Before you send away boxes full of clothing to be embroidered, whether it's for band merchandise or school uniform, you'll be curious as to how mass embroidery is carried out. Most people are under the impression that computer software can carry out the whole process, but they are mistaken.
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.
The only interruption in the process comes when the colour of threads or the strength of needles need to be changed by a human, rather than by the machine itself. As a result, customers usually have to wait between one and two days for their designs to be sewn on from when their image reached the embroidery company's manufacturer. Each design only needs to be digitised once because it gets stored on the memories of both the sewing machine and the computer, making multiple copies of one design very easy to process. As a result, the time taken to embroider the same image on a whole boxful of garments is considerably less than it is for even just half a box of different designs.
Whether it's embroidery done on just one garment or on 1000 this article has outlined the method and techniques used to get the job done. Embroidery has not always been carried out using computer technology and indeed not always with electronic sewing machines, but since the days in which these methods started to be used the industry has simply been growing and growing. Whether it's embroidery done on just one garment or on 1000 this article has outlined the method and techniques used to get the job done. Embroidery has not always been carried out using computer technology and indeed not always with electronic sewing machines, but since the days in which these methods started to be used the industry has simply been growing and growing.
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.
The only interruption in the process comes when the colour of threads or the strength of needles need to be changed by a human, rather than by the machine itself. As a result, customers usually have to wait between one and two days for their designs to be sewn on from when their image reached the embroidery company's manufacturer. Each design only needs to be digitised once because it gets stored on the memories of both the sewing machine and the computer, making multiple copies of one design very easy to process. As a result, the time taken to embroider the same image on a whole boxful of garments is considerably less than it is for even just half a box of different designs.
Whether it's embroidery done on just one garment or on 1000 this article has outlined the method and techniques used to get the job done. Embroidery has not always been carried out using computer technology and indeed not always with electronic sewing machines, but since the days in which these methods started to be used the industry has simply been growing and growing. Whether it's embroidery done on just one garment or on 1000 this article has outlined the method and techniques used to get the job done. Embroidery has not always been carried out using computer technology and indeed not always with electronic sewing machines, but since the days in which these methods started to be used the industry has simply been growing and growing.
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 view the company's entire range of product offerings.
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