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[[fr:Geneva Health Forum 2018 embroidery]]
== Introduction ==

Machine embroidery supports communication (advertising, messages, strong ideas) and identity processes.

At the [http://ghf2018.g2hp.net/ Geneva Health Forum 2018],  [http://tecfa.unige.ch TECFA] organized a machine embroidery activity, a form of [[computer-aided design and manufacturing]].

Version française: [[:fr:Geneva Health Forum 2018 embroidery | Geneva Health Forum 2018 embroidery]]

== Activity ==
[[File: Form-drawing-patch.odg - LibreOffice Draw.png | 300px | thumbnail | right | Drawing form given to participants]]

'''Initial design'''

The participants made a drawing with big markers, or sent a drawing or an image by email.

'''Digital Design'''
* The handmade drawings were scanned
* The images have been reduced in color and then vectorized
* The vectorized (cleaned) images have been translated into customizable embroidery objects

'''Manufacturing'''

* Embroidery objects (set) have been exported in machine format (* .jef for Elna / Janome)
* The structured fabric used was Gunold's STEP.

All of this is explained in various {{goblock | [[Stitch Era tutorials | tutorials]]}}. In particular [[Embroidery patch]] and [[Stitch Era - creating embroidery patches]].

== Souvenirs ==

In two days we had the opportunity to see several interesting stitched embroidery designs. We can distinguish 5 kinds:
* Militant messages
* Identity drawings
* Existing digitized logos
* Sketches for new logos
* Drawings without specific objectives

The creation of such an embroidery takes between 30 minutes and 50 minutes. For example:
* 10 minutes for drawing and explanations
* 10 minutes for scanning, vectorizing and creating embroidery objects
* 0 to 10 minutes for adjusting the embroidery objects
* 12 to 20 minutes for the stitching with the [[Elna 8300]], a small embroidery machine.

=== Choice of designs ===

We selected the following designs, shown as visualization of the machine readable embroidery files.

[[File: GHF2018-selected-badges-made-by-participants.png | 800px | none | GHF 2018 embroideries made by participants]]

=== Some pictures ===

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[[category: computerized embroidery]]