Embroidery
Approved artwork does not go straight to a machine. It is rewritten as a set of stitch instructions first, and how that is written decides how the finished embroidery holds together on the garment.
Healthcare Organisations
10,000+
Logos Assessed
100%
Embroidered In Australia
40+
Years Experience
5.0 Google Rating
Artwork & digitising
A logo file describes a picture — shapes, colours and edges, held still. An embroidery file describes an action: which stitch, running in which direction, in what order, laid down by a needle onto fabric that stretches and pushes back. The second is not a conversion of the first. It is written, using the first as the reference.
That writing is digitising, and it is a separate craft from graphic design. It happens after your artwork has been assessed and prepared, and before anything is stitched.
Inside the file
None of this is visible in the artwork you send. It is decided during digitising, and each decision shows up in the finished embroidery whether or not anyone names it.
Stitch type
Solid outlines, filled areas and fine detail each call for a different stitch. The choice is what decides whether an edge reads crisp or soft once it is on fabric.
Stitch direction
The angle stitches run at changes how thread catches the light. It is much of what makes a mark look deliberate rather than flat.
Underlay
Stitches laid first to stabilise the fabric before the visible ones go on top. Without it the surface shifts underneath and the shape drifts with it.
Sequence
The order the elements are stitched in affects registration — whether the parts of a mark still line up with each other at the end.
Pull compensation
Fabric moves under the needle, so shapes are adjusted in the file itself to finish at the size and proportion they were meant to be.
Density
How closely the stitches sit together. Too open and the garment shows through the mark; too tight and the fabric puckers around it.
One approved logo can need more than one embroidery setup.
The garment, the size and the position all feed into the file, so the same mark may be prepared more than once across a range.
Fabric and construction
Fabric is part of the equation. A stable woven shirt and a knit polo behave differently under the needle — one holds its shape, the other gives. A softshell or a fleece adds thickness of its own. A setup that produces a clean result on one may need adjusting for another.
So a single embroidery setup is not automatically right for everything in a range. Where a garment requires it the file is adjusted; where it doesn’t, the approved setup carries across unchanged.
Size and position
Embroidery is not scaled the way a printed logo is. A mark prepared for a chest position carries different decisions from the same mark prepared larger for a back position — at a smaller size some detail cannot be held in thread at all, and the file is written accordingly rather than shrunk down later.
Which is why size and placement are settled before digitising rather than after. Where the embroidery sits on each garment is covered on its own page.
Australian facility
Every stitch file for a Med Uniforms order is built in our own Australian facility rather than sent offshore. The person writing it works in the same building as the machines that will run it, on the same garments, with the same threads.
That matters most when something is marginal — a fine detail, an unusual fabric, a mark that sits awkwardly at the size requested. It gets raised while it is still a question about a file, rather than after it is a problem on a finished garment.
Nothing is sent offshore to be digitised.
40+ years, 1,000+ healthcare organisations, and every stitch file built in the same facility that stitches the garment.
Approval and reorders
A digitised setup is not final until it has been approved. Where we have recommended changing something — a detail that may not hold at the size requested, a position that fights the garment’s construction — that is explained first, so the decision stays yours. Nothing goes into production until the embroidery setup has been approved.
Once approved, that setup is the reference point for new garments carrying the same mark, so a reorder does not start again from the beginning. Where a different garment, size or placement is involved it may need adjustment — but the approved version is what any adjustment starts from.
Getting started
You don’t need to know any of this to place an order. Send the best version of your artwork you have, and we’ll assess it, tell you plainly whether it works as supplied, and prepare the embroidery setup from there.
It is the step where approved artwork is rewritten as embroidery instructions — which stitches go where, in which direction and in what order. It is what an embroidery machine actually runs.
No. A logo file describes a picture; an embroidery machine needs instructions for a needle. The two are different kinds of file, so the second has to be written using the first as the reference.
No. Send the artwork you have and we take it from there. If you already hold an embroidery file from previous work, you are welcome to send it and we’ll assess whether it suits the garments in your order.
Often, but not always. Fabrics behave differently under the needle, and a different size or position may need its own treatment. Where a garment requires an adjustment we make it; where it doesn’t, the approved setup carries across.
Yes. Nothing goes into production until the embroidery setup has been approved, and anything we have recommended changing is explained before that point.
The approved setup is the reference point for new garments carrying the same mark, so a reorder does not start from the beginning. A different garment, size or placement may still require an adjustment.
Most can. Some marks include detail that may not hold cleanly in thread at the size you want, and where that is the case we say so and explain what we’d recommend adjusting, rather than stitching it and hoping.
They are consecutive steps. Artwork setup is the assessment and preparation of the logo itself; digitising is turning that prepared artwork into stitch instructions.
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| Model — Women's | 5'7", wearing size S |
| Model — Men's | 6'1", wearing size L |
| Fit | True to size, tapered body |
| Length | Hip-length, V-neckline |
| Chest (CM) | Body Length | Sleeve | |
|---|---|---|---|
| XXS | 81–86 | 58 | 30.5 |
| XS | 86–91 | 60 | 31.5 |
| S | 91–97 | 62 | 32.5 |
| M | 97–102 | 64 | 33.5 |
| L | 102–107 | 66 | 34.5 |
| XL | 107–114 | 68 | 35.5 |
| 2XL | 114–122 | 70 | 36.5 |
| 3XL | 122–132 | 72 | 37.5 |
| 4XL | 132–142 | 74 | 38.5 |
