Before starting the embroidery on caps/hats, you should know about their hooping technique. If hooping does not perform its leads properly to awful results. Why not take the time to figure out how to hoop a caps/hats for embroidery?
Introduction:
Are you aware that nearly 80% of successful sites digitalize caps?? Caps /hats are not only a core of the embroidery business; they are amongst the many products of fashion that are loved and also imaginative.
It’s critical to know that cap hooping accessories are required before we get started. There are three primary components of the accessories used in hooping:
- Driver: The driver fits on top of the machine’s arm.
- Cap frame: It is the structure of the cap that is connected to your hat.
- Jig: The jig fixes the cap frame to make hooping more precise.
Let's first Talk About Different Types Of Caps/Hat:
OPF Hats:
OPF hats are easy to embroider because they have backpacks with lamination, and as there’s no central point so you can place them on gage and fix it.
Varsity Hats:
They don’t have any lamination backing on the front side. It is the reason these hats sometimes move a little bit. So for these hats the backing size must be appropriately fitted to keep the cap in place.
Sports Cap:
These hats have a stream in the center at the front side in a downward direction. So it’s easy to lock the stream with a red line on the cap frame.
Here Is How You Can Do Hoop A Cap:
Hooping Of A Hat:
Here are some steps mentioned that how you can hoop a cap for embroidery:
Before starting the hooping of any cap, first, you know the basis of embroidery hooping. The part where you hoop the hat is known as a gage, and a lever is placed on rotating the gage. To start the hooping process, remove the strap from the gauge.
- Take the backing and cut it in the size you need to hoop the cap. Now take a double-sided tape and cut it in finger length and stick it on the sides where you feel it will be needed. The double-sided tape will prevent the frame from moving from the gage, and it will be a secure way to put a cap frame on the gage and make your embroidery work easy.
- Now select the cap frame concerning your requirement, put the cap frame on the gauge, and press/ slap it many times. Try to remove clips from the cap frame first. Now put the backing on the cap frame and place your cape on the gauge. Fix the cap on the gauge.
- Ensure the red line on the gauge will be in the cap’s center and close the cap frame’s strap tightly. If a strip of cap frame is lost, it will cause the hat to change its position slightly, resulting in damage to the cap and embroidery. Now when the cap frame is being fixed in a cap. Remove the cap with the cap frame from the gauge.
- Now point changes here about the type of caps to the hoop, so we provide you a few caps and detail, which can cause problems while embroidering. So keep in mind the properties of hats and then hoop them.
Hats and Caps Embroidery 3D Design:
Always keep in mind, a cap must be correctly hooped to operate on a monitor effectively. But what’s essential is that the embroidery 3D design is digitized, mainly because the 3D design will be embroidered on a curved surface. Most professional digitizers take care of the 3D embroidery designs and digitize a size-friendly layout for a hat/cap.
This is all you need to know before hooping a cap/hat for the best results. Caps/Hats are the basic requirements of the customers nowadays.
