Embroidery of polos, hats, hoodies & more
Embroidered apparel is one of the best ways to decorate your garments. Embroidery works well on polos, hats and heavier garments and also clothing that is difficult to print on. Corporate, sports or workwear polos look great with logos and text embroidered small on the left or right chest. Good embroidery will outlast the life of the garment.
Bulk Clothing Embroidery in Auckland & Thames
Embroidery can be an expensive and timely process for low numbers of garments. Currently, we work to minimum orders of 10 -20 of the same size embroidery but have the capacity to print much more. We regularly embroider bigger orders in the hundreds and occasionally thousands to deliver the finest custom embroidered clothing.
Based in Kingsland, Auckland and Thames, we regularly supply within our local regions but also nationwide.
Simple to complex multi colour embroidery
From simple logos and text to multi-colour and more complex embroidery and t-shirt printing your experts have you covered. Size and complexity does matter though - see our FAQ below for more info.
Enhance Your Brand's Colours with Screen Printing and Embroidery
We're colour experts, so we can embroider a number of thread colours. Unlike screen printing, though embroidery is limited in the thread colours available, we will always find the best colour match to really make your brand shine.
Band & event merchandise
We regularly design and embroider band merchandise for some of your favourite NZ musicians, plus merchandise and staff apparel for some very well-known NZ events. Some names we have worked with are:
- Shihad
- Shapeshifter
- Brooke Fraser
- Kora
- Villainy
- Benee
- House of Shem
- Blindspott
- David Dallas
- Dawn Raid
- Northern Bass
- Raggamuffin and many more.
Make your team look great
Whether your team is your staff, your sports team or your followers, we're here to help you look your best, in your field, on the field, or anywhere your brand is being worn.
Hi Vis Safety Clothing
With increasing safety regulations for many trades and events, we can supply a huge range of high visibility safety apparel to ensure you remain seen and safe. We offer vests, tees, polos, singlets, overalls, and more. Add your logo for that extra pop.
Recent Embroidery
What our clients say...
"We have used UPPER Apparel for a few merchandise projects including our flagship event Northern Bass. Paul and the team are easy to deal with, fast and very price competitive. We will continue to use their services and highly recommend to others."
Gareth Popham, Director, Fuzen Entertainment / Northern Bass
"Great experience with the Upper Apparel team. We got a variety of garments printed and the work is top quality. Highly recommend."
Katie Jackson, Wonkybox.co.nz
"The only place to get top quality merch an service is second to none."
Heath Wynd, East West Music & Events
"Awesome apparel, great to deal with, well priced and quick turnaround."
Brad Saunders, BG Homes Tauranga
"I have enlisted UPPER Apparel services on a few occasions for my not-for-profit charitable businesses. Paul was always incredibly helpful and went that extra mile to ensure we got exactly what we wanted in terms of colour and sizing. The turn around was also super speedy, communication was always timely, and we always got high quality products as a result. Will definitely continue to use UPPER Apparel in the future."
Cat Ruka, Director, Basement Theatre
"Highly Recommended. Have been using UPPER Apparel for the last 4 years and have never been disappointed. Very professional and quality workmanship."
Louis Pasley, Hi Tech Tiling
Our embroidery is priced per logo embroidered and per stitch. With a minimum of 10. We have price breaks at 20, 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000 for embroidery. The more embroidered logos we do the more you economical it is for you. The embroidery must be the same size for this to be the case.
For example: You may run the same embroidery across different garments - polos, hoods, caps etc and even different coloured garments but as long as the embroidery is the same you will be eligible for price breaks.
With embroidery we can change out the thread colour on the whole logo or certain parts of it at no extra cost to suit the colour of the garment it is going on.
We do need to see your logo for pricing embroidery so when you request a quote we will ask for this so we can give you accurate pricing.
You can embroider many areas of garments but not all. Sometimes there are restrictions with pockets or inner layers of certain garments.
The area we embroider must be able to fit on to our frames.
Our usual placements for embroidery are left or right chest, back neck and sleeves of short sleeved garments - or front, back and sides of headwear. Any placement idea that you have that is out of the ordinary we can definitely look at - just email us and we can discuss.
We have capacity within our network to embroider up to around 40cm wide and high. At this size there are many stitches involved so it does become a very costly process. Embroidery can look great at this size but be wary of the cost here.
Yes. We have a great team of designers and we also own and run a branding / graphic design agency KRISP Design so you can be sure you are in good hands whether you just need a design for your company apparel, sports team or a full branding package.
Due to the amount of work that is involved in embroidery we prefer to work with a minimum of 10 of the same embroidery. We can go less if it is with other items in an order or if it is a repeat order.
For smaller orders of 1-2 garments we will usually refer you to someone that can help.
Due to the amount of work that is involved in embroidery we prefer to work with a minimum of 10 of the same embroidery. We can go less if it is with other items in an order or if it is a repeat order.
For smaller orders of 1-2 garments we will usually refer you to someone that can help.
Our standard turnaround time for embroidery orders is 5-10 working days. This can increase in busier times of the year but we will always give you an ETA in advance.
If you have a specific date that you need your apparel embroidered by please let us know so we can work to your deadline.
We work as what we would call an Apparel Brokerage. We don't embroider our garments on site at our offices in Auckland or Thames but we do have preferred embroidery partners, who we have worked with for over 20 years. We have a few different embroidery partners so have plenty of capacity to get your orders completed quickly.
With low overheads and long time supply agreements this means we are able to offer you very competitive rates on your embroidered apparel while also being able to offer a wide range of other services such as Screen Printing, DTG Digital Printing, Sports Numbering and Digital Transfers, Design, Apparel Supply and more through one point of contact. All your apparel design and decoration needs covered without the need for you to talk to different specialist suppliers.
Yes we can often deliver locally if you are close enough to us. We can also offer overnight courier delivery nationwide once your order is complete.
Please supply all artwork as vector images with text converted to paths / outlines. Accepted files are: .ai / .eps / .pdf. We can also accept high resolution .jpg or .png files for embroidery.
This gives us the base for the cleanest, embroidery possible.
Should you only have a jpeg file of your logo we can often vectorise / recreate your logo for you at a small cost and supply this back to you once we have used it for embroidery.
Generally we believe embroidery on garments like polos, caps, beanies, collared shirts and polyester garments is the best application for quantities above 10 units. There are of course a number of reasons as to why or why not embroidery is the best application for your garments so we often need to see your design and know what apparel it will be going on so we can make a recommendation from there. If we can't embroider for any reason we have a number of other great application methods.
Quality. We pride ourselves on providing quality apparel and quality workmanship in decoration of those garments.
Competitive pricing. We are not the cheapest out there but we are very competitive compared to many others with higher overheads. Good quality doesn't come cheap but doesn't have to cost the earth.
If something is not quite right, we will make it right. Too many times businesses we have dealt with are not willing to fix things that are not right.
A partner in the success of your Band, brand, business or team. Looking your best in quality apparel can make a huge difference to how the world perceives you and how you and your team perceive yourselves. That all leads to better outcomes. Let's grow toegther!
We rarely have to deal with this but when we do we'll bend over backwards to get this up to our standards and yours. Often if these issues arise, which they do from time to time, we'll catch it and remedy it before your order gets to you but in the case that we don't, please let us know and we will fix it.
Yes, we have a wide range of garment suppliers and in most cases we are able to supply them to you at better rate than you would get if you purchased them direct.
Some of our suppliers:
AS Colour
Cloke
Gildan
JB's Wear
Biz Collection
Aussie Pacific
Headwear Professionals
Adidas
Flexfit
Bocini
Syzmik
Hard Yakka
King Gee
Urban Collab
American Apparel
Alstyle Apparel
Yes you can supply your own but generally we can give you a much better rate on these than you would get if you purchased them yourself.
We do need to check apparel that you supply to us to make sure it is safe for us to embroider. Apparel needs to fit on the machines in the place you want embroidered . We'll always let you know before we start if this is likely to be a problem.