Monogram

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A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol. Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols or logos.

An individual's monogram is often a very fancy piece of art for adorning luggage, clothing, and so forth.

Our view on monograms is that they serve two purposes. One purpose is they identify the owner of an object. And two they are a decorative element to that object. We at West57Design.com love those purposes.

Now onto the order of monograms; they can be a single letter, two initials or three initials.

The single letter is either your first or last name. The two letter monogram has both first and last names.

Now it is the three letter monogram that gets more debate. Generally, the three letter monogram for a man is all the same size letters with the order being first name, middle name, last name. So John Doe Smith would be JDS.

Then for a woman the middle letter is the last name and larger than the rest. The order of a three letter monogram is first name, last name, middle name. So Marie Leigh Smith is MSL.

For a married couple there is much debate on the order of letters. We at West57Design.com lean toward the most accepted view. The man’s first name is on the left, their last name is in the middle, and the woman’s name is on the right. So for John and Marie Smith we’d have JSM.

Please remember to add the letters in the order you wish them to appear. If you have any questions, please contact us at Bobbi@West57Design.com.

By the way, most monograms are capital letters. We do like lower case better in some fonts and for children since it adds a bit of whimsy and fun to the bag. Just remember with us you are designing it yourself so you are the expert.

Embroidery

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Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. A characteristic of embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest work—chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch—remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.

Machine embroidery, arising in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, mimics hand embroidery, especially in the use of chain stitches, but the "satin stitch" and hemming stitches of machine work rely on the use of multiple threads and resemble hand work in their appearance, not their construction.

Much contemporary embroidery is stitched with a computerized embroidery machine using patterns "digitized" with embroidery software. In machine embroidery, different types of "fills" add texture and design to the finished work. Machine embroidery is used to add logos and monograms to business shirts or jackets, gifts, and team apparel as well as to decorate household linens, draperies, and decorator fabrics that mimic the elaborate hand embroidery of the past.