[amayausers] Re: 3d foam hats?
- From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:53:16 -0400
I took the question to be sewing ON foam hats-not sewing the foam
underlayment....so maybe we can get clarification?
Roland
> From: "Laughing Palm Inc." <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: Laughing Palm, Inc.
> Reply-To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 09:31:29 -0400
> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [amayausers] Re: 3d foam hats?
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roland R. Irish III
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:01 AM
> To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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