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Excellent quality well priced belts by Kwon of Germany available in lengths from 240 to 320cm.
These superb, well-made 5mm thick belts that are softer and more easily tied than most, are obtained from South Korea and are available in lengths as shown
Excellent quality well priced belts by Kwon of Germany available in lengths from 240cm to 320cm
These 5mm thick belts are really the ultimate; of the best quality in both materials and build, substantial and with a good “heft” which is often preferred and much prized by older and more senior martial arts practitioners.
If the belt required is for a special occasion, then one of these presentation boxes may be just what is needed to lift your choice to the next level. Hand made to order these boxes manufactured in the UK.
£15.00 each
Embroidery on each end including one Dan bar £22.00.
Additional Dan bars £2.00 each.
Dated or otherwise embroidered Dan Bars £12.00 each.
Additional dan bars on customers own bets £5.00 each and every Dan Bar.
Belts provided by the customer incur a handling charge of £5.00 per belt.
Multiple thread colours £5.00 per colour.
Metallic thread £5.00.
Thread colours not included in our stock thread list £15.00 each.
Double line embroidery (not on file) £12.00.
Translation into Japanese Katakana or Korean Hangol £12.00.
Here at Threads Embroidery great pains are taken to ensure that our embroidery at least meets if not exceeds customer’s expectations, but it is important to both parties that those expectations take into account the limitations imposed by the very nature of embroidery thread and the construction of martial arts belts.
The picture most of us will have of the embroidery process is drawn from maybe a television historical drama depicting elegant ladies threading needles through a piece of fabric held tightly in a frame. Sad to say, embroidering a martial arts belt is very different from that picture for the reasons listed below. Millimetric accuracy is not to be expected when passing a slightly elastic thread like rayon into a hefty piece of fabric like a martial arts belt that can be secured only at each end of the working area and, with the best will in the world, some minor imperfections may not be apparent until the work if finished.
In the first place there is the actual embroidery thread, spun from Rayon. This material is very slightly elastic which makes achieving consistent tension on both the upper thread and the under thread difficult, especially when changing spools, when the elasticity of one spool of thread may vary minutely from another.
Then there is the narrowness of the fabric concerned, i.e. a martial arts belt, which can’t be held in a frame for obvious reasons but which can only be clamped at each end of the area to be embroidered. This can mean, although every effort is made to avoid it, that the belt may move very, very slightly in production, due to the action of the pressure foot, possibly resulting in some part of the embroidery being fractionally off-line.
Additionally, a martial arts belt is not a delicate piece of fabric to adorn, say, a lady’s dress, but rather a hefty item up to 5mm thick.
And finally, unlike that fine piece of silk for a lady’s dress or even canvas for a cushion cover, a martial arts belt does not provide a medium of uniform construction but rather is built of several layers, each of which may not be itself of uniform construction. In the picture shown above it can be seen that a section of a typical martial arts belt can consist of two layers of outer fabric and two layers of inner fabric to give the belt heft. Each of these inner layers consists of material rather like candle wicks sewn together, resulting in slight gaps where each piece of candle wick joins the next. When the embroidery needle attempts to place a stitch into this gap the stitch can fail, resulting in a missed stitch in the finished embroidery, particularly on straight horizontal and vertical lines
Please allow up to fifteen working days for delivery from the date of payment.
A Dojo Discount of 25% will apply to all orders from customers professionally involved in martial arts regardless of the order value. The only qualification for which is that the order is from an individual recognised by name in the website of the school or club concerned.
When ordering online, payment, by credit or debit card, has to be made before the order can be completed.
When ordering by email or text a detailed quotation will be raised and production scheduled on receipt of written confirmation that the details in the quotation are either correct or need to be amended. This is to protect both parties from any error in the finished product.
Once production is scheduled and notified payment is requested in full by bank transfer to the account provided in the finalised quotation except where credit terms have been agreed in advance.
Also, all orders are only accepted on the understanding that the minor imperfections referred to in the paragraph above, “Embroidering a Martial Arts Belt”, are as unavoidable part of the embroidery process.
Furthermore, the possible variations of interpretation of a customers instructions mean that inevitably there may be some differences of opinion. While every effort of consultation will be made, it should be appreciated that embroidery at this level is a craft, that is to say, an art with a practical purpose, and not a production line process.
Because of the importance customers attached to their martial arts belts all orders are sent out by Royal mail Special Delivery in order to secure a reliable tracking facility. A charge of £12.00 will apply to most orders but where larger consignments incur a greater cost the higher amount will be included in the final invoice.
Threads Embroidery operates a no quibble guarantee on all products that in the event of a fault with an item we will replace it free of any charge on receipt of the item in question. Where customer’s instructions are in error, for example with spelling, we will replace the item at half price.
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