Our shop has seen thousands of customers looking for embroidered patches, embroidered hats and embroidery on jackets and golf shirts. After 32 years of experience, Artik has become Toronto’s expert embroidery shop. Here are a few essential tips for creating an awesome embroidery design!
Design for the Embroidery Machine
Our embroidery machine completing a complex design on a sweater.
Embroidery machines are able to stitch amazingly complex designs into all sorts of materials. Our job is to create stylized designs that will turn out beautifully once stitched onto the curved bill of a baseball cap or the thick material of a polo shirt.
Keep your design somewhat simple with bold lines and areas of filled in colour. Often a stylized version of your logo will look better than a full colour design. We’ll digitize your logo or design for embroidery. You can keep some complexity in your design, as our staff and machines are capable of amazing embroideries. Talk to our expert embroidery team for consultation on your design 🙂
Save money with smaller designs. Our embroidery pricing is determined by the number of stitches in your design. A small design with many complex lines may be the same price as a large simple design.
Embroidery prices are based on stitch-count (larger and more complex designs will cost more).
Most products on artik.com include a small embroidery in the price. The best way to find out your cost is to contact us for a price quote.
Three Steps to Embroidery
Step 1. Contact
We’ll look at your art file and reply with a price quote in a friendly no-obligation email. |
Step 2. Digitize
We digitize your art file which turns it into a format that the embroidery machine can read. |
Step 3. Embroider!
The embroidery machine follows the digital instructions, quickly threading the design into fabric. |
Products We Embroider in Toronto
Embroidered Baseball Caps and Winter Hats
We embroider baseball caps and hats every day! They make a great fashion accessory, they sell well as merchandise and they have a high-value for giveaways and promotions. That’s not to mention the baseball teams who order custom embroidered hats with their team logos!
Remember that we can add embroidered designs to the front of the cap, the sides and the back, all done right in downtown Toronto! Get creative and colourful to make your custom embroidered baseball cap stand out.
An order of custom embroidered hats ready for customer delivery!
Our mannequin head wearing custom sunglasses and a backwards embroidered Artik cap.
A slightly blurry picture of a one colour embroidered hat in our shop.
Custom Embroidered Polos
Embroidered golf shirts and polo shirts are popular as workplace attire, for special outdoor events, for Ontario school uniforms and of course, for golfers out on the green.
We often add embroidery to the front left chest of the polo shirt but we’ve been known to make larger embroidered designs across the chest or along the back. Just remember to design your embroidery around the polo’s buttons and pockets!
We’re happy with how this six colour polo shirt embroidery turned out!
Embroidered Patches and Crests
Making embroidered patches is an art form that has gained a ton of popularity in the last year here in Toronto. We see a ton of funny, beautiful and super creative patches being ordered all the time. Black and white embroidered patches with intricate line work are an elegant design. Colourful landscapes and flowery designs have also made a splash on embroidered patches with iron-on backs. Of course words and sayings look great, the embroidered threading adding life to unique fonts.
One colour embroidery. | Two colour embroidery. | Three colour embroidery. | Four colour embroidery. |
Custom Embroidered Jackets and Sweaters
When the seasons change, our embroidery team sees a lot more custom embroidery on jackets and embroidered sweaters. Embroidered jackets are great for outdoor runs and charity events, for high end staff uniforms and as merchandise for sporty or outdoorsy brands.
Sweaters, sweatshirts, zippered sweatshirts and hoodies are all perfect for custom embroidery too! These cozy options are a clever merch idea for bands, a great look for retail fashion and a smart idea for embroidered uniforms. Customers who love your brand will be happy to zip into their embroidered hoodie.
Embroidered windbreakers make for sleek running gear.
Cozy embroidered sweaters!
Talk to Toronto’s Embroidery Pros
Customers often ask how to make their design perfect for embroidery. Whether you are designing for embroidered hats, custom jackets or any other product, contact our team for friendly advice and practical tips!