Custom Clothing Printing in Perth and Perthshire
By The Velocity Wear Team
Custom clothing printing in Perth covers two quite separate worlds: embroidered caps, gilets and workwear for the agricultural and rural trade, and embroidered polos and softshells for the office-based financial, insurance and energy employers in the city. Velocity Wear supplies both online from a 20-piece minimum with sizes mixed freely, delivered across Perth and Kinross on the same tracked UK service. There is no shop to visit.
Scotland's Agricultural Trading Floor
Perth punches far above its size in two directions at once. It has been the centre of Scottish livestock trading for generations, with the bull sales drawing buyers internationally, and the show and sale calendar structures the year for a huge rural supply chain: feed merchants, machinery dealers, vets, hauliers, fencing contractors, agricultural consultants. Every one of them wants branded caps, gilets and polos on the ground during show season.
The other Perth is corporate. The city hosts significant head-office employment in insurance, financial services and energy, alongside a whisky blending heritage that shaped the place and a visitor economy built on Scone, the racecourse and the surrounding Perthshire estates. Those buyers order the way any head office does: understated, one colour, embroidered, consistent across sites.
The Cap Seam Problem
Here is the detail that ruins more cap orders than anything else. A five-panel cap has a seam running vertically down the centre front. A six-panel cap has a seam right where a centred logo wants to sit. That seam is a raised ridge of stitched fabric, and embroidery across it distorts: letters bulge, straight lines kick, and a wide horizontal logo ends up looking bent.
Your options are simple once you know. Choose a five-panel cap, which has an unbroken front panel, for a wide centred design. Keep the design narrow enough to sit within one panel on a six-panel cap. Or move the mark off centre entirely, which is why so many well-made caps carry a small side or rear embroidery instead. Decide this before you approve artwork, because it changes both the garment and the digitising.
Kit That Survives a Show Field
- Caps and beanies: the highest-visibility branded item at any outdoor sale or show, and the cheapest per person to hand out.
- Gilets and bodywarmers: embroidered, worn over everything, and the default rural layer from September to May.
- Polos in mid to dark tones: they hide the reality of a livestock ring far better than pale colours.
- Waterproof outers: leave undecorated or use a patch, since stitching through a membrane compromises it.
- Printed tees for staff at trade stands: cheaper per unit and easy to replace annually as the design changes.
“"A cap is the only garment where the seam decides the design. Argue with it and the design loses."”
Two Buyer Types, Two Different Briefs
The rural brief is about durability and visibility at 30 metres across a ring or a stand. Bold, simple, high contrast, embroidered so it survives being worn daily through winter. The corporate brief is the opposite: small, discreet, matched exactly to brand colours, on garments that need to look right in a client meeting. Trying to use one design treatment for both usually produces something that works for neither. It is entirely reasonable to run two versions of the same identity at different scales.
Minimums, Volume and the Show Calendar
Twenty pieces per order with sizes mixed freely covers a stand team or a small contracting business easily, and caps count towards the same run as garments. Bulk discounts reach up to around 40% as quantities rise, so a business ordering once ahead of the whole show and sale season pays less than one topping up before every event. It also avoids the colour drift that comes from ordering the same garment across different production batches.
Lead Times and Delivery Across Perthshire
Production starts at artwork approval, which for show season means approving in late winter rather than the week before. Embroidery and screen printing take around 10-15 working days from approval as a guide, sublimation and complex jobs nearer 15-20, and tracked UK delivery typically adds 2-5 working days to reach Perth, Crieff, Blairgowrie and rural Perthshire addresses. Preview the layout in the free Design Studio and check quantities in the instant calculator before approving.