Most people who are having large numbers of clothing garments embroidered (from fancy dress costumes for fun nights out to promotional uniforms) are interested to find out how the magic actually happens. Embroidery techniques may have advanced to the stages of digitalisation, but computers can't simply do all the work.
Before they are applied to fabric, images need to be 'digitised'. CAM (Computer Aided Manufacture) and CAD (Computer Aided Design) are the two technologies responsible for making sure the scanning of an image onto a computer goes smoothly, so that it can read the data. Each alternate design has a different screen resolution once it has been scanned in, so sometimes the digitising process can produce warped images that look very different to the design that was first sent to be used.Human labour is needed at this stage to monitor the digitising of each design to check that it is scanned onto the computer looking the same as it did in the beginning. Without this human intervention there could be hoards of warped and stretched designs being sewn onto garments and just sent out to customers without further thought. This would waste time, money and the materials used in the process.
So, once an image has been checked by a human to see if it has been digitized correctly it can be sent to the sewing machine for embroidering. If it has come out skewed then the person will have to manually adjust the image so that it looks the same as the one sent by the customer. The sewing machine reads the pattern which the computer has worked out for the image. When it's being embroidered sometimes the image doesn't look anything like the finished one right up until the end as different layers of colour and thread need to be sewn at different times. Each different colour and shape comes together at the end.
Fabric, colours and designs always vary, which means that occasionally a human will need to intervene in the process to change needles and threadsThis does slow down the embroidery process a little, meaning that most designs take between 24 and 48 hours to complete to the stage that they are ready to be sent back to the customer. Once one image has been digitised it doesn't need to go through the process again because it will have been stored onto the computer and the pattern onto the sewing machine so it can be used again. In fact, processing 100 baseball caps with one logo would take less time than processing 20 each with a different one.
So there we have it, the processes involved in embroidering clothing singularly, in batches or for mass production using computer technology. Since this technology has been developed the processing time for embroidered clothing has more than halved and the industry has begun to boom. - 15433
Before they are applied to fabric, images need to be 'digitised'. CAM (Computer Aided Manufacture) and CAD (Computer Aided Design) are the two technologies responsible for making sure the scanning of an image onto a computer goes smoothly, so that it can read the data. Each alternate design has a different screen resolution once it has been scanned in, so sometimes the digitising process can produce warped images that look very different to the design that was first sent to be used.Human labour is needed at this stage to monitor the digitising of each design to check that it is scanned onto the computer looking the same as it did in the beginning. Without this human intervention there could be hoards of warped and stretched designs being sewn onto garments and just sent out to customers without further thought. This would waste time, money and the materials used in the process.
So, once an image has been checked by a human to see if it has been digitized correctly it can be sent to the sewing machine for embroidering. If it has come out skewed then the person will have to manually adjust the image so that it looks the same as the one sent by the customer. The sewing machine reads the pattern which the computer has worked out for the image. When it's being embroidered sometimes the image doesn't look anything like the finished one right up until the end as different layers of colour and thread need to be sewn at different times. Each different colour and shape comes together at the end.
Fabric, colours and designs always vary, which means that occasionally a human will need to intervene in the process to change needles and threadsThis does slow down the embroidery process a little, meaning that most designs take between 24 and 48 hours to complete to the stage that they are ready to be sent back to the customer. Once one image has been digitised it doesn't need to go through the process again because it will have been stored onto the computer and the pattern onto the sewing machine so it can be used again. In fact, processing 100 baseball caps with one logo would take less time than processing 20 each with a different one.
So there we have it, the processes involved in embroidering clothing singularly, in batches or for mass production using computer technology. Since this technology has been developed the processing time for embroidered clothing has more than halved and the industry has begun to boom. - 15433
About the Author:
Consilium Group specialises in the supply of embroidered clothing, digitally printed clothing, promotional clothing and more. Visit http://www.consilium-clothing.co.uk/ to see the company's complete range of product offerings.
