...great...nothing to add...very good!!

Hi everyone i am new at this part of it i have been doing embroidery work for 15 years pretty much know all the ins and outs of the machine part and the small stuff of digitizing i have had trouble with small lettering all along the way i have done about everything you can do and still not happy with the way it looks is there a software just for small lettering to make my work place a happy place and me a happy girl once again

You are offer great tips!

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Linda Luo

Thanks a lot for all the comments!!
i'd love to hear more from others as well.

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I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who posted tips in this thread. It has been very informative.

-Tina

LIke many others on here I want to say thanks for the info posted on here. I have only been in this buiness for a year and I have learnt a lot.
I recently went to a seminar held by Madeira threads. Seminar was specifically about stitching small fonts. Your info Omar is right on the money. The only extra things I did learn was to use 60 thread and the appropriate needle (smallest possible for the thread) are very important. Also that underlays must be changed for different fabrics. Polos sometimes need a center line underlay and sometimes zigzag. Shirts look good with zigzag. The stitch density must be increased too ( in Wilcom the density setting is reduced to 30).
After the seminar and what I have learnt on here I can now stitch really small lettering.
Hope my comments help .
Earl

In my experience:

Lettering of 7mm and above can be done with standard viscose rayon thread (no. 40), needle 75. The letters need one running and one fill underlayer. For larger fonts (2cm and more) 2 fill underlayers + 1 running underlayer are recommended.

For lettering 4-7mm, use just one running underlayer (1.5-2 mm stitch length), density should be 4 (that's one line per 0.4 mm). Viscose rayon no.40 and needle 75.

You can do any of those at 750-800 RPM easily.

The minimum lettering you can do is 3mm, but here you don't use any underlayer, you up the density to 3.5 and use the viscose rayon no.60 (thinner) thread for best results. 600-650RPM is recommended.

Keep in mind that for perfect tiny lettering you'll need really thickly woven fabric you're sewing on. For instance, polo pique shirts won't suffer lettering of under 6mm because of their rather large hole structure. But if you get a decent cotton or polyester fabric, or even felt, that'll survive any letter size.


Another trick is to use matte threads (for instance, Madeira has those neat looking Frozen Matt threads now). I've seen lettering of 2mm done with those, but not with Satins - they were done like those woven tags, with all stitches in the same direction.


Fonts of over 4cm high (we do fonts like that on our embroidered flags), can't be done with satins (because of the column widths). I like to use a random division fill (random stitch lengths between 2 and 4mm). This gives the letters a more hand-made look (I simply hate the machine-embroidered look of the flat fill and almost never use it, even on patches).

nice... very good advice..i do a lot of designs and mostly my client want to put a small lettering in their design and it is below 4mm what should i do to make it more readable

Thanks for the great tips!
I have when small lettering comes out wiggly.

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Thanks for this. I've always had issues with doing small text and making it clean and clear. Will try this at work tomorrow.