How to best embroider custom wool sweaters? Here are our tips.
If you'd like to create custom wool sweaters , you've come to the right place! In this section, you'll find all the information and advice we need on the subject.
Our Burger Print portal, best known for its cheap custom t-shirts , offers a wide range of other custom clothing items.
Custom embroidered sweaters have become very popular in recent years, and not many offer this type of product. On our website, you can create your own sweater with your initials, your first and last name, or much more.
For this type of product, especially wool sweaters, we recommend embroidery rather than digital printing, which guarantees a more satisfying result.
But let's go and see what it's about!
How a professional embroidery machine works
At Burger Print , we use a specific device to personalize wool sweaters: the embroidery machine.
A professional embroiderer does the same work that can be done manually with a sewing machine , only that it does it in a totally automated way.
Using external hardware, you insert the design or writing you want to embroider onto the wool sweater (or any other item of clothing, such as inexpensive personalized polo shirts for example).
The embroidery machine, based on the settings given by the printer, performs the desired embroidery exactly in the point of the sweater that you have chosen with the simulator during purchase.
This way, the embroidery will be perfect , without smudges, and the final result will be excellent! Let's now look at some ideas for embroidering names or images on your personalized wool sweater.
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Some embroidery suggestions for personalized wool sweaters
You may have also seen in some Hollywood film characters walking around tennis or golf clubs with their initials embroidered on their sweaters or polo shirts.
You probably thought that was for the rich. Not anymore! Now you too can personalize your sweater with your name (or other text) on Burger Print.
A very important factor in this case is, in addition to the color of the writing in relation to the color of the background on which it will be embroidered, the choice of font.
There are hundreds of them now, and of course you're free to choose whichever one you like best, but we want to give you a quick overview of the main font categories and their applications based on their intended use.
Font Categories: Which One Is Best for Your Embroidery?
The first thing you need to know is that there are three macro categories of fonts: Serif (called "Serif"), Sans Serif (called "Bastoni") and Script .
The Graziati are so called because of those small trails at the ends of the letters which give a sense of grace and elegance to the latter.
This type of font is inspired by the famous Roman lapidary character , the style in which letters were carved into stone during the Ancient Roman Empire.
Serif fonts are very nice for creating a sweater with initials (even with first and last names) or with acronyms, therefore for very short writings to which you want to give a noble look.
Sans Serif fonts, on the other hand, are called this way thanks to their more linear and modern nature compared to the previous ones and are inspired by 19th century English advertising characters.
Sans are undoubtedly the clearest and most legible on custom apparel , so if this is what you are looking for, we recommend choosing a font belonging to this category.
Script fonts, on the other hand, are those that resemble handwritten text and are very sinuous and rounded , being all in italics only.
Scripts are perfect for embroidering the name of a club (or any group) if you want to create a personalized name sweater but should be avoided for very long writing.
Depending on how you envision your custom sweater and what you're going to use it for, you can choose one category or the other.
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Embroidering complex figures: when it is possible
When embroidering images on fabrics like custom wool sweaters, you need to be careful about the complexity of the latter.
In fact, it is not advisable to choose excessively complex figures with more than three colours , as they would not be realisable: when it comes to embroidering images, you need to keep things simple .
Geometric shapes are a good option as a decoration for wool sweaters (but also for the inexpensive personalized polo shirts you can find on our site).
Now it's up to you to choose your sweaters (or your low-cost personalized t-shirts ) on Burger Print: if you want to browse our catalog right away, click here and enter the site !
