Max Revitt
Founder
Started the shed after one too many disappointingly faded printed garments. Owns the range decisions, supplier relationships and the final say on anything that goes live.
Our story
Stitched with
purpose.
The Embroidery Shed is a UK specialist in custom embroidered workwear. We started because good embroidery was too hard to find at a fair price. That has not changed.
Why we exist
We make the workwear we couldn't find.
For too long the choice was cheap printed garments that faded after a dozen washes, or expensive bespoke orders with minimum runs that excluded smaller teams and businesses. We wanted the third option: embroidered workwear that held up to daily wear, started from a single garment, and arrived looking exactly like the proof.
So we built it ourselves. Every garment in the range begins with a question: does this embroider cleanly, wash reliably, and last long enough to be worth the investment? If the answer to any of those is no, it doesn't make the cut. Nothing ships until we'd order it ourselves.
- 2019
- Founded in the UK
- 1 garment
- Minimum order
- 100+
- Garment styles in the range
- 5–10 days
- Standard production lead time
What we stand for
Four things we don't compromise on.
Principles aren't a marketing page for us. They're the rules the studio argues over every time we cut a new pattern.
01
The garment comes first
We select fabrics for how they hold up on a worksite, not how they photograph. Before a style goes into the range we test wash-fastness, colour retention, and how the embroidery thread sits after a hundred cycles. Quality is a standing instruction, not a launch claim.
02
No fuss, no nonsense
Workwear should do its job quietly. We keep the range tight and the descriptions honest. If a polo is 220gsm pique, we say so. If the colour runs after thirty washes, it doesn't make the cut. The people wearing this kit every day deserve straight answers.
03
Stitched, not printed
Embroidery outlasts print by years. The thread is locked in, not sitting on top of the fabric, so logos stay crisp long after screen prints fade and peel. We digitise every design in-house so the artwork translates cleanly to thread, whatever the detail.
04
Honest about the numbers
Good embroidered garments cost more than cheap printed ones, and we won't pretend otherwise. We'd rather explain what the price buys than race to the bottom on quality. A garment that lasts three years costs less per wear than one replaced every season.
Garments & embroidery
Better fabric, better thread, kept for longer.
We source garments from established workwear manufacturers known for consistent sizing and colour-fastness. Pique polos that hold their shape. Fleece hoodies that don't pill. Softshell jackets that stay water-resistant after repeated washing.
How we keep the standard honest
- Every design is digitised in-house, not outsourced, so we control the stitch density and pull compensation.
- Thread is colourfast and rated for industrial washing. The logo looks the same on day one and day three hundred.
- Plastic-free packaging on every order.
- No minimum order: one garment gets the same care as a hundred.
We'd rather explain the trade-offs in garment selection than make promises we can't keep. The about page is where we show our working.
The best compliment a customer can give us is that their crew looked great and nobody had to chase a reorder. That's the whole job.
The road so far
From one machine to a full range.
No overnight success story, just a lot of prototypes, a lot of washed samples, and a refusal to ship anything we wouldn't order ourselves.
A workbench and a vision
Started by a small team who couldn't find embroidered workwear that lasted, The Embroidery Shed begins with one commercial embroidery machine, a tight catalogue of proven garments and a rule: only stock what we'd wear ourselves.
In-house digitising
We bring artwork digitising in-house so every logo is optimised for thread density and stitch direction before it touches a garment. The quality step-change is immediate. Artwork revisions drop, and customer reorder rates climb.
The full workwear range
We expand beyond polos and tees to a full workwear range: softshell jackets, bodywarmer gilets, quarter-zips, hoodies and headwear. Each category is sourced with the same brief: holds up to daily wear, embroiders cleanly, reorders reliably.
No-minimum ordering
We launch ordering from a single garment, with clear volume pricing for larger runs. The minimum order is one, and we mean it.
Online, direct, transparent
A headless, direct-to-customer store, clear pricing, and the same standard on every order regardless of size. The Embroidery Shed online is the same shed you'd visit in person.
The team
A small team, focused on getting it right.
A dedicated group doing sourcing, digitising, embroidery and customer service. Often the same person, the same day.
Elliot Hallam
Operations
Keeps sourcing, dispatch and stock moving. Will tell you the expected delivery date to within a working day, unprompted.
Vanessa Bizzell
Digitising and Quality
Translates a customer's logo into a production-ready embroidery file, then checks the output against the proof. Nothing ships until it matches.
Get started
The workwear speaks louder than the page.
Explore the range, or read how we think about garment selection, embroidery and kit care in the journal.
Behind the demo
The Embroidery Shed is a demo, handcrafted by Revitt.
Everything you've just clicked through (headless WooCommerce, this Next.js storefront, AI search, MCP store control and the full marketing stack) was designed and built by Revitt, a software consultancy in Sheffield. We build fast, considered commerce and AI systems for brands that care about the details. Want one of these for your shop? That's exactly what we do.
- Studio
- Sheffield, UK
- Discipline
- Software, commerce & AI
- This build
- Headless Woo + Next.js
- Online
- revitt.co