How to Make patches for Jacket backs

mrshill

Hopefully someone here has some experience in doing this and can offer me some assistance I have a few questions so please help where you can. I have visited a few website and seen custom made patches for motocycle jacket back my question is (1). What material is used to make the patch. (2) What process is used to cut the patch out after it is sew (3) What type of stitching is used to give the patch the finished look on the edge. I know that is called merrowed or marrowed. (4) Is there a special type of machine that one has to have to create this stitch. (5) What type of machine is used to attach these patches to lets say a leather vest. I know there are a lot of question but I would really like to know about this as i have a convention to go to in Jan and I am trying to see if this is something that I can do.

Thanks


Carolyn

SunEmbroidery

Twill fabric is usually used to make patches. The fabric is cut and finished with a merrowing machine. Some patches have glue on the back so they can be heat pressed before being sewn with a sewing machine on to a garment.

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Dragoniak

Hello,
I'm not sure if were talking about the same thing, but we do badges for coveralls. What we do is use a big sheet of twill, with iron-on thick backing and rack that up for our two head embroidery machine. We embroider the design (2.5 in x 3.5 in) filling up the whole area with about 12-15 logos per side of the sheet. At the end the machine does a stitch run around the logo where the merrow boarder would be to mark it where our cutters will cut. Normally you would have a dye cutter do the work, we have someone just cut around this stitch run around the board and then we do the actual border in our Merrow MG-3U (which is the one that does the nice badge borders). We dont glue any plastic sheet in the back like many do because we sew it to the garment right away and the backing makes it ridgid enough. We use normal sewing machine to sew it to the coveralls, stitches go just on the inside of the Merrow border, with same color thread as the border.

Merrow machine were (dont know if they still are) really hard to find last year when we got ours. We looked and waited for 6 months before we found a used one. Before we got the machine we used to do a thick steil border around where the Merrow machine border would be and we carefully cut around the outside edge to make it look abit like a Merrow Border, but this is not nearly as neat and clean as the real deal.


Hope that helped

PatchSuperstore

That material would be a twill backing and can be cut out in the shape of the design. Motorcycle patches usually are completly embroidered so there is no twill showing and just embroidery. this style 100% embroidered looks the best.

If you want to attach these to leather you need a good quality needle for leather or heavy duty canvas. Most machines can handle application of the embroidered patches no problem. Just try not to burn through it with a cheapo machine

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