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Associated Press
5 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Yazirwan Sewing Reveals Top 5 Best Commercial Embroidery Machines for 2025
Yazirwan Sewing ranks the top 5 commercial embroidery machines for 2025, led by the ZSK Sprint 7, to help businesses invest confidently. NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, June 4, 2025 / / -- Yazirwan Sewing is a trusted name in industrial embroidery and sewing equipment. They have released a new guide on the Top 5 Best Commercial Embroidery Machines for 2025. This guide helps entrepreneurs and established businesses make smart investment choices. It uses industry experience, honest customer feedback, and performance benchmarks. The ZSK Sprint 7 is at the top of the list. It is known for its fast production, 18-needle options, and excellent German engineering. The guide also breaks down leading models from Brother, Ricoma, and more, tailored to suit various business needs. Top 5 Best Commercial Embroidery Machines for 2025 1. ZSK Sprint 7 This high-performance, single-head machine has 18 needles and the slimmest tubular arm on the market. It is ideal for caps, sleeves, bags, and intricate designs. 2. Brother PR1055X A 10-needle powerhouse with a user-friendly touchscreen, wireless design transfer, and camera positioning system for precision embroidery. 3. Ricoma MT-1501 Durable and reliable 15-needle single-head machine. Great for both startups and established businesses with higher production demands. 4. Tajima TMBP-SC1501 This 15-needle model is compact and commercial-grade. It comes from a well-known Japanese brand. It runs quietly and provides strong output for smaller spaces. 5. Bernina E 16 Pro A flexible, multi-needle machine combining Bernina's stitch quality with commercial-level speed. Well-suited for businesses moving up from hobby-level equipment. How Yazirwan Helps Businesses Choose the Right The blog post lists essential factors for choosing the right embroidery machine. These include needle count, hoop compatibility, support services, and machine versatility. Yazirwan Sewing helps customers make custom uniforms, fashion clothes, or promotional items. They offer guidance, training, and after-sales service worldwide. 'Our customers want to get it right the first time,' said the team at Yazirwan Sewing. 'The ZSK Sprint 7 tops our list, but we help every client find the perfect match for their production goals and budget.' About Yazirwan Sewing Yazirwan Sewing specializes in industrial embroidery, sewing, and garment machinery. A trusted partner for embroidery businesses, offering deep product knowledge and responsive customer service. Its international presence is growing, making it a reliable choice for high-quality solutions. Yazirwan Sewing has a strong distribution network supplying top-of-the-line machines from trusted brands. Our main goal is to help our clients find the best products. We use all our resources in the market. Our top brands include BabyLock, Tajima, Janome, Singer, Bernina, Husqvarna, and many others. We want to be a top supplier in the market. Our goal is to grow our business from manufacturing to distribution. Media Contact: Tiara Outreach & Public Affairs PR [email protected] Thomas Lenz Sterling Sewing email us here Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
Winnipeg Free Press
25-04-2025
- Business
- Winnipeg Free Press
GarmaTech Inc. makes everything from workwear to bridal gowns
Shelley Ediger recalls being five years old, standing in her family's home on a grain farm in rural Manitoba and imagining herself wearing a beautiful dress of her own design. Ediger was already proficient with her mother's white Bernina sewing machine. She cut a rectangular piece off a bolt of fabric, tied it around her neck and envisioned the possibilities. 'I still remember looking in the mirror and thinking, 'Someday I could be a fancy lady wearing this gown,'' recalls Ediger, who grew up in Homewood, some 75 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg. ''I could make the dresses that I see in magazines.'' MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS GarmaTech founder Shelley Ediger at the Winnipeg company's manufacturing shop in the Exchange District. Today, Ediger gets to make everything from workwear to bridal gowns with GarmaTech Inc., the company she started in 2018. Headquartered in a 1,000-square-foot production space in the Exchange District of Winnipeg, Ediger and her seven employees do design work, pattern making and manufacturing for a range of brands. Six local contractors help out when things are busy and the company has partners in China, Vietnam and South Africa. It's a nimble, efficient operation that has handled orders ranging from 100 to 20,000 units. Now 37, Ediger enjoys that every day is different. 'I don't have to be one brand. That's the best.' Growing up, Ediger had trouble finding clothes that fit so she made her own. 'I've always been known for changing my clothes 15 times a day,' says Ediger, who made five different dresses to wear throughout her wedding day. 'Gotta get the look right for the weather, for the outing — whatever it's gonna be.' Ediger earned a certificate in small-business management at Red River College Polytechnic before moving to Vancouver to study fashion design at the Blanche Macdonald Centre. In 2012, she launched Dediger, a menswear brand she ran on the side while working as a patternmaker at Peerless Garments. In 2018, with the encouragement of Peerless CEO and co-owner Albert El Tassi, she struck out on her own and started GarmaTech. Around that same time, she wound down Dediger. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS In recent months Ediger brought her husband, Bobby Wall (left), on board to work as sales director. Ediger bears a scar on the knuckle of her right index finger from an important day in GarmaTech's history. It was soon after she had started the company, which at that time was based in a 300-sq.-ft. second-floor studio on Pacific Avenue. Ediger got a contract that necessitated a buttonhole machine — a $2,500 piece of equipment — and she could not find a used one in Winnipeg. She was about to purchase an expensive used machine from Toronto when she decided to check online sales platform Kijiji one more time. A local listing popped up offering a buttonhole machine for $200. Two messages to the seller went unanswered, so Ediger decided to find them by driving up and down every street in the postal code attached to the listing and visiting any business that looked like it might have the machine in question. Eventually, she stopped at a Portage Avenue bridal shop. Not only was it the right place, but the shop was going out of business and the seller offered her numerous other pieces of manufacturing equipment. It was all priced to go, with the stipulation she remove it from the premises that day. With the help of her father and some movers she found online, Ediger moved the equipment onto a flatbed truck during a rainstorm. At some point, she cut herself. 'I have this giant scar because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. I was just moving and then, all of a sudden, there's blood pumping out of my hand.' MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Digital patterns are displayed on a work laptop. Locating the machine she needed and obtaining equipment she wasn't expecting, finding movers on short notice — everything aligned in a way that told Ediger she was on the right path. The additional equipment meant she needed to find a bigger space, which led her to GarmaTech's current location (61 Juno St.), which she rents from El Tassi. The company has never been short of work, Ediger says, but in recent months she's brought her husband, Bobby Wall, on board to work as sales director. Wall's first order of business was to promote Sero, a line of do-it-yourself sewing kits Ediger created to encourage people to make their own clothing. GarmaTech makes the kits using leftover fabric. Wall, who also works in real estate, says he's amused when he encounters Winnipeggers who don't realize companies like GarmaTech exist in their city. 'They're like, 'Oh, I had no idea you could actually manufacture garments here,'' the 43-year-old says. 'They're just blown away.' He notes Winnipeg has a long history of garment manufacturing. The industry employed thousands of people in the city before manufacturers moved abroad to find cheaper labour. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Inderjit Jassal cuts fabric at GarmaTech. Ediger and her seven employees do design work, pattern making and manufacturing for a range of brands. Lately, Wall has been spreading the word to Manitoba businesses that if they need to have clothing manufactured, they can do it in Winnipeg. With the U.S.-Canada trade war and a recent emphasis on buying local, it's an opportune time for that message. 'Let's make things in Canada,' Ediger says. 'We can and it's so easy.' Working with a Canadian business is important to & For Love, a Toronto-based bridal company that has outsourced work to GarmaTech since 2021. 'Shelley is super professional; she knows what she's doing,' says co-founder Angel Spendlove. 'We just really wanted to keep our company Canadian-based, so finding Shelley was great.' For Nicola Loewen, owner of Mad About Style on Academy Road, working with GarmaTech has allowed her to create a clothing line unique to her boutique. Since 2020, Loewen and her colleagues have worked with Ediger to design the Mad Collection, which GarmaTech manufactures. 'It made sense to work with another local, female-owned business,' Loewen says. 'Shelley really pours her heart into each project that she's working on. From the beginning, she's understood our brand and what we're trying to achieve. She just gets it done.' During Elections Get campaign news, insight, analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox during Canada's 2025 election. After years of designing and manufacturing for other people, Ediger recently took the time to create the garment she envisioned when she stood in front of the mirror with a piece of fabric slung over her shoulders more than 30 years ago. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Susan Crouise sews at GarmaTech's 1,000-sq.-ft. production space. It's a bias cut halter dress with an open back that will be available via Sero in the coming months. After years of building GarmaTech at a slow and steady pace, Ediger feels good about the foundation she's laid. 'We are strong, we are capable and now we are ready and we are solid,' she says. 'I feel confident now that we're ready to do almost anything.' Aaron EppReporter Aaron Epp reports on business for the Free Press. After freelancing for the paper for a decade, he joined the staff full-time in 2024. He was previously the associate editor at Canadian Mennonite. Read more about Aaron. 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The Guardian
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Sew Torn review – seamstress thriller turns into Run Lola Run-style alternative-reality caper
Thread-slingers with an addiction to YouTube tutorials (like me) may have seen an amusing film by seamstress/historian Bernadette Banner in which she reacts to a bunch of films that feature actors sewing, or at least pretending to sew. Examples include How the Grinch Stole Christmas (not convincing) to The Phantom Thread (mostly bang on, featuring real dressmakers at work). Each one is picked apart with waspish scrutiny by Banner, who can spot the difference between a vintage treadle-operated chain stitch machine and a lockstitch machine from different periods in the 19th-century. Hopefully Banner will get a chance to scrutinise this loosely sewing-themed thriller and nitpick its faux pas, such as the bit where the seamstress protagonist Barbara (Eve Connolly) seems to sew a button on a client's wedding dress in less than a minute. (No thread shank? Shocking!) In fact, it is clear co-writer-director Freddy Macdonald is more interested in sewing equipment, especially thread reels and needles, rather than sewing per se. The conceit is that Barbara, a shy American woman running a sewing supply shop and mobile seamstress business in Switzerland after the death of her mother, comes across the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong. In Run Lola Run-style, the film shows us three different outcomes, each based on whether Barbara chooses to commit the perfect crime, call the police, or run away. In nearly all she uses reels of Mettler thread to rig up pulleys and other simple machines to create booby traps or retrieve useful objects, little Heath Robinson-like contraptions that aren't quite traced out in enough detail to be persuasive. Drug deal-participants Joshua (Calum Worthy) and Beck (Thomas Douglas) are sometimes her allies and other times her antagonists, but in each timeline she must contend with psychopathic kingpin Hudson (John Lynch, the best thing in the film), doing extreme bad parenting as he bullies his son Joshua. Like the thread contraptions and what little sewing we see, the comedy is a bit, well, threadbare, while the full garment of the film lacks the finishing on the seams that would make it satisfying and professional-looking. There are just too many loose ends, in every sense, when this kind of black comic farce needs to run with the precision of a Bernina sewing machine – which is prominently featured here in a plausible bit of product placement. If there's a sequel, Macdonald should consider hiring Banner as a consultant. Sew Torn is on digital platforms from 31 March.
