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Custom Embroidery
Get custom embroidery services at Real Thread. We specialize in embroidered t-shirts, hats, polos, and more with personalized designs for your brand.
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Quality that pops!
Real Thread sets itself apart from other custom embroidery shops by slowing down the stitching to maintain control over the quality of the finished product.
While some shops pump out as many as 11,000 stitches per minute with machinery like ours, our team chooses to max out around 800 stitches per minute—ensuring that the job is done to the highest possible quality, regardless of how many units are in your order.
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Wolf Embroidered Zip Hoodies
Bella + Canvas 3909 – Standard Embroidery
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Chiringo Sweatshirts
Champion S700 – Puff Embroidery
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Axios Local Hat
AS Colour 1142 – Standard Embroidery
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Black Jet Baking Co. Sweatshirt
Gildan 18000 – Standard Embroidery
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King of Kings Foam Trucker Hat
Otto Cap 32-467 – Standard Embroidery
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Bight Ideas Brewing Polo
Nike 266998 – Puff Embroidery
Three Embroidery Options
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Standard Embroidery
Standard embroidery uses basic thread/yarn; the final result is nearly flat on your chosen garment. Metallic thread can be used to add a bit of flare.
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Puff Embroidery
Puff uses a thick, foam-like material that is then stitched over, resulting in designs that pop off the garment and create a 3D effect.
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Patches
Patches are a great way to add a detailed and complex design to hats, bags, sweatshirts, jackets, and other apparel items.
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Embroidery Apparel
AS Colour 5102
4.7
Stencil Hood
Alternative Apparel 9590
5.0
Rocky Zip Hoodie
Nike NKDC1963
3.7
Dri-FIT Micro Pique 2.0 Polo
Independent Trading Co IND280SL
5.0
Avenue Pullover Hooded Sweatshirt
Sport-Tek ST274
Lightweight French Terry Bomber
Sport-Tek LST274
Ladies Lightweight French Terry Bomber
Bella+Canvas 3719
5.0
Unisex Sponge Fleece Pullover Hoodie
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Embroidery on Hats
Choose from various custom embroidered hats and beanie styles to showcase your designs: baseball hats, trucker hats, dad caps, bucket hats, and beyond.
Bringing embroidered apparel to life.
Our team of stitching wizards/clothing embroiderers are at the ready. Here's how we take your design from cool idea to tangible item.
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Design like the wind
Get started by determining what design you want to embroider, and on what garment! Need help making that call? Let us help.
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Let's get digital
Using digital design software, we create a model of your design that includes the necessary stitching to bring it to life—kind of like the process of 3D graphic design.
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Oops, I did it again...
Here's where our custom embroidery services really come into play: once your design is digitized and ready to be stitched, the embroidery process consists of punching the thread into the garment...over and over again.
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The big reveal
After we remove any excess backing and cut off any flyaway stitches, your garment is complete!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Custom Embroidery FAQs
We may be biased, but you came to the right place for shirt embroidery, hat embroidery, and beyond. Have more specific questions about how to get started? Just let us know. We're not like regular embroidery companies—we're a *cool* embroidery company.
We take your beautiful work of art, digitize it, and enter it into our software. From there, we choose from two types of stitching: Satin stitching (where the stitches move back and forth only and are used for smaller areas) or fill stitching (where the stitching direction can be adjusted to compensate for fabric structure and pulling).
Basic visual files like PDF, EPS, and JPEG work. If you can send in a vector art file, though, that is preferred as we can easily manipulate it if adjustments based on threading need to be made.
Practically speaking, 7 to 8. That's a little high, though—embroidery works best when it's simple and not muddled up by an overly busy design.
With embroidered apparel and custom embroidery services, the garment fabric matters less than the shape. A product is laid flat to be loaded into our embroidery machine, ensuring stitching stability. Baseball caps are trickier to embroider than sweatshirts due to their shape. For this reason, hat orders may take longer than others. Need your hats, stat? Let us know, and we'll try to make it work!
Embroidery designs are typically smaller, but if you want to go big, try to keep it 10 x 10 inches.
We take great pride in our turnaround times—because as soon as you approve your order, you'll be waiting for the mailman to come a-knockin'. Embroidery is a delicate process (even with high-tech machinery like ours!), and we want to ensure your design is perfect. The faster the stitching, the more the fabric is pulled. This can cause it to warp and spread. Intricate embroidery orders may take a bit longer for this reason.
Orders using specialized services—like puff embroidery—may also have a longer turn time because the material is thicker, requiring a slower stitching process.
That said, we will always do our best to get your goods in hand when needed, even if you're working with a tight deadline. Ready to order embroidery online and need it fast? Let us know, and we'll see what we can do!
Absolutely! We offer custom patches as part of our decoration services. Check out our patches page to explore styles, materials, and options.
Please note: We don’t sell standalone patches. Every patch we produce is designed to be applied directly to a garment you choose, ensuring the highest quality and longevity.
Other Services
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Screen Printing
Browse top-notch garments, upload designs, and get quality custom-printed or embroidered apparel in as little as 3 days
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Add-ons
Help your brand stand out from the crowd with our retail add-ons.
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Fulfillment
Storing and shipping your goods has never been easier than with Real Thread’s fulfillment services.
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