In this post, I am going to show you the difference between woven patches and embroidered patches.

What’s the difference between woven and embroidered patches? Are you having a hard time choosing between woven vs embroidered patch?

Most of our customers will ask this question before they place an order. Both of them are the most common type of patches. They can be made into any shape, including round, square, rectangular, and any shape you need with your ideas. Let’s dive right in.

What is a Woven Patches?

Woven Patches use thinner threads than embroidered patches. Woven patches are made of thread only, and stitched with continuous design to achieve finer detail in the design and text of the patch.

Tips: Woven patches have a smooth surface with no raised texture due to the patch is woven. Woven Patches size can reach up to 7”.

We recommend woven patches If you need to put much information and detail on the patches. Also, For patches with complex edges such as waves, we recommend simple laser cutting (die cutting) rather than embroidering the edges.

How to make woven patches?

The woven patch is introduced from the top of the fabric backing that is continuously intricately sutured.

These threads are tightly woven together to create a seamless image or logo. This video will tell you how to make woven patches!

What is the Advantage of Woven Patches?

1:Price lower than Embroidered Patches

2: All woven patches have 100% coverage

3: Have the ability to clean and smaller lettering

Click advantage and disadvantage of woven patches to know more ! Briefly speaking, woven patches are the best suited for those looking for detailed and high -resolution patches.

Embroidered Patches

Embroidered patches thread thicker than woven patches. It’s may seem messy If you want a patch containing too much information and details. Embroidery patches applicable to security personnel, military units, fire departments, law enforcement agencies.

Tips: The types of embroidered patches we offer are 50% embroidery, 75% embroidery, and 100% embroidery. 

Embroidered Patches price is different from the percentage covered on the fabric. It can be done with an iron backing, which saves sewing time. that’s why customer choose custom embroidered patches.

How to make custom embroidered patches?

The best custom embroidered patches is very suitable for simple designs with bold letters, or thicker strings can produce a striking effect on yourself. We provide a complete video to let you know more clearly how to make embroidered patches.

What is the Advantage of Embroidered Patches?

1:Embroidered Patches looks classic.

2:Can be done with iron on backing

3:Different tapes of custom patches for choice.

In a word, custom embroidered patches no minimum are suitable for those who want their patches to look classic. At GS-JJ.com, we are always giving you all the best. Our Custom Patches System can help you create the perfect custom made patches for your needs. To find out more, call us toll-free at 18888644755 or email us info@gs-jj.com.

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When making the Custom Pins with Enamel Paints, the most common question is what’s the difference between soft vs. hard enamel pins (the two most popular styles).

In case you are a video lover, watch the video to get a quick answer.

Video Version of Soft Enamel VS. Hard Enamel Pins

For more introduction, please read on…

Quick Visual Distinction

Let’s get a quick understanding of Soft Enamel VS. Hard Enamel Pins, just judging from the surface:

The simple answer is soft enamel has raised metal lines & recessed enamel, a textured and non-smooth surface.

The answer for hard enamel is a polished flat of metal and enamel, a non-textured and smooth surface.

If you have these two types of pins at hand, try to compare and observe them from the front view, and the side view, and feel the difference in the surface with your fingers.  You must have got the answer when you read here.

Want to deeply understand the differences? Please dive on.

In-depth Understanding

1. What are Enamel Pins?

➤ What are Soft Enamel Pins?

Although its name says otherwise, soft enamel pins are not soft to the touch. Soft enamel pins are a kind of enamel pins, it is also called die-struck pins. Based on stamped metal or die-struck metal, it can be electroplated with various metal colors, bright gold, bright silver, etc.

The debossed metal areas between metal edges are filled with various colored enamel paints which are laid below the metal edges. 

Each color is surrounded by metal edges. Its surface has an obvious sense of concavo-convex. You can feel the obvious roughness with your fingers. Its dimensional look is what makes so many people drawn to it.

➤ What are the Hard Enamel Pins? 

Hard enamel pins are also called imitation Cloisonné pins, a kind of enamel pins. It is equivalent to the upgraded version of soft enamel.

The entire inside debossed metal areas are filled with various colored enamel paints to the same even level of the metal edges.

And the surface is repeatedly polished. Its surface has no obvious sense of concavo-convex, and we can feel a slightly bumpy feeling while it has a similar texture to ceramics. The smooth surface makes it look more exquisite.

2. How Much Do Enamel Pins Cost?

➤ Soft Enamel Pins--Most Popular Style

The great-looking soft enamel pins with medium quality and charming texture are highly cost-effective and can be used for a versatile selection of shapes and sizes.

It is suitable for making all kinds of mid-range lapel pins. 

Price as low as $0.35/PC. Check the price list of soft enamel pins

➤ Hard Enamel Pins--High Perceived Value

The high-quality hard enamel pins belong to the top-grade lapel pins. The smooth and exquisite surface gives people a luxurious feeling.

The price is a bit higher than the soft enamel. It applies to the company lapel pins and commemorative lapel pins.

The price is as low as $0.55/PC. Check the price list of hard enamel pins

3. How are Enamel Pins Made?

➤ Different Manufacturing Processes

Both use the same metal mold and will have vivid colors. The mold of soft enamel can only be used for producing soft enamel pins, while the mold of hard enamel is not only able to be used for the hard enamel process but also for the soft enamel process.

Let’s learn more about the difference in manufacturing processes.

          How to Make Soft Enamel Pins          VS.          How to Make Hard Enamel Pins

The Manufacturing Flow Soft Enamel Pins VS. Hard Enamel Pins

➤ Different Surface of Finished Enamel Pins

Soft Enamel Pins are concave-convex, a metal line, or a metal surface is raised

Hard Enamel Pins are filled with enamel paints to be flush and even level with the metal edges and polished to a smooth-to-the-touch surface.

Notice: We can add a transparent epoxy resin coating to the surface of soft enamel pins to protect the surface and give the effect that the soft enamel is smooth(lose the sense of concave and convex).

Distinguish Skill: Because of the refraction of light, the surface with an added epoxy resin coating will be bright with a sense of reflection. But the “flat one” is not the hard enamel one.

4. Durability: Soft VS. Hard Enamel Pins

After getting the finished product, let’s see who is more durable.

Under the same preservation method and conditions, hard enamel pins are more durable than soft enamel pins.

Hard Enamel Pins are preferred by those who want the more durable enamel pins. It has super high quality and resistance from scratching.

In terms of drafting and design, the enamel pin manufacturer does the same colors, details, and visual effects on either. The difference is how the end products feel and how shadowing or reflection alters the appearance of the finished pins.

You can choose one or the other based on aesthetic preference as some craft works better than others with either the manufacturing process.

At GS-JJ.com, we offer both soft and hard custom enamel pins for the lowest factory price. Ultimately, the custom pins come down to your personal preference. You could pick the appearance and process that work best for your design. 

If you are still unsure, contact us and let us know. As an enamel pin maker with 20 years of professional experience, GS-JJ can help you pick out the most suitable and best-looking one for your design.

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Maybe you are interested in how to make enamel pins

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Step 1: Design the Sticker

Making your own stickers means you can be creative with your designs. Use tools you want to use, such as crayons, markers, pastels, etc., to create a sticker pattern on a thin piece of paper. A loose-leaf paper or notebook paper is available. When thinking about stickers, consider the following creative options:

Draw a self-portrait or a portrait of a friend or pet.

Cut out your favorite pictures and words from magazines and newspapers.

You can find your favorite cartoon characters or scenery photos on the Internet and save them to your computer, and then print them out.

For best results, print them on thin printer paper instead of photo paper.

Step 2: Cut Out the Sticker You Designed.

Use scissors or a punch to cut out pictures you have drawn or printed. You can choose the size of the sticker to suit your preferences.

Step 3: Make Glue.

Glue is the adhesive that attaches stickers to most surfaces. So, glue is the most important factor in determining whether your sticker will be successful or not.

Pour the following ingredients into a bowl and mix well:

One pack of gelled gelatin (equivalent to 7.2 g or 1 tablespoon)

Four tablespoons boiling water

One teaspoon sugar or corn syrup

A few drops of peppermint or vanilla extract (for flavor)

Step 4: Apply the Glue to the Sticker.

Put the front side of the sticker upside down on wax paper or aluminum foil. Use a paintbrush or small brush to lightly apply glue to the back of the sticker. After all steps are completed, let the glue dry completely.

It is important to note that you do not need to dip the entire sticker in the adhesive, just apply a light layer of glue and the sticker must be completely air-dried before use.

Step 5: The Last Step is to Lick the Sticker (or put spit on the back of the sticker).

When you’re ready to stick the sticker somewhere, just lick it like a postage stamp and press it down on the surface for a moment. Homemade glue is very sticky, and homemade stickers are easy to break, so you should stick them where you want to stick them all at once. Your high-quality custom stickers are ready to use.

Ways to Make Your Own Stickers Updated.

Last time we introduced homemade glue stickers. Today we will introduce how to make self-adhesive stickers. Last time the most important thing for our glue stickers was glue. The most important thing for making stickers today is to choose the materials. This time our sticker has requirements for sticker materials, and what we need is self-adhesive paper. Self-adhesive stickers do not need as many materials as glue stickers, but the quality is better than glue stickers. Compared with glue stickers, it can be slightly waterproof, with clear pattern printing and no fading.

How to make self-adhesive stickers

Buy Adhesive Paper

There are some papers with adhesive on the one side available in the market. When you want to paste paper, you can tear off the backing paper on the adhesive paper and apply it to somewhere you like.

Draw the Design of Your Stickers

Use Adobe Photoshop, Paint, or other Paint programs on your computer to create a sticker pattern. Anything you want can be designed into patterns. You want your family photos on the stickers, that’s ok; you want to hand draw the design, that’s cool.

And then you can send the design into your computer and print the pattern on the self-adhesive paper.

Pro tip:

If you decide to paint on a piece of self-adhesive paper by yourself, remember do not make the paper too wet, or you may find it is not easy to make the design visible on the adhesive paper.

Remove the Extra Part of Your Design with Scissors

If you want circle stickers, you can cut the design of your stickers into a circle. First, draw the simple circle shape around your pattern and then using scissors to trammel the extra paper.

If you want custom die cut stickers, you can also use scissors to cut into shapes.

Tear Off the Backing Paper.

Finally, you can use your stickers! It is exciting and rather easy. Just peel off the protective paper on the backside of the adhesive paper and then you can stick them wherever you see fit.

The above content is a very simple method of making your own stickers. Teachers and parents can learn this method to let children give full play to their creativity and imagination.

In addition to the two methods described above, the simplest method is to make stickers with box sealing tape.

How to make stickers with packing tape

Step One:

Cut out magazine prints or paint your own

In this method, you use patterns that have been printed with waterproof ink as templates.

You can use glossy magazine or book designs, and then use scissors to cut out the patterns and text you like. Note that you can use any design, the only limit is that the width of each sticker must match the width of the tape used to seal the box.

Step Two:  

Add tape to the sticker

The tape is used as adhesive here. Cover the entire sticker with a box sealing tape. Then press the tape onto the front side of stickers. It has to be a one-time thing because any rearrangement of the tape can cause damage to the sticker.

Pro tip: If the sticker pattern is too large for one piece of tape to completely cover it, you can use two. But when the sticker is finished, there will be visible seams where the two pieces of tape meet.

Step Three:

Rub the front of the sticker.

In order to further fuse the tape and the sticker, remember rubbing the front of the sticker with whether your hand or anything hard.

Step Four:

Rinse the sticker with warm water

Place the sticker under the tap with the paper facing the water and rinse one sticker at a time until the paper and tape are separated.

The purpose is to wash away the paper and leave the ink on the tape. The key is to wet the entire sticker.

Step Five:

Dry the sticker

After removing the paper, allow the sticker to dry thoroughly, allowing the adhesive to stick again. Then cut off the extra part of the sticker, and then stick the sticker to the surface of your choice.

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The fun of homemade stickers is to enjoy the process and the results. You can use homemade stickers as a family activity. But homemade stickers are different from store-bought stickers in that they are more likely to be damaged. If you want it just for fun you can choose homemade stickers, if there are other uses, you need to buy another form of high-quality custom stickers from the store. GS-JJ Company as a professional manufacturer of stickers, they have more than 20 years of experience in manufacturer stickers. So if you want to buy some cheap and high-quality stickers, you can browse GS-JJ.com. We have all kinds of stickers. Our contact information email address is info@GS-JJ.com and the number is 188-886-44755.

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