Cloth badges
As I mentioned before, I have a cloth badge sewn onto my coat of many pockets. Now, Sarah is an avid collector of most things, including such badges; she has bags and boxes of them, generally not sewn onto anything. I don't have the urge to collect like that, but I wouldn't mind a few more to sew onto my coat.
I wouldn't want just any badges sewn on, though; I'm not even keen on picking up badges from places I visit and sewing them on to mark the event.
I think I'd probably like some nerdy ones, to be honest. A NetBSD logo or a hacker emblem would be pretty cool. But I'd really like something Lispy, so I designed the following:
Now, I've found places that will make badges for you, but the minimum orders tend to be in the realm of 100, at a cost of 85 pounds or so... and I don't know if I can sell the spares on to anybody 
Perhaps I need to set up a "nerdy cloth badges" business...
Think Geek, ask them if they'd sell them perhaps?
Comment by Charlee — Wed 13th Jun 2007 @ 8:12 am
Cafe press don't do cloth badges and I think they are the underlayer of ThinkGeek or were.
Comment by sarah — Wed 13th Jun 2007 @ 12:34 pm
The manufacturers I found were Franklins:
http://www.franklins.co.uk/products/embroideredbadges.htm
And another lot - who, in trying to find again, I come across:
http://www.badgerbadges.co.uk/embroidered.htm
"no minimum quantities or set up charges". Hmmm, but what do they charge?
Comment by alaric — Wed 13th Jun 2007 @ 1:14 pm