Woven and Embroidered Badges
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We supply our badges to Scouting and Girlguiding Groups, a number of Schools and Academies, and Football Clubs and other organisations. In addition to woven badges and embroidered badges, we supply wire-embroidered bullion blazer badges and insignia for formal dresswear.
Use our Get a Quote page to send us your artwork, your ideas or rough sketches, and an indication of badge size and the quantity required, to receive a prompt response. We quote for each job individually. Whatever badges you need, we are here to help you.
Our competitive prices include artwork, set‑up and UK delivery.
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Woven badges
Woven badges are ideal for small lettering and fine detail. The design is woven into the cloth, a backing is applied, and the badge is finished with an overlocked border. For intricate shapes, the badge is hot-knife cut to shape, resulting in a flatter finish.
Embroidered badges
Your design is embroidered onto a backing material, creating a raised look and tactile feel. The badge is then laser-cut to shape and finished with an overlocked border. Alternatively, the badge can be hot-knife cut to shape to seal the thread ends, leaving a border around the badge. We can also supply badges with a heat-applied glue backing.
Wire-embroidered badges and insignia
Blazer badges and insignia for formal dresswear use gold- and silver-plated wire in addition to coloured threads. They are worn mainly by members of clubs and servicemen’s associations.
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Badges for Scouts and GirlGuides
At Nottingham badges, we specialize in producing badges from your design ideas, but we are happy to work with your own finished artwork. We can also adapt or customize many of our badges to meet your requirements.
see Scouting and Girlguiding page
Girlguiding World Thinking Day 2024
World Thinking Day, February 22nd, is a day of international friendship. The theme for 2024 — Our World, Our Thriving Future: The environment and global poverty — aims to encourage Girl Guides worldwide to explore the link between poverty and the environment.
We can adapt the above design to meet your needs, or we can produce badges from your own design ideas.
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Badges for Schools and Academies
We have supplied woven and embroidered blazer badges to a number of Schools and Academies. In addition to badges, we also provide house patches and other items for sewing onto students’ uniforms.
see schools and academies page
Badges for Football Teams and Clubs
We provide badges for many football teams and clubs—usually to their own designs and artwork. These badges can have up to 8 colour threads, and are usually finished with an overlock stitched border.
About Nottingham Badges
Nottingham Badges began trading in Nottingham’s Lace Market in 1977, supplying screenprinted tee-shirts, sweatshirts, and badges. In a few years, as the company grew, sales of garments and badges were formed into separate businesses. Nottingham Badges now supplies bespoke woven and embroidered badges to a wide customer base; our sister company, Nottingham ScreenPrints, manages the screenprinting business and sales of Fruit of the Loom leisurewear.
As a small, family-run business, we provide a prompt and personal service and aim to supply quality badges at competitive prices. Our design studio will send the final badge design for your approval but we now out-source production to an overseas supplier whose state-of-the-art equipment enables us to supply badges at very keen prices.
Use our Get a Quote page to send us your artwork, your rough sketches or ideas, and an indication of badge size and the quantity required, to receive our prompt response. We are confident that our prices are competitive compared with those of other suppliers of quality cloth badges.
We take pride in providing our customers with a friendly, personal service, and with our more than four decades of experience in the badges industry, you can be assured of a first-rate service from Nottingham Badges.
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for more information, a quote, or advice