hand-embroidered EXODUS patch

CryptKeeperSat, 13/02/2010 - 09:33

When I started my Kutte in July 2009, I decided that I wanted a cover patch from Exodus' Tempo of the Damned album (btw: knows anyone what the title should mean? thx! ;-) ), but the only Exodus cover patch that exists is the one from Bonded by Blood (or at least there was no trace of another one in the whole internet). So I had to make it by myself!

I printed out the artwork and traced the outlines of the main one-colored areas on a piece of paper and colored them. Then I traced the outlines on the piece of cloth that would become the patch in the end (I cut it out of a shopping bag), stole the threads from my mother and just started.

Well, if I had known how long it would take I had thought about it twice, but once I had started I had no other coice but finish it! And by the end of January it was finally done.

Unfortunately the patch had many "mountains and valleys", it was very contorted because I didn't use a tentering frame, so I put it between two pieces of wood and into a vice. Then I ironed a piece of drapery with textile-glue on it on the back of the patch and finally sewed it on my Kutte.

I put it on the neck of the vest because by chance it had the perfect size; unfortunately it will be covered by hair in the end... ;-) By now only the upper third is covered, but so what, neck-patches are doomed to be covered by hair! :-D

Btw: If someone breaks into your house and doesn't leave any fingerprints, it could be me using only thumb, index- and middle finger of my right hand, there's not much left of the finger tips thanks to patch-embroidering and -sewing!

I hope the explanation is understandable, I had to look up every third word in leo.org because I never had to use textile terms before.

UPDATE March 2012: I straightened the borders and added a nice border with the sewing machine.

Patch

Not for sale or trade

Year: 2010

Bands:

Exodus

Thrash metal

hand-made

hammer slammer on Sat, 13/02/2010 - 10:39

nice work!

Thrashocutionist on Sat, 13/02/2010 - 18:56

Yikes! I know what its like drawing patches!

PrinceAdam on Sat, 13/02/2010 - 19:55

that looks great

Adrian on Sat, 13/02/2010 - 20:33

Nice work!

ManOboy on Sat, 13/02/2010 - 23:39

dude great work, thats one of my favorite albums by my favorite band! So you just drew it on a loth with pen, and colored it in? or did you sew it?

CryptKeeper on Sun, 14/02/2010 - 05:00

I sewed it, stitch for stitch! The drawing was only to determine the single-colored areas (the original image is in millions or so colors, the patch only in about ten colors).

no idea if you know what I wanted to say... ;-) just returned from a thrash concert which may have affected my english skills badly...

ManOboy on Sun, 14/02/2010 - 05:31

right on! How long did it take? and what band you seE?

CryptKeeper on Sun, 14/02/2010 - 11:26

I startet end of last July and finished end of January, so it took me about half a year.

I saw Battalion (http://www.myspace.com/battalionofficial) in & from Zürich together with Spellbound and Eradicator from Germany. Quite underground...

ManOboy on Sun, 14/02/2010 - 22:48

wow. But i bet it was the best feeling in the world of satisfaction after you completed it! Good work once again.

CryptKeeper on Thu, 18/02/2010 - 11:07

Thanks again! :D

HeathenThrone on Thu, 04/03/2010 - 04:19

This proves you have a true passion for metal. Great work dude, it's officially one of a kind.

CryptKeeper on Thu, 04/03/2010 - 21:04

Thanks! And it proves something else: that I have toooo much spare time. ;-) At least during semesters, but therefore no free minutes in the time before the exams...

sacredreichnumber1 on Thu, 06/05/2010 - 05:03

thats pretty sick dude, it makes me feel like doing that myself xD
and to the comment above, its not like u cant have a girl giving u dome while ur sewing that shit ;D haha

CryptKeeper on Wed, 02/06/2010 - 00:05

*g*

heavymetalmaniak94 on Sun, 20/06/2010 - 07:26

dude thats sick beyond belief, i wanna do something similar cuz bonded by blood is not my favorite exodus record, but fabulous disaster is. i give u props man

CryptKeeper on Thu, 24/06/2010 - 07:46

Thanks! BTW there is (or was) a Fabulous Disaster patch, I've seen one on ebay some time ago, here's a picture (actually, if I'm not mistaken, that's even a shop): http://www.leninimports.com/exodusfdp1.html

It's not the album artwork though, but still cool.

CryptKeeper on Thu, 24/06/2010 - 14:21

Just saw that there's such a Fabulous Disaster patch on ebay right now.

ManOboy on Thu, 24/06/2010 - 18:28

theres also a good friendlt violent fun patch on there too.

Dangerclose on Thu, 24/06/2010 - 00:19

Nice work. I would have just used the t-shirt though, or better yet had about a dozen or so screen printed and sold the rest.

CryptKeeper on Thu, 24/06/2010 - 07:48

Thanks! I didn't need a BP so I didn't use a shirt (actually I didn't even know about making BP's out of shirts, but never mind...). But a cut out TOTD-BP would be really awesome, that's right!

And printed patches suck...

Hungry_Mosher on Thu, 05/08/2010 - 15:45

this is ...
i have no words for it totaly briliant man
think im gona do the same thing but then for DRI
i like to have one of a kind stuff
Keep up the good shit man you are a true artist
Cheers

CryptKeeper on Thu, 05/08/2010 - 16:52

Thanks man!

thrashowa on Sun, 26/09/2010 - 21:50

FUCKIN' AWESOME! Great work! :D

whiteravenmetal on Mon, 27/09/2010 - 02:01

Excelent, Excelent fucking job in this patch, Exodus are the law, and you really got to like Tempo of the Damned .

CryptKeeper on Mon, 27/09/2010 - 10:49

Awesome album, and - almost equally important for this work - awesome artwork. I really like it's atmosphere.

CryptKeeper on Fri, 22/10/2010 - 13:21

Yes, I used colored threads, I don't think they can fade out substantially... At least not more than custom woven patches which are made of colored threads as well!

metalhead4ever on Tue, 16/11/2010 - 07:19

Wow! You are a dedicated & artistic fan.

mhongTHRASH on Mon, 13/12/2010 - 14:46

so badass man! ur gonna sell this? :)

CryptKeeper on Thu, 23/12/2010 - 20:48

Do you wanna finance my sunset years? Then you can buy it! ;-)

No, to be serious, of course I won't sell it, and if only because it would be far too expensive with all the work I've put into it.

Terroristic-Ham... on Mon, 03/01/2011 - 21:09

good patch not good album... I made custom before but nothing this hard just logos

Bayernpirat

on Thu, 27/01/2011 - 15:25

Great work. which way did you stitch this one? from hand or sewing machine. I make many DIY patches but this one is awesome.

CryptKeeper on Thu, 03/02/2011 - 17:10

100% handwork. I stitched it like this: stitch through it from below, go forth some millimeters, stitch through it, go about half the distance back and stitch through it from below again (if possible, through the thread) and so on: two "steps" forth, one "step" back, two "steps" forth, one... ... ...

With normal, thin sewing threads, BTW. That's also why it took me about half a year, but once I had worked on it for some weeks, there was no turning back, but in the end, once the "structures" were all done and only homogeneous, one-colored areas had to be filled, it was quite hard ... but totally worth it.

Nabrotzky on Thu, 17/03/2011 - 16:03

Holy shit

Seany Genovese on Sun, 01/05/2011 - 02:17

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. Some people have all the dexterity, and they're robbing from people like me who need it. Great job! :D

CryptKeeper on Sun, 01/05/2011 - 09:29

*lol* thanks! :-D

Baksteen on Thu, 04/08/2011 - 06:20

I want to try this with Fabulous Disater! :D

CryptKeeper on Thu, 15/12/2011 - 08:42

That's (even) more difficult, I'd say, 'cause it's a photograph rather than a painting. But I'd love to see the result!

Morbideath on Thu, 15/12/2011 - 04:33

Supreme!

Chilean Trooper on Wed, 29/02/2012 - 06:48

Epic Work, really awesome. Long life Exodus mate!

Mad Marvin on Fri, 14/09/2012 - 18:37

Maybe the most amazing Patch I have ever seen!

IronBound5 on Fri, 07/12/2012 - 18:59

Dude this is just EPIC.

Metal_Assassin666 on Tue, 25/12/2012 - 21:51

Great work! I think tempo of the damned refers to metal heads as "the damned"... The tempo of metal heads is moshing.

doyle92 on Fri, 25/01/2013 - 16:37

Speechless!
Fantastic job!

sfusyron

on Thu, 02/04/2015 - 02:00

Very awesome great job..

Messiah-Of-Pigs on Wed, 21/04/2021 - 10:38

Looks really good

Iron gremlin on Tue, 25/01/2022 - 22:30

BRUH you absolute mad lad, I am both blown away and enraged that your first embroidery is so good. Especially all the lighting and human details, but the color still gives it a nice crude look I associate with exodus.

Three million flames