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How to recognise patches

mokonokos
Tue, 19/12/2017 - 16:35

Hello, i know it should be an obvious thing to know here. However, I never know how to recognise printed or woven or embroided patches. How do you recognise them?


SolveMyMath's picture

Hey man!

Printed patches are easiest to recognize: it is just a picture printed on the textile. Most of them suck because the resolution of the print is relatively small, so you will see a grid on the final picture. Most of them are bootlegs, although there might be some exceptions, as on this picture.
http://www.rockbymail.com/ekmps/shops/rockbymail/images/messiah-choir-of...
They have the least values since they are really very easy to print.

Embroidered patch is just a thread which was embroidered over the textile. It is the most popular type of logo patches. Their quality may also vary from shitty one to the really cool ones, you can compare these two pictures to see what I mean. If you wanna have a really good one, check the pictures carefully.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/e7gAAOSw9NxTs69E/s-l300.jpg
https://pp.userapi.com/c636717/v636717869/e32/PFrNUeZx5Lc.jpg
Sometimes embroidered patches are made for album covers, but in most cases they look really primitive, although I have seen a couple of the really good ones, like e.g. this
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/78oAAOSwCQNWeXP-/s-l1600.jpg.

Woven patches are made by weaving, they are made of many threads woven on a warp and a weft. Usually they look really qualitative and most of the vintage patches are woven. Woven allows you to reproduce all the details of the original cover, They are also most expensive, because they were made in limited edition and usually nobody produces more copies later.

How to recognize them?
Well, most sellers write whether the patch is woven or embroidered, so it should not be a big problem. But if it's not specified, just look at the structure of the patch. If it looks primitive, it's embroidered. If it is full of details, then it is woven.

Blüdrayne's picture

> Sometimes embroidered patches are made for album covers, but in most cases they look really primitive, although I have seen a couple of the really good ones

This is the gold standard, credits to Nate

https://tshirtslayer.com/files-tshirt/styles/shirtview/public/user-7840/...

mokonokos's picture

Hey man,

Thank you for this really detailed answer! I couldn't have hoped for a better comment. Thanks very much man it's really usefull!

Cheers

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