MotorsportFanWear.net is a China-based manufacturer that makes teamwear with embroidered crests. Polo and crew-neck styles can carry embroidery; crests are quoted per piece from your artwork, separate from the $2 name and number printing charge. Send the crest file to +86 181 7757 2115.
Which teamwear styles can carry an embroidered crest?
Polo and crew-neck styles can be embroidered. Those two cuts are the bulk of the motorsport catalogue - 13 polo and 13 crew-neck styles among the 40 motorsport designs - so most of what is on offer can take a stitched mark.
Where embroidery does not go is on light, close-fitting areas where a stitched block would stiffen the fabric or pull it out of shape. If your crest is destined for a style where stitching is the wrong answer, the mark is switched to print and you are told which process is being used and why.
How does an embroidered crest compare with heat-pressed printing?
They are different products rather than two prices for the same thing:
- Embroidery is stitched thread. It has physical relief, does not crack or peel, and reads as a badge rather than a print. It suits solid shapes, lettering and borders.
- Heat press is cut material bonded under heat. It holds fine detail, gradients and very small type that a needle cannot resolve, and it is the process behind the $2 per piece name and number printing.
The rule of thumb: geometric marks, lettering and borders go embroidered; multi-colour or finely detailed artwork gets printed. Both can appear on the same garment, and often do.
How is an embroidered crest priced?
Per piece, quoted from your artwork. There is no crest price list, because the work depends on the file: the number of stitch colours, the density of the shape, the size of the mark and its placement all change the stitching time. The same file at 4 cm and at 12 cm is two different jobs.
That figure is separate from the base garment price and separate from the $2 name and number charge. Ask for the crest number on its own so you can see what each decoration costs, rather than accepting one blended per-piece figure you cannot audit. Send the file to +86 181 7757 2115.
What in an artwork file decides whether embroidery works?
Detail size, colour count and edges. Stitching needs roughly a millimetre of room between elements; below that, shapes merge into a blob. Thin outline text, fine hatching and soft shadows are the usual failures, and they fail visibly on a garment rather than on a screen.
So the practical advice is the same as for any decoration job: send the AI, SVG or EPS vector, or a high-resolution transparent PNG, rather than a screenshot. A vector file can be simplified intelligently; a screenshot can only be guessed at, and guesses show up as stitched approximations.
Can a crest be added to a mixed team order?
Yes, and it does not disturb the pricing structure. MOQ is 10 pieces per design, so a club ordering ten embroidered polos and ten plain crew necks is inside MOQ on both, and the whole order is quoted together with the tier driven by total volume - $10, $9 and $8 per piece for short-sleeve, $16, $15 and $14 for long versions.
Teams, styles, seasons and sizes all mix freely inside one order. Send the design list, the quantity per design, and the crest file to +86 181 7757 2115 and the Proforma Invoice comes back with garments, crest work and freight on separate lines, valid for 14 days.