Kanji embroidery

[opr1945]

Does anyone know, recommend, of a web site that does custom Kanji embroidery on a GI that is already owned buy the customer? I have a GI that I would like to have embroidered rather than purchase a new gi and ordered it embroidered. Obviously I would have to send it to them.

Thanks.

 

[Same Trick]

Maybe easier if there can be made patches with required embroidery ?

 

[drop bear]

It would be like any embroidery picture. You would pay a set up fee for them to put it in their machine.

you basically just have to give them the image.

年
月
練
訓

That is kanji for do MMA.

 

[Gyakuto]

It would be like any embroidery picture. You would pay a set up fee for them to put it in their machine.

you basically just have to give them the image.
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年
月
練
訓

That is kanji for do MMA.

Is that embroidery punched all the way through the belt with the reverse image of the characters visible on the other side?

 

[Gyakuto]

There are many companies who will do excellent custom embroidery but you usually have to supply the image for them to render, via their software into their embroidery machine.

If you need your Western name transliteration into kanji characters…that’s a different matter.

Here’s my name in Kanji.

 

[drop bear]

Is that embroidery punched all the way through the belt with the reverse image of the characters visible on the other side?

 

[Gyakuto]

There are some companies that will embroider (usually expensive black silk belts) without it appearing on the reverse. They do it by embroidering the outer silk cloth before sewing the whole belt together.

Can you buy silk purple belts? They’d look beautiful although be impractical; I imagine they’d undo all the time during grappling!

 

[opr1945]

I was thinking of Kanji style on chest. and name in Kanji at bottom corner of jacket. I found one that will do limited translation into kanji included in your purchase price of new jacket, including names.

I would prefer not to purchase new jacket.

 

[Gyakuto]

I was thinking of Kanji style on chest. and name in Kanji at bottom corner of jacket. I found one that will do limited translation into kanji included in your purchase price of new jacket, including names.

I would prefer not to purchase new jacket.

Well it’s how they make their money and keep going.

 

[opr1945]

"There are some companies that will embroider (usually expensive black silk belts) without it appearing on the reverse. They do it by embroidering the outer silk cloth before sewing the whole belt together."

One I came across said they open up the folded belt and embroidery one side and then resew the belt.

 

[opr1945]

Well it’s how they make their money and keep going.

Just because they want my money doesn't mean I have to give it to them. I guess that is why some companies don't sell GI jackets and pants separately while others do.

 

[opr1945]

Maybe easier if there can be made patches with required embroidery ?

Yes, most lower rank students have a style Kanji embroidered patch on left chest. Some black belt students have style embroidered on left chest and organization embroidered on left sleeve at shoulder height.

I am planning on talking to Sensi about this. I just think the embroidery on jacket looks better.

 

[opr1945]

Well it’s how they make their money and keep going.

What I meant was I am willing to pay for the embroidery, but I would prefer to have it done to my jacket as opposed to buying a new jacket and then having to pay for the embroidery by the seller on the new jacket. I have found several business here willing to do embroidery on my jacket but but not in Kanji.

 

[Gyakuto]

What I meant was I am willing to pay for the embroidery, but I would prefer to have it done to my jacket as opposed to buying a new jacket and then having to pay for the embroidery by the seller on the new jacket. I have found several business here willing to do embroidery on my jacket but but not in Kanji.

Companies here won’t embroider on customer’s property because they say, occasionally, the embroidery machine chews up the clothing and destroys it. Then they are told the garment that’s been destroyed was a rare piece of clothing woven from the silk that Cleopatra herself wore when she first met Mark Anthony and has been handed down the family line and finally to the current owner by his dying grandmother. Then they want free service for ever or threaten to get solicitors involved! So they just don’t do it.

 

[opr1945]

Makes sense. Didn't think about that.

 

[Hot Lunch]

I was thinking of Kanji style on chest. and name in Kanji at bottom corner of jacket. I found one that will do limited translation into kanji included in your purchase price of new jacket, including names.

I would prefer not to purchase new jacket.

You can't get whatever kanji you want on the chest. If your association requires a patch on the chest, then the patch goes there. Some associations, like SKIF and Kyokushinkai, have the kanji for their association that goes there. But, once again, you don't get whatever you want on the chest.

If you don't have a Japanese name, you don't get kanji on your lapel. You get katakana. There's what's called "ateji," where kanji is used to spell out your name according to the pronunciation of the kanji characters, but they would end up conveying a totally different meaning that has nothing to do with your name (Andre Bertel is a famous an example of a western karateka with ateji on his gi). In my estimation, however, you can only get away with that if there's no Japanese person in your dojo... otherwise, you're going to be in for an awkward conversation.

But as for the lapel, good look finding a local tailor that does that. However, you're still in luck:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/115688908241

This seller makes aftermarket patches that you can put on your gi (i.e., above the brand label on the jacket, and the innerside of the brand label on the pants). Make sure you measure the lapel before choosing the size.

 

[opr1945]

I just wanted style on chest. Most students have that. Either embroidered on jacket or a patch sewn on jacket. The name on the tail of jacket above manufacturers label cane from from on of the on line sellers of Gis. I haven't noticed anyone with that.

Thanks for link. I may set one done and sew it on the inside of jacket. When we do Sanchin Kata everyone takes off their jacket and puts aside. Might keep from getting mixed up.

Thanks.

 

[opr1945]

This is not the one I originally came across. But, they offer embroidery at multiple locations on jackets and other options as well.

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