Embroidery

Embroidery involves using thousands of stitches and several different thread colors to create a design on a shirt or object such as a bag or apron.  The first step in this process is taking your design or idea and converting it (“digitizing it”) into something the embroidery machine can read to sew the design. There is a digitizing fee for this conversion, which is a one-time charge for an individual design. After that, the costs of embroidery are all related to the number of stitches to sew the design and how many items are needed. The number of stitches can vary from a simple left or right chest name or logo with 4000 to 6000 stitches all the way up to a more complex design with more than 15,000 to 20,000 stitches. As with screenprinting, the larger an order the lower the cost per item for the embroidery.