Geneva Health Forum 2018 embroidery

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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 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

tutorials

. 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.