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14.WILD CARD WEEK

Softwares: Inkscape
Devices: Brother PE800 Embroidery Machine
Files: 14.Embroidery.jpeg

This week I wanted to explore embroidery options for my mat final project by embroidering a smaller element of it. I was in between mat designs, but finally landed on this sort of PCB design. To test, I tried embroidering the card placements.

For the individual card placements for a reading, I went for seven cards, and mimicked the look of small chips on a pcb. The center 3 cards have moon images in three phases, so that the user has the option of doing three-card “Past, Present, Future” readings. I added the number tags in the top right and left of the card, mostly to see whether or not the embroidery machine was capable of creating words with gaps (spoiler, it didnt).

I then uploaded a png image of the second card placement, into Inkscape and allowed it to create an embroidery Simulation of what would be produced. It only picked up the back portion of the embroidery design, and although it tried to do the font a little, it ultimately didn’t seem like the lettering would come out right.

To embroider, I used a red thread that was already threaded into the machine (it was already having issues with the top thread, so when it finally started working again I didn’t want to rock the boat too much by rethreading everything for a different color). I chose a blue weaver’s cloth and pressed embroidery stabilizer cloth into the backside using an iron.

Although the words didn’t come out well, you can still see a little bit of the outline of the letters, so I think if it was bigger (which in the final version, it will be!) it might show better. I enjoyed the thickness of the material, and I think the plan will be to individually embroider all the elements and then sew them to the mat in the final steps.

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Display Module

Card stand