Custom Embroidery
Embroidery on demand from our own factory. No minimums, no digitizing fees.
Embroidery on demand from our own factory. No minimums, no digitizing fees.
Sell embroidered caps, apparel, bags, and embroidered shoes almost no other platform can make, without buying stock or paying a digitizer. JetPrint stitches every order in our own factory after your customer buys, then dropships it worldwide under your brand. Connect Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce or Wix and add print on demand embroidery to your store today.
Print on demand embroidery works like regular POD, with thread instead of ink: you list embroidered products in your store, and we stitch each item only after a customer orders it. No minimum quantity, no boxes of caps in your garage, and no digitizing fee: the stitch-file preparation that traditional embroidery shops charge $15-$60 per design for is included at JetPrint. Curious how sellers rate our custom embroidery? See JetPrint's reviews on the Shopify App Store.
Why bother with thread at all? Because embroidered products sell at higher prices and come back less often. Stitched polyester thread survives the washing, sunlight and abrasion that crack and fade printed ink, and the raised texture reads as quality the moment a customer picks the product up. If you're new to the craft itself, our guide on what is embroidery covers the history and techniques. This page covers how to sell it.
Embroidery on demand suits two kinds of sellers. Brand builders use it for logo merch: caps, polos and hoodies that customers actually wear in public, which printed promo items rarely achieve. Gift and personalization stores use it for monograms, names and small motifs, where a stitched initial justifies a price a printed one never could. Both run on the same JetPrint account, the same store integrations and the same factory that has produced custom embroidery since 2017.
Most of JetPrint's 650+ products take embroidery. These six categories are where stitched designs earn the biggest premium over print. One of them you won't find anywhere else.
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We embroider directly on shoe uppers before the shoe is assembled: a production step most POD platforms can't offer because they don't own the factory. Read the honest pros and cons of embroidered shoes before you launch a line.
The classic embroidery product for a reason: a front-panel logo on a structured cap is visible from across the street and never washes out. Snapbacks, dad hats and beanies all take logos up to 10 x 10 cm.
Left-chest logos on hoodies, sweatshirts, polos and t-shirts, the standard for brand merch and workwear. Text designs, monograms and small mascots stitch cleanly on both knits and wovens.
Embroidered tote bags and pouches hold stitching beautifully on heavy canvas: a natural fit for monogram shops and personalized gift stores.
Small embroidered motifs on the cuff or ankle turn a commodity product into a giftable one: initials, tiny mascots and holiday icons are the bestsellers here.
Pillow covers, blankets and towels with stitched names or family monograms, steady sellers year-round that spike hard around weddings and holidays.
| Embroidery | ||
|---|---|---|
| Durability | Thread outlasts the garment: no cracking or fading in the wash | Ink softens and fades over 30-50 washes |
| Texture | Raised, dimensional, reads as premium | Flat, part of the fabric |
| Detail & color | Best for bold shapes; 4 thread colors per design | Photographic detail, gradients, unlimited colors |
| Design size | Up to 10 × 10 cm | Full panels and all-over prints |
| Retail price | Commands a $5-$15 premium on comparable items | Standard POD pricing |
| Best for | Logos, text, monograms, mascots, premium merch | Artwork, photos, patterns, all-over designs |
The short version: choose embroidery when the design is a logo, name or simple graphic and the product should feel premium: caps, polos, workwear, gifts. Choose print when the design is detailed artwork, a photo or a gradient, or needs to cover the whole product. Many successful stores run both: printed all-over designs for volume, embroidered versions of their best logo at a higher price point. For a deeper breakdown, read screen printing vs. embroidery. If you're weighing stitched footwear specifically, the pros and cons of embroidered shoes post settles it with real production examples.
Embroidery quality is decided before the needle ever moves: in the digitizing. Our factory has run embroidery lines since 2017, and these are the standards every design is held to.
We stitch with 40-weight colorfast polyester thread. Polyester keeps its color through industrial washing and doesn't go brittle in sunlight the way rayon does. It's the same reason uniform makers specify it.
Fill areas are digitized at roughly 0.4 mm stitch spacing: dense enough that no fabric shows through, loose enough that the fabric doesn't pucker or stiffen into a plate. Satin columns run between 1 mm and 8 mm wide; anything wider gets a tatami fill so long stitches can't snag.
Every design gets underlay stitching first: a hidden foundation pass that anchors the fabric and stops knits from stretching mid-sew. Skipping underlay is the number one reason cheap embroidery looks wavy after one wash. We don't skip it.
Lettering stays legible down to about 5 mm letter height. Below that, thread physics wins, so if your design has finer text, we'll flag it at the proof stage rather than sew something you can't read.
Maximum embroidery area is 10 × 10 cm with up to 4 thread colors per design. A typical left-chest logo lands between 6,000 and 10,000 stitches and sews out in about 15 minutes on our multi-head machines. Every first sew-out is checked against your approved proof before the order ships.
Choose caps, apparel, bags, socks, home decor or embroidered shoes in the JetPrint app. Most of our 650+ products support embroidery.
Upload a PNG or PDF with your logo size and placement: via email or live chat today, and instantly through AI digitizing as it rolls out. Bold shapes and limited colors stitch best.
Within 2 days we send a photo of the sewn-out design for your confirmation. What you approve is exactly what your customers receive.
Orders sync from Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce or Wix. We produce in 3-7 business days and blind-ship worldwide with your branding.
Traditional embroidery pricing has three parts: a digitizing fee ($15-$60 per design), a setup or minimum-order charge, and the per-item price. JetPrint removes the first two entirely. There is no digitizing fee, no setup fee, no subscription and no minimum order: you pay the product price plus shipping only when a customer places an order. Testing ten embroidery designs costs exactly the same as testing one: nothing until they sell.
That pricing model changes what embroidery is for. Historically it only made sense for bulk uniform runs, because the fixed fees had to be spread across dozens of items. With embroidery on demand, a single embroidered cap ordered by a single customer is profitable, and since embroidered products typically retail $5-$15 above their printed equivalents, margins usually run higher than standard POD. Add custom branding and every parcel leaves the factory carrying your label, not ours.
The maximum embroidery area is 10 x 10 cm, with up to 4 thread colors per design. That comfortably covers cap fronts, left-chest logos, sleeve hits and bag monograms: the placements embroidery is best at.
No. Converting your artwork into a machine-ready stitch file is included, where traditional embroidery services charge $15-$60 per design. Our AI embroidery pipeline is making this step instant as well as free.
We fulfill embroidered products in 3-7 business days. Total delivery averages 10-18 business days depending on the destination. New designs get a sewn-out proof photo within 2 days before anything ships.
PNG or PDF works best. Bold shapes, clean outlines and a limited color palette translate to thread most faithfully. Fine photographic detail and gradients belong on printed products instead.
Yes, it's a JetPrint specialty. We embroider the uppers before the shoe is assembled in our own factory, which is why most POD platforms don't offer it. See the pros and cons of embroidered shoes before launching a line.
Embroidery for logos, text and simple graphics on premium products; printing for detailed artwork, photos and all-over designs. Our screen printing vs. embroidery guide walks through the decision case by case.
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