Stitches of Bridgnorth sewed its first stitch on June 6th 1995. The job was for 500 aprons and we had one 6-head embroidery machine – this took some time to complete! Within 2 months we were running the 6-head 2 shifts a day at full capacity. With a little help from a finance company and a machine that was ready to go in Japan, a month later we had a shiny new 8-head machine. We were still running 2 shifts a day and it was all systems go.

Four years later we had outgrown our original premises and with a move to a larger building we decided to have a go at screen printing. Embroidery and screen printing seemed to go hand in hand and it couldn’t be that difficult could it? It was – but we learned a lot about processes and the fundamental principle is the same. An item comes in, it gets branded and it gets sent out. We spent a lot of time and effort developing our system.

In 2007, we bought a digital transfer printer to augment the screen printing. Limited space necessitated our move in 2013 to a 1300m² building at Hollybush Road, Bridgnorth which has enabled our transfer department to really grow, plus it’s nice to have room to spread out!