Embroidery guides
Six decisions sit between the logo on your letterhead and the logo on your uniforms. Each one has a guide. This page is where they fit together.
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Whatever you decide across these guides, you see it settled before it is repeated.
Why any of this matters
Embroidery is unusual among the things you buy for a uniform program. Almost everything else can be adjusted next time — a size, a colour, a supplier. The embroidery setup is settled once and then reproduced on every garment that follows, for as long as the branding stands.
So the cost of getting it wrong is never the setup. It is every garment after it, and the awkward conversation about whether to live with it or start again. None of these decisions are difficult. They are just easier to make deliberately than to unpick.
The six decisions
Most organisations don’t arrive at the beginning. They arrive holding a file somebody found, or halfway through a rebrand, or with a range that already looks inconsistent. Find the one that sounds like you.
Almost nobody can immediately lay hands on their original artwork, and it has never stopped a uniform order. What matters is what you have, not what you are missing.
Before anything is prepared, the artwork is assessed — what holds in thread at the size you want, what may need adjusting, and what we would recommend changing and why.
A logo file describes a picture; an embroidery file describes an action. The second is written using the first, and the decisions taken while writing it are what the finished mark looks like.
Thread is a fixed physical range rather than a colour picker, and a needle resolves detail differently from a printer. Both are settled before production, not discovered after it.
Scrub tops, tunics, polos, shirts and jackets are built differently, so the mark cannot sit at an identical coordinate on all of them. Holding the perceived position is what makes a range read as one organisation.
Names and roles are a separate treatment sharing the same garment as the logo, and the two have to be decided together rather than one after the other.
If you only read one thing
Most of what these guides cover can be revisited on the next order without much cost. Three cannot, because they are already stitched into garments people are wearing: the thread colours chosen against your brand, the size the mark is set at, and where it sits on each garment in the range.
All three are confirmed with you before production rather than decided on your behalf. That is the whole reason the approval step exists, and it is worth using properly rather than waving through.
Or skip the reading
None of this is homework. Send the best version of your artwork you have and we will assess it, tell you plainly whether it works as supplied, and walk you through whichever of these decisions your order actually needs.
No. Send us the logo and we will raise whichever of these decisions your order actually involves. The guides are here for the organisations that want to understand the process before they commit to it, and for the people who have to explain it internally.
Whichever one matches where you are. If you are not sure you have the right artwork, start at Logo Requirements. If the artwork is settled and the question is how the range should look, start at Embroidery Placement.
It means the decisions are being made fresh rather than inherited, which is the easier version. Send the new artwork as soon as it is signed off and we will assess it alongside the garments it is going onto.
Yes. The guides exist so the detail is available in writing when you want it, not to replace a conversation. Anything here can be talked through with our team instead.
The artwork and digitising decisions are the same either way. Whether a particular existing garment is suitable for embroidery depends on the garment itself, so that is worth a conversation rather than an assumption.
In our own Australian facility. Stitch files are built there too rather than being sent offshore, which is why the answers in these guides come from the people who will run the job.
Talk to us. What is possible depends on where the order has got to, so it is better raised early than assumed either way — which is the practical reason the approval step is worth taking seriously.
Yes — Choosing Embroidery, in the Resources section, covers that decision. These guides assume it has already been made.
Avery is cut for a contemporary, slightly tapered fit that flatters without restricting movement. Prefer a relaxed fit or planning to layer? Size up.
| 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 |
