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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
By John Wigham
 There are many different types of cross-stitching and embroidery yarns, and a multitude of companies that produce them. What is the difference between them and their yarns? Let's look closely at two of these major companies, both producing high quality yarns, doing a comparison study between them at the end.
DMC Yarn
First of all, let's look at the yarn company DMC, or Dollfus-Mieg & Compagnie, named after Daniel Dollfus and his wife, Anne-Marie Mieg. The custom in those days in France was for the husband to join the wife's maiden name to his own, which was how in 1800, DMC became the trade name for a previously existing family company.
But it wasn't until a short time later that they discovered John Mercer's invention of "mercerizing" the thread -- the process of passing the cotton thread through caustic soda, which modified the cotton, giving it strength, longevity, and a silky appearance; the production of their yarns and threads began at this time.
During this same time, a close friendship developed between Jean Dollfus, the uncle of Daniel Dollfus-Mieg, and |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
By Max Johnson
 There is no reason why you should wear the same old styles of uniforms to your workplace every day of the week, every week of the year, especially when there are so many custom work uniforms to choose from nowadays. People in every kind of work environment are trying to jazz up their workwear with something unique that will make them stand apart from the crowd. It could be a simple screening, or it could be something more elaborate as some embroidery work. Or they could spice up their workwear with different patterns and styles. Custom uniforms are the order of the day, and those who don't have something to wear that they themselves have designed, they are walking backwards.
The best way to customize your workwear is to go for embroidery. Custom embroidery workwear is becoming quite a rage everywhere. As you know, embroidery is the art where a pattern is reproduced onto a piece of cloth using threads. In making your custom work uniforms, you can give your own image through email or whatever and the custom uniform manufacturers will digitize the image into |
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