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I'm going back to the topic of chevrons and today I will look at the base of the chevron workflow, which has a base. Such a base can be woven fabrics such as gabardine or twill, nonwovens such as felt, and specialized materials such as Step, Twilly, Canvay.
Special materials were created by manufacturers specifically for appliqués and patches. Often they have a texture that imitates embroidery digitizing. This helps save stitches. For example, do not embroider the background.
And the inside of it is glued with something like an adhesive spunbond (poly mesh). I believe this was done not only for gluing to the product, but also for greater stability:
The material is dense and pleasant to the touch.
I will not dwell on the method of producing chevrons with subsequent overlaying after embroidery digitizing services. I don't have such an overlock, how can I write about it. And I don’t see much sense in describing this process. Everything is simple there: embroidered, cut out along the perimeter and processed along the cut. I am more interested in options with trimming along the edge of the fully embroidered chevron and embroidering the chevron on the blank.
For starters, I'll tell you about the chevron on the workpiece , the edge of which has already been processed with an overlock. The embroidery digitizing services process to create the file is as follows:
Create a template for the form of a patch. To do this, the stripe is scanned and its shape is digitized along the perimeter with a simple stitch (run). At the end of the line, a command is given to stop the machine and move the hoop away.
Creation of the design of the embroidery itself inside the form template.
The embroidery process itself is simple and partly resembles the creation of an overhead applique:
A stabilizer is poured, which has an adhesive layer on one side, such as filmoplast. Glue side up. The protective film is removed from the stabilizer. If there is no such stabilizer, then you can use a regular one, you just have to use temporary fixing glue.
The program is loading. The machine sews the first marking line, stops and the hoop moves out.
The chevron blank is glued in the place marked with a line.
The entire design of the patch is embroidered.
The stabilizer expands and comes off the patch.
An adhesive layer is applied.
The most curious thing is that we do not sell such blanks. Or I just don't know about it. Although in the west, they come in different shapes, types and colors. Here I saw them only once at the last exhibition of the textile industry. And to make them myself seems strange to me, because you can immediately embroider a chevron and not complicate the process with various stages.
I will move on to the analysis of the fully embroidered chevron. I met 2 technologies for its creation:
In 1 reception.
In 2 receptions.
Embroidery technology in 1 step is as follows:
The fabric is wrapped with a dense tear-off stabilizer (1-3 layers). The fabric for reinforcement can be glued with sewing interlining. You can additionally fasten the border with a cloth. In general, there are a lot of options.
The entire design is embroidery digitizing services.
Removable and trimmed. Cutting options: manual or laser. Someone also scorches the edges of the blanks by various methods, from lighters to soldering irons and other heating devices. Who is in that much, in a word.
Then an adhesive layer is applied.
Digitizing a patch embroidery design in 1 step is the simplest of all:
We digitize the entire design.
We trim with a finishing border. The thickness of the border is not less than 3mm.
There is also an option to make this border two-layer . The second layer is placed along the outer edge of the border. It is smaller in thickness and its density is 2 times less than the main border. It serves as a protective layer in the event that, when cutting a chevron, the stitches are suddenly cut by accident.
I got such a chevron of some European football club by embroidery on fabric. I used Step as a basis. This is the second chevron in my practice. Therefore, I chose a not too complicated design for him. Apart from the letters on the bottom line, everything is simple. These letters turned out to be absolutely none. Their height is only 2mm. But I think you can still fight them in order to achieve readability.
The technique of embroidery in 2 steps is very similar to embroidery of an applique according to a pre-cut template:
Cloth is closed with a dense tear-off stabilizer. Increases as needed, as described above.
The entire design is embroidered. Instead of a border, a simple stitch is sewn.
Everything is unrolled and cut along the perimeter of the stitch.
Only 1 layer of tear-off stabilizer is placed in the hoop.
The marking line is sewn. The machine stops and the hoop moves out.
The chevron blank, which was made and cut out, is glued in the place marked with the stitching with temporary fixing glue.
The final border is embroidered.
The chevron is removed from the stabilizer.
An adhesive layer is applied.
Digitization of the embroidery design of the stripe in 2 steps :
We digitize the entire design.
The line for cutting the chevron is digitized.
The same line is copied to a new file. It will be a marking for the location of the chevron. After it, a command is placed to stop the car and leave the hoop.
The finishing curb is being digitized. The thickness of the border is not less than 3mm.
In general, there are many manufacturing options, you just need to choose an acceptable one for yourself.
PS I think that digitizing stripes is not much different from creating conventional embroidery programs. The same principles are used here: compensations are taken into account, frames are applied, close attention is paid to the joints of adjacent objects, etc. It's just that in the case of developing files for stripes, you need to be more precise with the selection of parameters in order to obtain high-quality results. And this applies to any type of patches, both 100% sewn and embroidered on the base.
Of course, it is not always possible to use a specialized fabric for embroidering chevrons - this is quite an expensive pleasure. Therefore, there is a reason to look around and consider oxford (aka awning fabric, and you can also look in the direction of raincoats), gabardine or a regular mixed diagonal (or mixed / fully synthetic twill) as a basis for embroidery of a chevron , which are much cheaper than the specialized one described above. embroidery, not sewing twill.