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

Drawing form given to participants

Initial design'

The participants made a drawing with big markers, or sent a drawing or an image

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 the

Machine Embroidery Tutorials

. In particular, embroidering crests is described in Stitch Era - Creating Clothing Patches.

Souvenirs

In two days we had the opportunity to see several interesting embroidery. We can distinguish 5 kinds:

• Militant messages
• Identity drawings
• Existing digitized logos
• Sketches of logos
• Drawings without specific objectives

The creation of such embroidery takes between 30 minutes and 50 minutes. For example:

• 10 minutes for drawing and explanations
• 10 minutes to scan a drawing (vectorize and create embroidery objects)
• 0 to 10 minutes to adjust the embroidery objects
• 12 to 20 minutes to embroider

Choice of designs

Some pictures

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