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Today we started on
creating a new Electric Scotland logo but one that would also work well
with embroidery and engraving. It's actually pretty well impossible to
tell you what Debbie has to go through to do this work but I'll have a
go...
First she has to design the
logo on the computer. That said what she has to work with looks
nothing like the finished product as she has to work with just 16 colours
that will represent the complete embroidery. It's not just a matter of
doing a logo, she has to decide on the colours, which colours will get
sewn first and what density of stiching. I would say she must have put in
2 solid hours of work on this first design but some can take days if she
has nothing similar to work with. In our case we were able to take
two basic designs that had already been configured (the crest and the
piper) and then just do adjustments to complete this first design.
Here is Debbie about to start work on the
computer and you might just be able to see the work in progress on the
computer screen
This is the new wokshop we're working in and
you can see that Debbie has already inserted the floppy disk into the
machine and is now coding the machine for which colours will be sewn in
which order.
The problem with new designs is that you have
to try them out and then try alternative colours to see how they look.
Each design will take at least 10 minutes to embroider.
As you can see as well as Debbie setting the
stich colour order on the computer she also has to ensure everything is
centered so that the logo is positioned properly and that the needles
won't hit the plastic template that is used to hold the garment. It's then
on to the embroidery process.
And you can see here we're almost at the end
of the emroidery
And the completed design which took over
14,000 stitches to complete
And the final product. Mind you this is
not the finish of the process as there are small details which need to be
corrected before this logo is ready for commercial use. Like the
.com part of the logo is too near the curve, the Piper wants to be just a
fraction higher to give a better effect of the pipes, etc. But we are
pretty much there with this logo and so perhaps you can see how much work
goes into designing a new logo capable of being embroidered.
I did ask Debbie if she
could use my current logo but because of the fairly solid blue background
this would have meant too many stiches to give a good effect and would
have ended up with a puckered look to the logo which would not have looked
good. This means you do sometimes need to comrpomise to get a proper
effect with embroidery. We are off to try another two possible options. |
