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[brewerpaul]

This thread might answer a question I have been wondering about, which is where do you order nice embroidered tags with your name to sew into the kilts you have made?

Tess I think Bonnie Heather Greene has just acquired some labels for sewing in to her kilts. It may be worth giving her a PM.

Agreed, Bonnie did recently start using her own embroidered tags so she is worth contacting. Now back to the subject matter at hand......

[Tartan Tess]

Have you seen the "Designed in Scotland" tags?

[JohntheBiker]

This thread might answer a question I have been wondering about, which is where do you order nice embroidered tags with your name to sew into the kilts you have made?

A google search of clothing label makers will get you a choice of folks who will do limited runs of custom labels. No recommendations, unfortunately. I the only one's that I have dealt with were large run manufacturers.

[Barb T]

I, too, am really proud of the kilts I make, and I sew my maker's label (shown in Tobus' post) into all the kilts I make. I DO like Paul Henry's leather ones, though!!

I ordered the labels custom woven over 15 years ago when I was just starting to make custom-made kilts. I remember vividly how expensive they were in comparison to the "$5-for-100" printed labels on a roll that you used to be able to order at sewing shops. I was debating which to buy and agonizing about the cost. My husband just looked at me incredulously and said, you mean you'd even consider putting a 5-cent label in a $600 custom-made kilt?? I ordered the custom woven ones......and have never regretted it.

BTW - cost is still about the same as it was back then - couple hundred $$ for 1000 labels.

[sydnie7]

Since this thread is still rolling. . .

Originally I just PM'd Tartan Tess with a recommendation of where not to purchase labels, but the story itself is worth a chuckle. When I starting making "Flamingo Kilts," I ordered woven nametags from an online source. Their website contained dire warnings that labels would be produced exactly as typed into the order form, so I carefully proofread everything before submission.

The labels arrived. . . as FlamingoKnits.

I called to explain that my flamingo, having only three toes, found knitting too difficult and therefore chose to make kilts. (OK, I was a bit hotter than that LOL). I asked how my carefully typed-in company name had morphed. The company representative had no answer to that question, but her response was classic:

"But the labels normally take 6-8 weeks to produce, and we got them to you in just 4 weeks!" She seemed quite put-out that I didn't appreciate the speedy delivery of labels with the wrong company name!

We worked out a re-order and, you guessed it, those came out wrong as well (IIRC it was now "Kiltz" with a zed rather than an "s"). On my third try, I finally got FlamingoKilts.com labels which went into each of the kilts I produced. I also sewed in a care instruction tag, BTW, and produced a "care and feeding" card that went along with all the kilt hose cuffs.

Nice labels shown above, folks! If anybody wants to start a company called FlamingoKnits, I can give you a great deal on labels LOL