Elements
Photo Flash Element for a commercial logo
Blog | Elements | Tips & Tutorials
A Step-by-Step Let’s use the unique stitch type produced by Wilcom’s Photo Flash add-on Element to create something amazing. Photo Flash is traditionally used to quickly transform and...
Stipple stitch for an artistic effect
Blog | Elements
With origins in quilting, stippling is used to fill large open areas on quilts and help hold down the inner foam. Tighter stippling flattens the quilt background and highlights the unquilted areas for an...
Split the difference with custom splits
Blog | Elements | EmbroideryStudio
Custom Splits is a feature used by professional digitizers to create exciting designs with texture and detail while still optimizing designs for efficient machine run time. Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio...
Traditional Chenille embroidery
Blog | Elements | EmbroideryStudio
Traditional chenille embroidery is made with a single, continuous yarn worked into the material and raised in a loop or pile. Commonly recognized by loops of yarn, chenille provides a soft fuzzy carpet-like...
Beading
Blog | Elements | EmbroideryStudio
EmbroideryStudio e4.5 Designing now supports Beading devices using the much-anticipated new Beading add-on Element. Never have there been so many beading decorative options and variations possible. Create detailed...
Raised Satin
Blog | Elements | EmbroideryStudio
EmbroideryStudio Designing is packed with hundreds of features to facilitate and speed up the digitizing process. The Wilcom design team was tasked with creating a quick and impressive embroidery design....
June Giveaway
Blog | Elements | EmbroideryStudio
Experience Wilcom’s amazing creative stitch types with our FREE weekly giveaway.This embroidery design is courtesy of DavidSharp.co.uk Wilcom has given away ONE FREE embroidery design each week in...
Faux Chenille
Blog | Elements | EmbroideryStudio
David Sharp, a Wilcom UK customer, has used one of the numerous creative stitches in Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio e4.5 Designing to create the look and feel of Chenille without the need for...
String Stitch Daisy Flower
Blog | Elements | EmbroideryStudio
At Wilcom, we’ve been showcasing our creative stitch types with different applications. Today we showcase the String Stitch Element. It creates decorative ‘string art’ stitch effects,...
Texture with String Stitch
Blog | Elements | EmbroideryStudio
Now is the time to experiment with textural stitch type. See what you can create with this uniquely traditional Indian stitch, called Paghadi Stitch. The series of overlapping ‘curved...
Layer with Reef Photo Stitch
Blog | Elements | EmbroideryStudio
Bring a logo or digitizing to life with layers of tonal thread colors. To produce this unique design, we use an image rather than a photo. We incorporate layers of varying shades, and the end result is...
Cutout Embroidery
Blog | Elements
Leaving a negative area in your embroidery design not only saves lots of stitches, the process could be the simplest embroidery exercise you will ever complete. In fact, there is absolutely no digitizing...