The atelier
Your lettering.
Our needle.
Every body on this site ships blank. Write your brief on its product page — artwork, lettering, thread, placement — tick the work you want, and the price and the build time settle in front of you. No quote request, no waiting a week to hear back on the cost.
Blank until you write the brief
Process
Four stages, and you sign off on the second.
Nothing irreversible happens to a garment before you have seen the work on the same fabric and the same thread.
01
Submit
Pick a blank and write the brief on its product page — artwork, lettering, placement, thread. The price and the build time settle in front of you before you commit.
02
Stitch-out
We run your lettering or artwork on the same fabric and thread as the finished piece and photograph it. Nothing touches the garment until you have signed that off.
03
Build
Chain stitch first, embroidery second, leather saddle-stitched third, sterling set last. Every stage is logged against your order number.
04
Hand-off
The piece ships insured with its hardware hallmarks documented and its thread codes recorded, so a repair five years out matches the original exactly.
Rate card
Published prices. No quote request.
These are the same options priced into every product page, so you can cost a piece out before you start configuring it.
Hand chain-stitch lettering
Guided by hand under the needle, one continuous line. Up to 16 characters, in any of 5 placements. A stitch-out photograph comes back for approval before the garment is touched.
$28 / character
+1 week
Custom artwork, stitched to your brief
Your design digitized and run in chain stitch or satin embroidery — up to roughly a 10 by 12 inch panel. Describe it in the brief below; anything larger is quoted before it is charged.
$340
+3 weeks
Contrast chain-stitch overlock
Every exposed seam re-run on the chain-stitch machine in your chosen thread. Changes the whole read of a blank without adding a graphic.
$110
+1 week
Hand distressing & repair stitching
Abraded by hand at the hem, cuffs, and collar, then closed again with visible repair stitching in contrast thread.
$95
+1 week
Hand-stitched leather patch
Vegetable-tanned leather cut in-house and saddle-stitched to the placement you pick. No adhesive, no backing, no heat press.
$220
+2 weeks
Sterling dagger zip pull
A solid .925 dagger pull replacing the factory hardware, hung on a hand-formed jump ring.
$180
+2 weeks
Sterling hardware set
Solid .925 hardware cast and hand-polished in the studio, set through reinforced eyelets and hallmarked on the reverse.
$340
+3 weeks
22k gold-plated hardware upgrade
Every piece of metal on the garment stripped and re-plated in genuine 22k over sterling. Ages to a warm patina rather than staying bright.
$260
+2 weeks
Fit alteration to your measurements
Body, inseam, or sleeve taken in to numbers you send after ordering. The spec is confirmed in writing before anything is cut.
$160
+2 weeks
Full commissions — a garment you already own, a piece cut from scratch, or a run for a shop — are scoped individually and typically run eight to sixteen weeks. Bring photographs and a deadline and the studio will come back with a quote and a slot.
Start here
One of each, to show the range.
Seven shapes, ten colorways apiece. Open any of them and the brief field is the first thing on the page.
Lettering from $28 per character on all seventy blanks.