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What is the difference between a Woven and an Embroidered badge?

A woven badge appears ‘flatter’ because the design is usually sewn INTO the background. A woven badge is produced as a complete item and with this process we are able to produce superb representation of the required design.

As the design is woven into the background this creates a smooth surface to the badge. This process is more cost effective for larger orders. Finer detail and smaller lettering is possible than on embroidery, unit cost is often lower then embroidered. Woven badges are normally supplied backed and overlocked but also available in "ribbon form" - on rolls, ready for cutting off.

An embroidered badge appear more three dimensional, being much thicker as the weave/thread is sewn OVER the background. Embroidered badges are usually more expensive to produce due to more complex stitching.

An Embroidered badge is produced by a stitching process onto a base cloth or garment, it produces a textured and raised design effect.

These are the basic steps for creating embroidery with a computerized embroidery machine.

• create a digitized embroidery design file edit the design and/or combine with other designs (optional)
• load the final design file into the embroidery machine
• stabilize the fabric and place it in the machine
• start and monitor the embroidery machine.

1) The embroidery process begins with an idea or a piece of artwork. That artwork then has to be "digitized" which is the specialized process of converting 2 dimensional artwork into stitches or thread. Contrary to popular opinion, you cannot take a particular format of art such as a jpeg, tif, eps, bmp, and convert it to an embroidery tape. The digitizer has to actually recreate the artwork using stitches, meaning, the digitizer is programming the sewing machine to sew a specific design, in a specific color, with a specific type of stitch. This is the process known as digitizing. Also, because embroidery is 3 dimensional, some exciting effects can be included to "spruce up" a normally flat piece of artwork.

2) Once the above step is done the computer can output the nearest mock-up look of the actual badges.

3) Once the artwork has been digitized, it is then ready to be put into production. Production embroidery is a very hands on process. Before the sewing can begin, specific thread colors must be loaded by hand into the machines. A spool of thread for each color for each sewing head must be loaded. The machine itself is programmed by the operator to sew the design in a particular color sequence and a particular sewing speed. The fabric must then be "hooped" individually, again by hand, and then loaded into the machine. Once the design has completed sewing, the fabric is taken off the machine, un-hooped, and then sent to the next step in the production process.

4) This is finishing process. During this step, the badgess are inspected for quality, individually trimmed of excess backing material and excess threads, then add the backing on. And the badge is ready for shipping.

My name is Henry. I founded Badge House in earlier 2003, sometimes after 20th World Jamboree. This is a few company in the market that manned by a scout with over 20 years experience and can offer something that meet scout requirement and taste. We have a strong commitment for "Good Quality" and "Good Design". WE have the mission to ensure that your design will stand up among the crowd, of course, we will also ensure that you will find making badge is an affortable task along with your days to days activities.

Currently, our penetration in Malaysia is still considered as in the infancy stage. We have currently served State of Johor, Melaka, Sabah, Sarawak and occasionally National Headquerter in KL.

Outside of Malaysia, we serve North American, Europe and occassionally africa and middle east. In Asia Pacific region, we have customers from Taiwan, Singapore, Maldives, Philippines, Australia and etc…

What have actually differentiate between our badges and our competitor one, apart from the quality and workmanship, is the special backing that we have for all our badges. With this backing, we are taking the responsibility for our reputation for Best Quality. So far nope of our competitors you can find in the whole Asia Pacific and Europe has this. The exception will be in the USA only

Example:

 

Anyway around the world, if you see a badge that come with this backing, it is from us. Not just that, it may be also designed by us.

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