Chenille

Chenille, from the French word meaning "fuzzy caterpillar", is a type of embroidery made from loops of yarn, resulting in a finished design with a soft, fuzzy appearance. The marketplace, in its never-ending search for something new and different, is rediscovering the world of chenille.

Our chenille is produced on manual chenille embroidery machines. Not the automated ones that 95% of embroiderers are using today. The ones that are used by our master craftsmen done with their hands and their feet. This method produces a tighter stitch than that of the mass production behemoths. This also allows for each patch to have it's own character just as it did on letterman jackets from the 50's.

Chenille designs demand size. The amount of design detail is directly proportional to the design size. The smaller the design size, the less detail. This makes perfect sense when you consider the relative size of a moss stitch or chain stitch versus the size of a standard embroidery stitch. Unlike standard embroidery, the nature of chenille embroidery does not permit the use of multiple layers. However, significant detail can be added to smaller chenille designs by over-sewing the chenille design with standard embroidery.

Want to try something different? We can use multiple strands of yarn - The look and texture of three, four or even five strands of thread are quite distinctive and unique. And by the way, no one ever said each strand must be of the same colour. Children's apparel is especially attractive with chenille decoration. The promotional products industry also makes use of chenille for sweat shirt emblems, or direct chenille-embroidery combinations on sweat and wool jacket backs.

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