Woven Ribbon Tape: How to determine the minimum total length?
A woven ribbon tape is ideal for displaying your logo continuously and in an evenly spaced sequence. The most common uses of a woven ribbon tape are in the lining [...]
Custom lapel pins, clothing labels, embroidered patches, luggage tags and more…
The look, how they are made and pricing are the most primary differences.
Embroidered patches are stitched more densely with a certain embroidery thread. These threads make the patch feel thicker which gives off a certain lift and three dimensional look to the patch. See Patch Sample.

However, if your design includes a lot of detail as the Flight Test Patch example does, than the better choice may be a woven patch.
Woven patches are more slender than embroidered patches and use a thinner thread similar to woven labels to capture the fine, graphic details better.
Sometimes if the detail is very precise, the embroidery thread cannot create the desired look. Custom woven patches are better than embroidered patches for featuring small details and very fine lettering. With a woven patch, due to the material and production process, a patch can be made in much smaller size without losing integrity, even down to 1″.
Unlike an embroidered, woven patches have the versatility to go on the inside or outside of clothing as they are thinner and do not have the structured back as well as the outside. They are very similar to the texture of labels inside of clothes but include typically a white fuse backing for support.
This Flight Test Patch is exceptionally profound in the amount of detail we were able to capture from the customer’s design. Being a 4″ round patch we were able to capture even the smallest most key details of the Continental airplane . One could even mistake it for being printed not actual woven threads.
The process of making exceptional quality woven patches that we produce is based on our ability to accurately translate your design, logo or idea into the medium of embroidered artwork (digitizing) for translation to our computer controlled embroidery machines.
Send us your logo or idea, and our expert graphic designers will create a beautiful design for you, and in only 3 weeks after you approve the art, you will have in your hands a high quality, beautiful looking, sharp coloring embroidered or woven patch.