Cloth badges (by alaric)
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...
The SVN source is available for download, BTW. It was made on a Mac and uses an Apple font for the nice curly lambda, but I'm sure other platforms will have a good font that can be used instead.
Tue 12th Jun 2007 9:16 pm 
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By Charlee, Wed 13th Jun 2007 @ 8:12 am
Think Geek, ask them if they'd sell them perhaps?
By sarah, Wed 13th Jun 2007 @ 12:34 pm
Cafe press don't do cloth badges and I think they are the underlayer of ThinkGeek or were.
By alaric, Wed 13th Jun 2007 @ 1:14 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? 🙂
By alaric, Wed 16th Dec 2009 @ 1:33 pm
My kind colleague Andy had one embroidered into cloth for me: