The factory will create a custom hard sample for you to review before full production begins. If we have an approval, they schedule the full run, but if we need changes, we can request them and get a new sample.

Most patches take about a month from proof approval to shipment.

If you have a rush order, please email us and we will find out if it is doable for you. If we bypass a hard sample, it can knock off a solid week and woven patches can be rushed the easiest.

We will email you back confirming all details work as intended and then get the order submitted to the factory.  After about a week, they will send us a picture of a hard sample patch to review.  If you approve, we can schedule the full production, or we can make changes.  Woven take a little longer to see the samples due to the process (closer to 10 days).

We use an iron on backing by default, but if you'd like velcro, sew on, sticker, please let us know.  Velcro adds +$0.15 per patch.

Our patches are made in China, as almost all patches are (there are some factories who claim to produce them in the US, but it’s false advertising- they have a US based team just like us, but hide the fact that they make the actual products in China.)

Many people think that Chinese factories are “sweatshops” or that they employ child labor or other unethical practices, but that couldn’t be further from the truth- Chinese manufacturing is a sophisticated, high tech industry that involves competitive local wages and teams of skilled engineers and artisans. It is akin to - or in many cases more advanced than - manufacturing processes and facilities in the US.

Our owner has personally visited our pin factory, met the owner and even tried his hand at fabrication! Most of our other products also come from Chinese partners, except for stickers and wooden products which are made in the USA.

We are making hand made products and things can go wrong.  Any order made wrong or with issues can be either re-made or refunded with the bad product returned.  We never want this to happen, but when it does, we have your back and it won't cost you anything.

Patches do not require a mold like a pin does, so a reprint order will be the same cost as it's original order.

We can always get an exact quote for you and when you have a lot of patches being made at the same time, they will benefit from shared shipping that will bring down your total cost.

We are happy to get quotes for any order directly from the factory. The pricing on this site has to assume it ships on it's own, but like any shipping, when you have more shipped together, it averages down per piece.

If you have variants, please email us for an exact quote.  They will cost more because it's creating more labor and machine time by splitting up the production.  It's not as much as doing separate patch orders, but it can add +$0.20 per or more to the price.  It all depends on the split and complexity.

Yes! We can make any size, quantity or more colors (up to 12) for an additional cost.

Patches come packaged together in a larger pack, but are not individually packed. If you need each in it's own flap seal bag, we can do that for an added cost.

You can also opt to have your patches packaged on custom card backers, which are then slipped into cello bags (either regular, or “retail ready” with a hang tab on top.) This can be a great time-saver and is surprisingly affordable!

We have a close relationship with our factories and they have a lot more to lose than gain by using anybody’s designs for their own purposes- at our request they don’t even show our designs in their portfolio. Sadly, most times when a design is stolen, it’s actually done by stealing an image online and tracing it, so we can’t promise your design will never get copied, but we can promise our factory won’t be the ones doing it.

A merrowed edge is a raised border that can work on simple shapes like a circle, rectangle, square, triangle, etc.  This does not work on complex shapes.

If your art is too detailed for a 100% embroidered patch, but that's what you want, we'd need to reduce the details down to fit the medium.

Another option is to make them with a photo transfer style (looks similar to woven) and keep all of the details we need.

It's not perfect math, but typically, if you 2x the size of a pin, it should work in an acceptable way as a patch.  If your pin is 1.5", the patch probably needs to be around 3".