Can You Embroider on Nylon Hats?

Although you have an embroidery machine, you face many troubles in embroidering nylon hats. The most common problem in embroidering caps is mirror puckering. Nylon fabric is sturdy. But it is also very smooth and slippery.

When using the hoop, the teeth of the frame don’t sink into the seam between the bill and the front panel. As a result, the teeth slip down a little bit.

Can You Embroider on Nylon Hats? Yes, you can embroider on nylon hats is to use double backing and stabilizers. The best stabilizer to pair it with is a medium-weight cutaway stabilizer. Next, spray the stabilizer with a temporary spray adhesive. Spraying prevents the fabric from slipping around the hoop.

Cutaway Embroidery stabilizer goes underneath your material, and it is going to stabilize your design.

Major Types of Nylon Fabric:

Nylon is a strong synthetic durable fabric used in caps/hats, jackets, bags, outdoor flags, etc. A few things you need to keep in mind while embroidering on nylon.

There are various types of nylon that are commonly found in fabrics. But, most importantly, there are two major types:

Sport nylon
Ripstop nylon

Sport nylon has a heavier weight than some other types of nylon which is easy to care for. In addition, this type of fabric can be easy to wipe, cleaned, or machine washed.

Ripstop nylon is lighter than sport nylon. As a result, it has a silkier texture. This type of fabric is woven with some heavier threads to help prevent ripping or tearing.

Both sport and ripstop nylon is used to make hats or caps. Both types of nylon come in various colors.

Step by Step Procedure to Embroider Nylon Hats:

Materials required:

Nylon hats
Hoop
Cutaway Embroidery stabilizer
Temporary spray adhesive
Embroidery machine

Follow the procedure below to make custom embroidery designs on nylon caps/hats.

Step 1:

After spraying the medium-weight cutaway stabilizer with temporary spray adhesive, smooth the nylon fabric on top. Make sure it’s nice and flat with no wrinkles. You can also add double stick tape to the bottom side of the top portion of the hoop. This tape keeps the fabric from pulling away from the sides of the hoop.

Step 2:

Hoop the nylon fabric and stabilizer together and tighten with the hand screw.

Step 3:

Then embroider the design using a size 75/11 sharp sewing needle. This type of needle works great when embroidering on sturdy fabrics like nylon. The designs have light to medium complexity. Most importantly, it is not recommended to design heavier complex designs on nylon as these types of designs tend to pull more on the fabric during embroidery. As a result, it causes the nylon to pucker.