The Involution Guide To Embroidered Jackets

Are you looking to add embroidery to your jacket? You’ve come to the right place. Adding embroidery to your jacket can add a sense of personality to your jacket that allows you to stand out and feel unique. Whether that be by including a logo or design, embroidery can take your jacket to the next level.

Embroidered jackets have become a popular choice from the workplace to a fashion staple, and at Involution, we provide a wide range of jackets to personalise. From puffer jackets to winter parkas, to hi-vis worker coats, bombers and softshells, we guarantee to have the right jacket for you, ready to embroider. You can find our blog post on what jacket might be best for you and your team here.  

Whether you’ve chosen the perfect jacket from our range, or have jackets already purchased (you can send them to us for decoration), we’ll take you through the ins and outs of jacket embroidery, from what you can do, where and how long it will take.

Embroidery, especially in jackets, is a popular decoration method for personalisation and promotion. It is done by using an embroidery machine with needles and threads to stitch your logo or design onto jackets. To ensure the highest quality outcome, here at Involution, we use Tajima embroidery machines and Madeira threads to deliver our perfectly consistent embroidery designs every time, operated by skilled embroiders with years of experience. From combining these three important components, we can embroider logos, names, designs and slogans onto jackets.

When it comes to sending in your files to be embroidered, a DST file (already embroidered digitised files) is what makes our Tajima machines run your designs perfectly each time. So, if you have your design in a DST file, great, you are all good to go, but don’t worry if you don’t, we can create DST files for your designs. Simply send in your design as a JPEG, PDF or PNG, and we can convert these files into a DST file at a small £25 set-up charge.

You can, in fact, embroider onto rain or waterproof jackets without creating holes in the garment that would allow water to leak through; of course, the main aim of a waterproof jacket is to keep the rain out! We can embroider onto rain or waterproof jackets and is a specialist technique overseen by our team who have performed this many of times; ensuring your jackets deliver the functionalities as they should. To create a watertight embroidery, we use a heat-pressed film that forms a waterproof seal, allowing us to embroider rainproof jackets without compromising their integrity or water resistance.

Yes we can - the technique of embroidering onto a puffer is the same as when we embroider onto jackets or other items of clothes. The same machine, threads and frames are used, with a slight change to how the jacket is framed and placed on the machine. As extra care is taken to not embroider through the product padding, many of our puffer jackets have easy embroidery access zips which allow for a smooth decoration on the jacket without affecting the padding integrity. The access zips also hide the inner stitching for a clean and polished finish.

While many businesses in Leeds and across the UK provide jacket embroidery, Involution stands out as the preferred brand partner. With 25 years of experience in embroidery and printing, we have proudly delivered quality embroidered workwear and jackets for businesses across the UK and EMEA.

We are true professionals at our trade, and we take great care that all jackets we embroider have excellent decoration, maintains its integrity, arrives undamaged, and retains its waterproofing abilities to keep you dry throughout the winter.

As their Brand Partner, Rally The Globe come to us for their branded clothing and merchandise options for their exciting rally events. For one of their events, they launched their Generations Rally, for which we proudly had the pleasure to put together embroidered softshell jackets for the event. With the themed event embroidery to the left chest and be classic Rally The Globe business logo to the back neck, we created a double-branded jacket for all racers to wear during the rally. With the combination of professional embroidery, and premium jacket choice, a masterpiece was created and presented to all attendees of the event. The gift was well received by all those involved, on brand and allowed for excellent brand exposure throughout the event photography. Photo credits to Gerard Brown Photography.

Helping our friends on their ESG roadmap, we kitted out the Oyster team with jackets and bodywarmers that use recycled materials for the outer shell and recycled plastic bottles for the jacket filling. It was a conscious product choice for the business to align with their mission to becoming more sustainabile and green in their day-t-day business activity. Their eco-friendly outerwear options were then embroidered with the Oyster logo to create this clean, professional and effective branded jacket.

Taylors came to us with the idea of a workwear refresh, and we delivered! For the colder days when working on cars, we incorporated the Taylors logo on the left chest on this gilet jacket to make sure the full team stayed warm, and looked on brand, when getting the job done. The outerwear option also provide to be a popular choice, for it not only looks great whilst fixing cars but also an easy transition choice for out of work hours too! Long gone are the days when uniform is only for the workplace, and instead a casual and functional option that can be worn out after the job is done.

There are a variety of options for you to embroider your jacket; for example, adding a name to a jacket is becoming a popular choice amongst businesses. Why your name? Adding your name to your jacket, adds a personalised interaction between you and your customers, creating a sense of comfortability from knowing the name of who they are talking to. The result is a deeper connection to your brand. 

Alongside embroidering your name onto a jacket, a jacket allows for enough room for dual branding, by adding your logo or slogan to the chest, sleeve or back. For example, you can have your name on the left chest and your logo on the right, combining both can help build better customer connections with your brand by simply adding a touch of personalisation.

Although it might sound simple, having names on jackets makes it easier to identify whose jacket belongs to who; just in case of a mix-up at work.

You can have any font you’d like! Times New Roman? No problem, Italic Bold? Great choice. Have you created your own bespoke font? Just as simple for us! And if you have no brand guidelines or specified font, we are happy to help you choose the right one for you that will make your name or slogan stand out. We can simply turn any font into a DST file ready to embroider perfectly with our Tajima machines.

The time it takes to embroider a jacket comes down to the stitch count of your design. If you have a large back embroidery, this could take hours versus a small left chest logo which could be up to 15 minutes. Across our 10 embroidery machines, we can run your design efficiently producing hundreds of your products per hour.

And whilst you may have experienced delays or issues with embroidered jackets elsewhere, we pride ourselves on a fast, effective and high-quality service from start to finish; typically working to a 3 to 5-day lead time from design approval. So, if you are after a custom embroidered jacket, you’ve come to the right place.

Absolutely! Our fast turnaround time and express delivery option means we can get your jacket embroidered and back to you within days without comprising on quality; so no matter your rush or request, please contact our team to see how we can help.

At any given time, our embroidery machines can work with 15 embroidery threads, meaning 15 different colours can be used to create your design. With approximately 150 colours of Madeira threads stocked in our production facility, and access to over 400 further colours, our thread range guarantees to create the perfect embroidery to match your brand.

We know there are a lot of places you can choose to get your jackets embroidered, so why choose us?

Our main goal is to ensure that you receive the right jacket for you, for the right purposes to get the job done. To make sure you’re choosing the best choice for you and your team, we are able to offer and send out product samples for you to try on, quality check and obtain real-life feedback.

The same care and consideration is taken for the embroidery. Embroidery swatches are a key part of our production process, it’s how we can ensure the perfect outcome every time and that you are happy with the pre-production sample also. The swatches allow us to test how your design will come to life with embroidery and make further changes to perfect your embroidery.

Only once your embroidery swatch has been signed off, will the design go into production with your choice of jacket.

Hopefully, within this post, we have answered any possible questions you have had about embroidering jackets. You can find more FAQs around our embroidery service here or if you have any specific questions about ordering or customisation, feel free to get in contact with our team today for assistance.