Geneva Health Forum 2018 embroidery
Introduction
Machine embroidery supports communication (advertising, messages, strong ideas) and identity processes.
At the Geneva Health Forum 2018, TECFA organized a machine embroidery activity, a form of computer-aided design and manufacturing.
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Activity
Initial design
The participants made a drawing with big markers, or sent a drawing or an image by email.
Digital Design
- The handmade drawings were scanned
- The images have been reduced in color and then vectorized
- The vectorized (cleaned) images have been translated into customizable embroidery objects
Manufacturing
- Embroidery objects (set) have been exported in machine format (* .jef for Elna / Janome)
- The structured fabric used was Gunold's STEP.
All of this is explained in various
. In particular Embroidery patch and Stitch Era - creating embroidery patches.
Souvenirs
In two days we had the opportunity to see several interesting stitched embroidery designs. We can distinguish 5 kinds:
- Militant messages
- Identity drawings
- Existing digitized logos
- Sketches for new logos
- Drawings without specific objectives
The creation of such an embroidery takes between 30 minutes and 50 minutes. For example:
- 10 minutes for drawing and explanations
- 10 minutes for scanning, vectorizing and creating embroidery objects
- 0 to 10 minutes for adjusting the embroidery objects
- 12 to 20 minutes for the stitching with the Elna 8300, a small embroidery machine.
Choice of designs
We selected the following designs, shown as visualization of the machine readable embroidery files.
Some pictures
GHF 2018 embroidery
GHF 2018 embroidery
GHF 2018 embroidery
GHF 2018 embroidery
