Little Bear Design - Embroidery Shop & Gifts
Little Bear Design opened in December 2004 and offers unique personalized items, sports team wear, business wear and gifts for all occasions. We are located on the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory.
Little Bear Design has a broad selection of embroidery designs, including native clans- bear, turtle, wolf, eel, snipe, etc., Iroquois Confederacy, Warrior Design & Mohawk Design & other Iroquois Designs to choose from and in-stock items that include clothing, Jackets, baby items, ball caps and winter hats that your design or logo can be put on.
Also carry "Iroquois Confederacy Hoodies" and "Warrior Hoodies" & "Mohawk Hoodies" and Mohawk and Confederacy "green" re-usable shopping bags and Aluminum Water bottles.
There's also a vast array of samples to choose from for your organization, business, club, sports team or special event.
We also travel, have an event- we could attend- Let us know? email: littlebeardesign@sympatico.ca
- Events we attend:
- Kahnawake Powwow- 2nd Weekend in July
- Akwesasne Powwow- Beginning of September
We also now carry Hyper Performance Apparel.
Embroidery Machine Process
If you don’t know much about embroidery, don’t worry. Little Bear Design can take your idea from artwork to finished embroidery apparel.
The machine embroidery process works like this:
- Contact Little Bear Design to initiate the process. Decide which type of item, such as golf shirt, bag or towel etc., to be embroidered. We carry brand name, high quality products at reasonable costs- Browse our catalogs.
- Decide what you want to put on your item. If you have your own artwork, you can email it to us and we will give you a quote on digitizing.
- If you don't have your own artwork, you can look at our design library and find something you like.
- Once we have the garment, the design, and payment, we will schedule it for production usually within two weeks, often within one week.
- The garments are placed on a special hoop that holds them in place during the embroidery. We will load your embroidery design file onto our computerized embroidery machine.
- The embroidery design file controls where to put down stitches and when to change needle with different color thread. If it meets our quality standard, we can mail, drop off or you can pick up your item(s).
Digitizing
An artwork in a graphical file format doesn't mean that it is ready for embroidering. The design must be manually digitized. This involves using a mouse or a tablet to enter the design into a digitizing software.
A digitizer decides
- where to put stitches,
- what type of stitches to use,
- when to change colors, and
- how dense to make the stitches.
These stitch data are stored in embroidery design file. It is the road map used by a computerized embroidery machine to select thread color and to place stitches on garment.
Once your artwork is digitized, we can place it on anything from shirts , towels, hats or jackets.
There is an one-time cost associated with having a logo or an artwork digitized.
Have your own artwork/logo and want to know much it's going to cost to recreate it in thread??
Drop by or email
or fax 613-933-2324
for a free Quote
We accept Visa, Mastercard and Interact
Tax Free Shopping
Little Bear Design 116 Lighthouse Road, Akwesasne, ON K6H 5R7
Open Friday & Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or call 613-933-2324
We carry Warrior, Iroquois Confederacy & Mohawk Hoodies for Adults S-3X and
Mohawk Childrens Hoodies S-XL
We also carry new Mohawk T-shirts for Adults, Women and Children -XS-4X
In stock Warrior & Iroquois Confederacy caps and winter hats, and a selection of clothing and jackets.
Akwesasne Mohawk Nation Territory
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