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The History of Embroidery
The History of Embroidery
Embroidery is a craft that has passioned many over the centuries. Its origins go as far back as 500-300 BC in China and India and it quickly developed across the globe with each culture creating their methods. Embroidery can be defined widely as the decoration of fabric using a needle to weave thread or yarn resulting in elaborate designs. While at first it was mainly used to mend, patch and reinforce cloths and fabrics to last longer, it quickly became a mean of artistic expression. Embroiders also add other materials to their designs such as sequins, pearls, beads, and use different materials and colours. However since each culture and period comes with its approach to the craft it is much more than that.
Embroidery over the years transcended from merely a patching method, or a hobby, to a biography and art form. Women who couldn't get an education at the time were taught embroidery and used it as a way to illustrate their life on fabric. Embroidered fabrics are now studied to catch a glimpse at the daily life of many women from different cultures or times. For example, during the suffragettes' movement, women would meet at sewing and embroidery places to organize the movement and would weave political messages into their fabrics and handkerchiefs.
Custom Embroidery - The Art of Personalization
Custom Embroidery - The Art of Personalization
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Whether you are a business or an individual, personalizing clothes, hats, bags, etc. has its appeal. Often we don't have the materials or capabilities ourselves to produce clean and aesthetic results, this is were custom embroidery comes in. Custom embroidery takes a specific design, logo, or picture and renders it through digital software to weave it into the fabrics of your choice. Whether it is customizing your favourite handbag or creating company shirts for an event, an embroider will be able to provide you with the solution.
Custom embroidery is more than just printing a design unto a t-shirt. It works with a lot more materials and with better quality than most fabric printing techniques: you can have your design on just about everything (leather, hats, polos, jeans, dresses, etc.). Your design can also be reworked especially for the embroidery, which is why your contract embroiderer will send you back the digitalization of the design before weaving it into the materials for changes, colour-coordinating and guarantee of client satisfaction. Then you will be able to see how the colours you chose work on fabric, and whether they'll work with threads. For example, for a design with a gradient to work with threads, your embroidery will have to use multiple threads but the colours won't look exactly the same as on your computer, which is why they could give you several alternatives. Your embroiderer can offer to make your design with metallic thread, to make it really pop from the fabric and reflect the light, or with ombre colours, to make it subtle yet hard to miss, or even with neon and fluorescent colour for that fresh and young look for your brand! No matter your choice of colours, you know you can always refer back to Pantone and colour match the threads with your embroiderer for a truly satisfactory result.
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