[amayausers] Re: 3d foam hats?
- From: "Laughing Palm Inc." <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 09:31:29 -0400
Roland, I believe you may have misunderstood the question regarding "3D foam
hats". I believe the question was how to stitch 3-D puffy foam designs on
regular caps...as opposed to stitching on caps made out of foam. There's a
big difference there. I agree that stitching on foam caps is out of the
question...almost no one I know likes to do it. If I have a customer that
wants stitched foam caps, I have a cap manufacturer make them for me!
At least I *think* this is what the topic is about.... :-)
Cheers,
- Jim
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Subject: [amayausers] Re: 3d foam hats?
I was told when we got the Amaya and went to training that sewing on foam
hats was a no-no...and figured-what the heck, lets' try it! Can't be much
different than sewing foam under a design!
Here's what happens-because there is no structure and its about 1/8"
thick-the threads will make that foam pucker up so much it looks like shrink
wrap under a blow dryer! I finally got a fairly decent image but I think the
'material density' was around 20 or so-you have to do everything to let the
thread stay loose so it doesn't try to tighten up and pull the foam
together. Next up-we'll try and see how much cardboard would work to stiffen
it-but then you have lost the 'feel' of a foam hat-by creating a structure
in the front panel. I'm sitting on almost a thousand foam hats I wanted to
use up-most suppliers have dropped them since everyone switched to
embroidery and not decaling-but the price on canvas hats compared to foam is
so close now it doens't make $$ sense to waste time on foam anymore...
If you want 'cheap' hats-Ottocap has ongoing 'auctions' of case lots of
assorted hats-I bought over $700 (5 cases) and paid an average of $1.09 or
so for them-and got plenty of hats for the 'cheap sale' for low budget
clients.
Roland
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