Advertising Innovations is excited to announce its first annual promotional contest in conjunction with the launch of their new website.

Business for Bounty rewards Advertising Innovations’ Four Corners clientele for their loyalty in addition to supporting the Durango business community. B4B offers prize packages worth up to $1000.00 for the top two new customers to Advertising Innovations in 2012. Prize packages include lodging, dining, and entertainment in Durango as well as custom logo ware provided by Advertising Innovations. Watch our blog for upcoming details on the prize packages.

Our primary focus was to create a user-friendly website for you, our customers, which informs and inspires your business to take advantage of the many attributes of physical marketing. Browse or search Advertising Innovations’ website for any of over a million promotional, embroidery or apparel products from thousands of represented vendors. Existing customers will soon have restricted access to a customized page to order your own specific products online. Our blog will feature industry-related articles and monthly specials. If you’re looking for something special to promote your brand or event, check us out at adinpromo.com!

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 Painting by Needle & Thread

Em-broi-dery: The art of forming decorative thread patterns by hand or machine, has been around since man began to wear clothes. Stitching to join animal skins together fostered the development of hand-sewing techniques and led to the decorative possibilities of embellishment with thread, beads, shells, gems, and metals.

Elaborately embroidered clothing has been a mark of wealth and status in many cultures.

Hand Embroidery

Rich traders and merchants were willing to pay large sums of money for the luxury of embroidered clothing. Traditional techniques were passed through generations in diverse civilizations from the Middle East to Europe to Mexico. Professional workshops and guilds, called “Opus Anglicanum” or “English Work” arose in Medieval England and were famous throughout Europe for their exquisite stitching.

Fast forward several hundred years. Shuttle embroidery, based on the principles of the newly invented sewing machine, revolutionized the industry and led to the development of hand-powered embroidery looms in the 1870s. Swiss inventor Isaak Groebli is credited with the first practical embroidery machine, which utilized the combination of a continuously threaded needle and shuttle containing a bobbin of thread. The shuttle itself looked similar to the hull of a sailboat. “Schiffli” means “little boat” in his native language, so his machine came to be known as a schiffli machine.

Barudan, a leading manufacturer of advanced embroidery   machines, developed the first computerized machine in Ichinomiya, Japan in 1977. Computer technology, of course, has revolutionized the industry once again. Contemporary digitization software redraws any image in thread, allowing for exacting reproductions of artwork or logos. Different types of fill add texture and design to the finished work and mimic the elaborate hand-embroidery of the past.

Contemporary Machine Embroidered Art

Embroidered logos, monograms, business shirts or jackets and team apparel continue to make history today, giving businesses many options to develop their unique brand image. Physical marketing is a cost effective, dimensional, and durable way to catch your clients’ eyes and capture imagination.

Imagine what we can do for you.