Embroidery
How does custom embroidery work, and how long does it take?
Embroidery stitches your design in thread rather than printing it. Once your design is digitized, decoration takes about two business days in our shop — the bigger variable is how quickly the blank garment reaches us. Pricing is by stitch count, so a dense filled logo costs more than open lettering of the same size.
How it's priced
By stitch count — literally how much thread your design needs. This surprises people who expect it to be priced by size, but it's the honest measure: a solid filled shape and an outlined word can be the same width and take wildly different amounts of stitching.
Practically, that means open lettering and clean linework are cheaper than dense filled areas.
The digitizing fee
Before anything can be stitched, your artwork has to be converted into a stitch path — that's digitizing, and it's a one-time job per design.
- Under 12 pieces: a one-time digitizing fee applies, covering a design up to 5,000 stitches
- 12 pieces or more: waived
There's still no hard minimum. One embroidered hat is a real order.
The 15-colour limit
We stitch from a fixed palette of 15 thread colours. That's a hard limit rather than a style guideline — we'll match your design to the closest colour in the set, and a design needing more than 15 distinct colours can't be embroidered as submitted. DTF is the way to do that one.
Thread also can't blend into a gradient or hold fine photographic detail. If your design is a photograph, embroidery is the wrong tool and we'll tell you so.
What embroiders well
- Bold, blocky shapes and simple logos
- Clean text — lettering under about a quarter-inch loses its shape once stitched
- Hats, polos, jackets and workwear, where the texture reads as premium
- Knit beanies, which DTF can't do — a transfer won't press flat on a ribbed knit
Ready to print it?
Upload your art, place it on the garment, and the price updates live. No minimum, no setup fee.