How To Embroider Hats
Grab your measuring tape place the cap on the mannequin head or willing accomplice and measure from ribs 1-8.
How to embroider hats. Examine it so that you can get a feel for the amount of space between each rib. To embroider we need to open up the back of the hat and hoop it with a circular hoop. Please do specify your PMS or CMYK colors of your logo so that we get the colors right.
This flattens the fabric and when flat the arch changes. You will then need a hoop and fabric stabilizer to hold the cap in place while embroidering. You can embroider on all four sides of these hats.
A basic formula that works for many hats is 107 mm radius 214 mm diameter and maximum width of 325 width for a 12 cm hoop and a maximum width of 425 for a size 15 cm hoop. Sharp micro tip scissors. Most of the caps or baseball caps are embroidered before stitching.
Embroidery placed lower on a hat next to a bill of a hat often was there before assembling the hat. How to Embroider Hats with an Embroidery Machine. If the artwork is a vector EPSAICDR and converted to curves with the PMS shades it will be great else we can work with bitmaps as well.
Machine Embroidering the Front and Center of the Hat. Do not place your design lower than 12 inch from the brim of the cap or youll risk needle breaks. Usually the stitching was on a flat panel program.
Then hoop a. Varsity hats tend to fit a little closer to the head because they do not have any laminated backing structure on the front of the panel. It has a threading diagram that clearly depicts how the machine can be readied for embroidering a hat.