Creating world-leading embroidery solutions since 1979
In 1979 Wilcom's founders shared a vision for automating the embroidery industry that has changed the way people create and produce embroidered goods.
- Embroidery solutions for:
- Embroidery Digitizing Software
- Machine Connection
- Sales & Business Tools
- Embroidery Automation
- Hobby
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Embroidery Digitizing Software
EmbroideryStudio
Embroidery design tools that enhance productivity and deliver stunning, creative results.
EmbroideryStudio comes in four levels:
The ultimate embroidery & multi-decoration software for professional digitizers, embroidery shops, industry trainers and educators, and apparel decorators.
Professional embroidery & multi-decoration software for custom embroidery shops and apparel decorators expanding into embroidery.
Editing, monogramming, lettering and machine connection software for non-digitizing staff in a custom embroidery shop or production facility.
Automatic lettering, customizing and machine connection software for non-digitizing staff in a retail embroidery shop or production facility.
Coming from a non-embroidery background and getting Wilcom EmbroideryStudio Designing some 5 years back now has been the best business decision I've ever made. I love the add-on Elements such as Reef PhotoStitch.
Frank Dunn | Sew Stitch Designs | United Kingdom
Embroidery Machine Connection
Reduce costly production errors and expensive wear-and-tear on your embroidery machine by switching to wireless transfer of your embroidery designs with EmbroideryConnect. Connect your barcode scanner directly to your EmbroideryConnect device and pull designs from the all-new EmbroideryHub Queue.
EmbroideryStudio Add-ons
Take your embroidery further. Choose from a range of carefully crafted add-on features for EmbroideryStudio designed to widen creativity, boost efficiency and expand your business opportunities.
Sales and business tools
Designed as embroidery software for everyone, WilcomWorkspace offers convenient and affordable on-demand, multi-platform embroidery web applications.
You can view, resize, recolor, print worksheets and export designs, or even create an accurate stitch estimate with just a few clicks.
Available on PC, MAC and tablet devices.
WilcomWorkspace has two web applications
Take the guess work out of stitch estimating. Create instant embroidery stitch estimates for more accurate quoting or production scheduling.
Embroidery automation
The Embroidery Web API is Wilcom's embroidery automation software tool kit that enables embroidery and apparel companies to add embroidery capabilities to their custom web sites, web applications, and internal business systems.
Hobby embroidery software
Create beautiful embroidery projects for your home embroidery machine.
Compatible with all major embroidery machine brands including
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Wilcom Today
Presence in over
100 countries
Products in over
12 languages
250,000+ users
worldwide
Our Growth
Continual product innovation
New product
development
A passion for
embroidery
1979
Wilcom is founded
Wilcom's founders shared a vision for automating the embroidery industry that has changed the way people create and produce embroidered goods.
1980
Wilcom's first system is sold
Wilcom's first embroidery system was sold to Lion Bros for a bargain price of $120,000. At the time is was predicted only ten embroidery design systems will be needed to meet the global demand of embroidery designs.
1983
First desktop design system
The Wilcom CED was the world's first desktop embroidery design system that pioneered the way for PC-based embroidery digitizing.
1985
The Stitch Process is invented
Wilcom's patent stitch process revolutionized the industry. For the first time a digitizer could resize an embroidery design without having to redigitize the entire design again.
1991
Introducing Wilcom ES
Wilcom ES, the second generation of Wilcom digitizing software, is released. While DOS based, the Wilcom engineers had the forsight to design a Windows-like graphical user interface before Windows even existed.
1996
The all-in-one .EMB
The release of Wilcom's Sirus generation software introduced the all-in-one object-based Wilcom .EMB file that allowed, for the first time, an embroidery designer to store their objects, stitches and artwork in a single editable file. A game changer!
2008
Our Corel partnership begins
DecoStudio was the first Wilcom product release to include our industry-changing integration of CorelDRAW and began out long and close strategic relationship with Corel.
2016
Hatch Embroidery is released
Hatch Embroidery version 1 was released in 2016 and quickly became the number one choice for home-hobby embroiderers. Today Hatch is used in hudreds of countries and has sparked a new generation of passionate embroiderers.
2019
Wilcom-Dahao Partnership
Wilcom formed a strategic partnership with Dahao, the world's number one manufacturer of embroidery controllers that power hudreds of embroidery machine brands around the world.
2020
EmbroideryConnect
Wilcom's WiFi-powered EmbroideryConnect is released allowing users to seamlessly send designs from EmbroideryStudio to any USB-powered embroidery machine wireslessly.
2021
WilcomWorkspace
Wilcom releases WilcomWorkspace, an online suite of embroidery tools to help production, customer service and sales teams view, resize, recolor and generate accurate stitch estimates for embroidery designs.
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