Embroidery is Taking Over

Most people know embroidery as the art of stitching expertly crafted designs onto clothing, but how well do you know its other applications? Leaders in various fields like interior design, transportation, and even engineering have all started using embroidery to increase quality and brand awareness. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular examples in these fields.

Interior Design

In home staging and decoration, embroidery lets designers stitch intricate and beautiful designs right into pillows, curtains, towels, upholstery, and so much more. Some home designers have even started to incorporate high quality designs into framed art around homes, such as this one recreating the Creation of Adam.

In home decoration and staging, companies will often leave their name embroidered into the products they use to stage the area for selling. These designs are typically crafted by skilled digitizers, often featuring intricate details that showcase their expertise in .

Transportation

Embroidery has become a staple in many luxury cars to show off the high level of craftsmanship that went into their design and construction. It has become common for high-end car manufacturers and aftermarket specialists to use specialty embroidery machines, such as the PAX by Tajima to add sewing, embroidery, and perforation on various materials. Special software is also needed, such as Tajima’s DG-S or the perforation option for DG. This machine is often used on seats, headrests, and floor mats to add a custom monogram, intricate design, or brand logo to the car.

Embroidery is also being used in almost every other mode of transportation to create an upscale experience. In aviation, private jets and commercial airlines integrate embroidered logos and patterns into seat covers and headrests. Similarly, luxury train services and buses have started incorporating embroidered upholstery.

Engineering

Embroidery is also often used by engineers for inventions such as heated threads and carbon fiber-reinforced plastics. Heated threads can be stitched into household appliances, semiconductors, plumbing, apparel and many other materials to act as a lightweight heating element. Carbon fibre is even being stitched into products to greatly reinforce their structure, often to technologies that need to be lightweight, such as drones, boats, and camping gear.

If embroidery is already being used to improve so many different fields, we can imagine how many applications it will have in five to ten years from now!