Shoe embroidery

[Denis Kolar]

I did my first embroidered shoe last night.
Need to play with setting a bit more but it looks promising.

[Fresh Baked Printing]

Nice detail on the small text. Can you post a wide shot of the shoe to see the stitch in context? Would be cool to post a vid of the operation.

[Denis Kolar]

Will do

[Denis Kolar]

The only bad thing that embroidery it is limited to 2.25x1.125" area

[Denis Kolar]

Here is the pic of the final sew. I'm having some issues with video uploading to YouTube, I will link that when I get it uploaded.

[Fresh Baked Printing]

So many questions:
Can be done on leather or canvas?
Material thickness restrictions?
Can it only be done on that particular shoe location?
Shoe size (not design size) limitations?
High and low tops?
Are mis-sews a problem? Can they be re-stitched or does it scrap the shoe?
What do you estimate the biggest stitch count to be possible?
Multi-color design no problem?
Could you do the shoe tongue?

I have more questions but I'll get back to 'em.

[Denis Kolar]

Slow down 

Which machine do you have?
You can embroider on almost anything you could clamp into the machine (I was told that the toughest thing to embroider is a Karate belt).
Shoes would not be an issue.
Multiple colors, yes.  Did I do it, No.
How many stitches, I do not know how much you can cram into 2x1 area?
Shoe size, as long you can clamp it
Miss-sew, I had to use Peggy's stitch eraser last night
Shoe tongue, Yes.
Material thickness, I still have to mess with my clamp, I need to bring it as down as possible to the sewing arm. Thickness should not be an issue. I had issues with this shoe when it would go from one material to a different one, you can see that it goes from suede to that puffy fabric.

Clamp is a home made

[Denis Kolar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqpJCSJNUt0

Video

[jolanda]

Hello ,

I also have a tajima machine  I have bought a yellow  shoe clamp but  I have many problems with embroidery on a shoe ...I have lots of thread breaks and it looks like he can not catch bobbin thread ..  what clamp do you use ....can you please give me some advice


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Sorry for my bad english
I'm from netherland

Greetings Jolanda

[Denis Kolar]

Bad English? It is better than mine
I use the clamp that I built myself and it needs a few more tweaks

You are having thread breaks because the shoe is further away from the "arm" than other things we embroider.
I have to figure out how to fix that.

[3Deep]

Thats pretty neat wouldn't mine trying that someday... very nice DK!

[jolanda]

I thought something like that ...it's the clamp that is to thick 
I need to find someone who can make another clamp ...I don't understand why Tajima still not have make his own clamp
did you see the clamp for zsk embriodery ? that's a beautifull clamp
I wish I had such clamp... I hope you can fix your clamp so maybe I can buy it from you ..lol

Industrial Embroidery Machine - ZSK Boot Framing Device

Greetings Jolanda