TROUBLESHOOTER
A word of advice on how to deal with those headache fabrics
By DANIELLE PARK and NATALIE GREETHAM
The advances in fabric technology in recent years have been phenomenal, but these advances present some difficulties for embroiderers. The experts at Madeira talk you through how to deal with those headache fabrics.
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stretchy fabrics becoming more common place we hear an abundance of grumbles coming from embroiderers. These fabrics, although fantastic for purpose can be extremely difficult to embroider with holes, puckering and the fabric slipping becoming issues for machine operators. But fear not!
There are a few pre-emptitive actions that can be taken to make embroidering onto these fabrics easier, such as: l Do not over stretch your fabrics while framing.
l Check you are using ball point needles (for relaxed weave fabrics) to help eliminate holes, and remove unnecessary stitches in your design.
l Always tell your digitiser what fabric you are embroidering onto. Digitising plays a large part and a skilled digitiser can help create stability in the design by laying the correct framework of underlay stitches.
Another option, one more down to personal preference, is a light coating of temporary adhesive spray onto the
backing before its framed, will help prevent slipping.
After sometime in pursuit, the ʻdreamʼ backing for such fabrics has been developed – Weblon. This is an extremely strong cutaway backing (doubly impressive as it is only 40g) and in most cases only one layer is required. It is non-slip, no need to spray. Weblon is also very soft and so avoids skin irritation. Due to its light composition it does not bulk up embroideries causing them to fall forward from light fabrics.
Delight your customers
Users of Weblon really love this product and are convinced itʼs the optimum solution for anyone trying to embroider onto such fabrics.
There are some designs though, no matter how skilled the digitiser, or which techniques are used, which cannot be accurately represented without being stitch heavy.
Meet your customers’ embroidery expectations
Managing your customersʼ embroidery expectations is key, so discussing the design with your customer and creating a
Rebecca Adlington demonstrates a particular difficult fabric to embroider
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slightly more simple ʻembroidery friendlyʼ image will instantly reduce the likelihood of puckering issues, or holes forming. Ensuring that the customer is delighted with their finished garments.
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