Customized Safety Apparel and Corporate Branding Solutions
Northland Workwear & Embroidery
Custom Workwear, Built to Your Spec in Edmonton
Most workwear is bought the way it was made — someone else's idea of where a pocket goes, how long a sleeve runs, what a knee has to survive. That is fine until it is not.
We make the garment, which means we can change it. Not trim it or badge it: change it. Because the pattern table is in this building, none of it requires anybody's permission.
What we change
Three kinds of alteration, and they compound.
Why we can say yes to this
Most shops selling custom workwear are ordering from a catalogue and adding a logo. Ask them to move a pocket and the answer takes six weeks to come back from somewhere else, and it is usually no.
We develop the pattern, cut the fabric and sew the garment in one building on 76 Avenue. A change to the pattern is a conversation with the person holding the shears, not a request routed through a supplier who has never seen your worksite. That is the whole difference, and it is the reason the answer is generally yes.
A custom-designed or heavily modified garment takes longer than pulling a stock size off the shelf — there is pattern work and a sample to approve before anything is cut in volume. We would rather spend that time than make four hundred of something nobody checked.
Heat-pressed lettering
For the jobs where thread is the wrong tool.
Embroidery is the right answer for a logo on a chest. It is the wrong answer for a company name across the back of forty jackets, or a safety message that has to be legible from across a yard. Heat transfer fuses the lettering into the fabric under heat and pressure, and it does large areas at a cost embroidery cannot match.
It holds up: no fading, peeling or cracking through repeated industrial laundering, which is the only durability test that means anything in this work. It goes onto cotton, poly/cotton and flame-resistant fabrics.
On FR garments there is a question worth asking, and we ask it before the press comes down rather than after: the transfer has to belong on FR fabric. Putting the wrong one on a flame-resistant coverall undoes the thing you paid for.
Looking for embroidery, patches or cresting? Those have a page of their own, with digitizing, backing options and what it all costs — see custom embroidery and patches. This page is about changing the garment itself.
Why it's us
We have been stitching in Edmonton since 1989 and cutting and sewing the garments ourselves since the early 2000s — which started, more or less, because we got tired of putting careful work onto coveralls that did not deserve it. Family-owned then, family-owned now.
We supply accounts across Alberta and Northern BC. The people who cut your order are the people who will hear about it if something is wrong, and that turns out to matter more than any guarantee printed on a page.
Tell us what the garment needs to do
Describe the job and where the current gear falls short. We will tell you what can be changed, and what it takes.