Get custom embroidery services at Real Thread. We specialize in embroidered t-shirts, hats, polos, and more with personalized designs for your brand.
Professional custom clothing embroidery services for fashion brands, corporate uniforms & custom merch. We offer logo digitization, 3D puff embroidery, bulk orders, fast turnaround & premium durable stitching on hoodies, polos, jackets and hats. Get your free quote today!
Real Thread sets itself apart from other custom embroidery shops by slowing down the stitching to maintain control over the quality of the finished product.
While some shops pump out as many as 11,000 stitches per minute with machinery like ours, our team chooses to max out around 800 stitches per minute—ensuring that the job is done to the highest possible quality, regardless of how many units are in your order.
Looking for reliable custom clothing embroidery suppliers nearby? We are professional Chinese clothing embroidery manufacturers offering one-stop personalized embroidery services for global merchants, apparel brands, enterprises and small-batch custom retailers.
We specialize in embroidered customization for a wide range of garments, including hoodies, T-shirts, polo shirts, jackets, work uniforms, hats, sweatpants and other apparel products. You can customize brand logos, unique patterns, slogans, name labels and creative decorative embroidery designs as you need. We provide flexible customization covering pattern design, thread color selection, embroidery placement and different embroidery techniques such as flat embroidery, 3D puff embroidery, appliqué embroidery and more.
Our team of stitching wizards/clothing embroiderers are at the ready. Here’s how we take your design from cool idea to tangible item.
Design like the wind
Get started by determining what design you want to embroider, and on what garment! Need help making that call? Let us help.
Let’s get digital
Using digital design software, we create a model of your design that includes the necessary stitching to bring it to life—kind of like the process of 3D graphic design.
Oops, I did it again…
Here’s where our custom embroidery services really come into play: once your design is digitized and ready to be stitched, the embroidery process consists of punching the thread into the garment…over and over again.
The big reveal
After we remove any excess backing and cut off any flyaway stitches, your garment is complete!
Frequently Asked Questions
Custom Embroidery FAQs
Where can I order the best custom embroidery?
We may be biased, but you came to the right place for shirt embroidery, hat embroidery, and beyond. Have more specific questions about how to get started? Just let us know. We’re not like regular embroidery companies—we’re a cool embroidery company.
How do you make a custom embroidery design?
We take your beautiful work of art, digitize it, and enter it into our software. From there, we choose from two types of stitching: Satin stitching (where the stitches move back and forth only and are used for smaller areas) or fill stitching (where the stitching direction can be adjusted to compensate for fabric structure and pulling).
What file types can I send my design to you in?
Basic visual files like PDF, EPS, and JPEG work. If you can send in a vector art file, though, that is preferred as we can easily manipulate it if adjustments based on threading need to be made.
How many colors can my embroidered apparel design have?
Practically speaking, 7 to 8. That’s a little high, though—embroidery works best when it’s simple and not muddled up by an overly busy design.
Can I order embroidery on any product?
With embroidered apparel and custom embroidery services, the garment fabric matters less than the shape. A product is laid flat to be loaded into our embroidery machine, ensuring stitching stability. Baseball caps are trickier to embroider than sweatshirts due to their shape. For this reason, hat orders may take longer than others. Need your hats, stat? Let us know, and we’ll try to make it work!
How big can my design be?
Embroidery designs are typically smaller, but if you want to go big, try to keep it 10 x 10 inches.
What is the average turnaround time for embroidery?
We take great pride in our turnaround times—because as soon as you approve your order, you’ll be waiting for the mailman to come a-knockin’. Embroidery is a delicate process (even with high-tech machinery like ours!), and we want to ensure your design is perfect. The faster the stitching, the more the fabric is pulled. This can cause it to warp and spread. Intricate embroidery orders may take a bit longer for this reason.
Orders using specialized services—like puff embroidery—may also have a longer turn time because the material is thicker, requiring a slower stitching process.
That said, we will always do our best to get your goods in hand when needed, even if you’re working with a tight deadline. Ready to order embroidery online and need it fast? Let us know, and we’ll see what we can do!
Do you do custom embroidery patches?
Absolutely! We offer custom patches as part of our decoration services. Check out our patches page to explore styles, materials, and options.
Please note: We don’t sell standalone patches. Every patch we produce is designed to be applied directly to a garment you choose, ensuring the highest quality and longevity.
Our team of stitching wizards/clothing embroiderers are at the ready. Here’s how we take your design from cool idea to tangible item.
3D embroidery
is a distinctive decorative craft that creates raised, three-dimensional patterns on the surface of fabrics. Different from traditional flat embroidery, this technique adds special foam padding underneath embroidery threads before stitching. After dense stitching covers the foam completely, the excess foam is trimmed off to form plump, protruding patterns with strong stereoscopic effects.
Flocking embroidery
Flocking embroidery effectively upgrades the texture and high-end sense of clothing. Whether for fashion streetwear, corporate uniforms or personalized custom garments, this delicate craft helps your apparel stand out from conventional printed and embroidered styles with unique visual and tactile charm.
sequin embroidery
This craft is widely applied to dresses, We support fully customized sequin layout, color matching and pattern design, able to produce both delicate small-area embellishment and bold full-piece sequin embroidery, delivering high-end, glamorous decorative effects for personalized clothing and brand fashion items.
Affixed cloth embroidery
We adopt high-quality adhesive lining and durable embroidery yarns to ensure the affixed cloth patches fit tightly with the base fabric without bulging or falling off. Various stitching styles are available, including lock stitch, zigzag stitch and decorative outline stitch,
Maching embroidery
Digital programming allows flexible customization of logos, letters, patterns and graphic designs. Whether for small-batch personalized orders or large-scale bulk brand production, machine embroidery can maintain unified product quality, shorten production cycles and realize efficient mass customization with stable, exquisite and long-lasting decorative effects.
Design like the wind
From streamlined panel construction to subtle decorative details, our exquisite craftsmanship turns wind-inspired creativity into wearable art, balancing fashionable fluid styling with long-lasting durability for everyday and streetwear scenarios alike.
towel embroidery
Our towel embroidery adopts high-density computerized embroidery technology to create delicate, long-lasting patterns on various towels including bath towels, hand towels, face towels, hotel towels and gift towels.
plain embroidery
Plain embroidery is one of the most classic and widely adopted traditional embroidery techniques, featuring neat, flat and smooth stitch surfaces without three-dimensional bulges. Adopting uniform and dense flat stitching methods, the embroidery pattern fits closely to the fabric surface, delivering a delicate, concise and high-grade visual effect.
