By TYTN Tailors
Resources for people who have to buy the shirts.
Practical notes from a Houston embroidery and tailoring business—not generic filler.
Embroidery vs. Screen Printing for Company Apparel
Both embroidery and screen printing can put a logo on a shirt. They are not interchangeable. Embroidery is a thread construction that sits in the fabric. Screen printing is ink on the surface. For most corporate polos, hats, and jackets, embroidery is the method companies choose when they want the mark to look finished after months of wear.
How Much Does Custom Logo Embroidery Cost?
A standard left-chest or hat-front logo (about 6,000–8,000 stitches) is $18–$24 per piece at 12–24 units, stepping down to $9–$13 at 100+. One-offs are $36–$46. Hats add $4–$7. Digitizing is $50–$65 one-time. Full packages — garment plus embroidery — start around $42–$49 for value polos at 12+. Exact quotes still follow after we review the artwork.
How to Choose the Best Polo Shirts for Your Business
The polo is the default corporate shirt because it takes a left-chest logo cleanly and works in more rooms than a t-shirt. The wrong polo, though, makes even good embroidery look cheap: shiny fabric, a collapsing collar, or a women's team forced into boxy unisex cuts.
Building a Professional Employee Uniform Program
A uniform program is not a one-time merch order. It is a small system: which garments, which logo version, who gets what, and how a new hire is outfitted in week one. Companies that skip the system reorder mismatched shirts six months later.
How to Prepare a Company Logo for Embroidery
Most delayed embroidery jobs are artwork jobs. A low-resolution PNG, a logo built from thin script, or a mark with ten spot colors will not sew the way it looks in a brand deck. Preparing the file saves a round of revisions.
Custom Embroidered Hats: Placement and Design
Hats fail when a full left-chest logo is dropped onto a curved panel. The crown is smaller than it looks in a mockup, and structured vs unstructured caps sew differently. Placement is a design decision, not an afterthought.
Bulk Embroidery Ordering Guide
Bulk embroidery goes wrong when sizes are guessed, artwork arrives late, and nobody owns the in-hands date. The fix is a short brief, not a bigger order form.
The Complete Guide to Corporate Embroidery
Corporate embroidery is the craft of putting a durable, consistent mark on the clothes a company actually wears. This guide ties together garments, artwork, quoting, and the parent-company tailoring option so a first-time buyer is not assembling the process from ads.
Custom Apparel for Employee Onboarding
A new hire who starts without the team shirt spends weeks looking like a visitor. Onboarding apparel is a small operations problem: stock, sizes, and a logo that already exists.