcome will come out nicely. Offering high quality embroidery services among many others is the reason for our verification step in our embroidery order process in Ottawa.
Make a Choice of Embroidered Design
Most designs we do in Ottawa, which are always custom, can be made out of embroidery but that doesn't necessarily mean that they should be embroidered. Sometimes other decoration methods would be better suited for a variety of reasons such as the fabric that we are working with or the amount of fine details or small text in the logo. It is also important to keep in mind that the gradients in logos that we can achieve in screen printing as well as the blending of color is near impossible to get as photo realistic by doing embroidery.
Why Hats, Bags, and Jackets Are Best Embroidered
As much as embroidery has limitations it is the preferred method for hats, bags and jackets (more than shirts) as the fabric type and structure of these items make for embroidery to be the best decoration method for them, either if it's a wide section or if the design is in the back. Our services will make your logo or design pop on the chosen items we suggested.
Ottawa's Insight Into The Importance of Thread Quality
Just like printing, embroidery thread comes in a wide variety of fabrics such as rayon, polyester, cotton (often call embroidery floss) and silk just to name a few. To most eyes no differences will be seen but to us decorators, the embroidery strands play an important role on the quality of finished embroidery.
Custom But Standard for Embroidery Project
Our standard thread fabric is a polyester multifilament strands from Isacord and it comes in a variety of colors. Being that it is polyester, the twines will not change states meaning that it will not shrink, fade or bleed so it is a very versatile embroidery floss. Our services contain a wide selection of items that will make you logo stand out.
Metallic Thread in Our Embroidery Shop
As the name suggests, the metallic thread is a strand that is made out of a polyester and poly-amide wrapped together. The floss is constructed with a continuous filament core that is twined with metallic foil in order to add the shine feature to the embroidery filament. As you might think, Ottawa businesses obviously like this one since it screams custom! If you want it be even more custom, mix it with some printing on a shirt!
Fire Retardant Stitchery Thread
The fire retardant embroidery thread is a specialty embroidery filament that is used for embroidery on flame-retardant and heat-protective apparel. Even if it's custom, the embroidery strand has capabilities that make the thread self-extinguishing and non-melting capable of resetting up to approximately 200°C (either on caps, jackets or shirts). It is interesting since it is not something you can do when printing.
Our Methods & Techniques For Custom Embroidery
Regular Embroidered Order in Ottawa
Regular embroidery consists of stitching directly on the product, as custom as it can be. Some company in Ottawa like to keep it simple, which make this strand work a great choice! The regular embroidery is achieved by combining 3 stitch types. The 3 stitch types used are the fill, satin and straight stitch.
3D Puff Embroidery
Ever wondered why you walk into a store in Ottawa and some logos on merch look to be 3d on a hat? Well that is due to the 3D embroidery puff process. 3D puff embroidery is a technique used to achieve logos to take 3 dimensional thickness and make the embroidery to be raised from the surface of the product. This technique is achieved by adding a high density foam in between the fabric and embroidery. It's perfect to make a logo pop and our customer likes it!
Applique Stitchery
The collegiate style designs with multi levels of fabric and embroidery is achieved with this technique. The technique of applique embroidery combines traditional embroidery machines with laser cutting machines in order to achieve a mix of textures and layers on the garment. This embroidery technique creates truly stunning results and can often be combined with screen printing for even more creativity.
Hundreds of Stitch Options to Customize
Ditch your basic embroidery kits and discover different hats on which your can get an embroidery! If you would like a quick quote, contact us online, send us a file or call our team!
If you wonder the difference between printing and stitching? The two concept are different and we have an article about it. Feel free to look into it! Otherwise, feel free to reach out. We're in Ottawa, already ready to chat!
