February 04, 2019
2019 Wearables Apparel Design Awards – Best Embroidery
Discover the best looks in the industry in apparel and decoration. Here, we present the results for Best Embroidery.
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Best Embroidery
Winner: Medusa Design. Supplier: Ignition Drawing; ignitiondrawing.com
This intricate design was drawn in-house by Ignition Drawing’s resident artist Travis Bundy, based off a sketch by the team’s vector guru Mark Hardouin, according to Jesse Eliott, digitizing product manager for Ignition. Eliott wanted to highlight Madeira’s metallic twist threads in the piece. “I made a couple different versions, changing the scale colors and some even having metallic red in the lips,” Eliott says. The final version has approximately 210,000 stitches in 16 colors on a background of faux gold leather.
Best Feature: “Although the blends have to be the best I’ve ever done, I would say the special feature is the snakeskin pattern,” Eliott says. “I handmade my own program split-stitch patterns so I could just fill the area and let the patterns happen.”
1st Runner-Up: Full-Back Blended Design. Supplier: Vantage Apparel (asi/93390); vantageapparel.com
2nd Runner-Up: Floral Varsity Design. Supplier: Trimark (asi/92121); pcna.com/trimark
Finalist: Rock Crawler Embroidery. Supplier: Emerald City Embroidery; emeraldcityemb.com
Finalist: Beauty of Africa Embroidery (BG410). Supplier: EmbroiderMe; kddiddesigns.com
Finalist: Classic Car Embroidery. Supplier: Tri-Mountain (asi/92125); trimountain.com
Finalist: Embroidered Collar. Supplier: We Sew 4U
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