Custom Clothing Printing in Taunton: Farm and Show Season Kit
By The Velocity Wear Team
Velocity Wear supplies embroidered and printed clothing to Taunton and Somerset businesses online, with tracked UK delivery. For a county town whose economy sits on farming, agricultural supply, machinery, veterinary and land-based trades, the sensible pattern is embroidered durable layers for everyday work and a separate lighter run of shirts for the show circuit. Minimum order is 20 pieces per order with sizes mixed freely.
Specify for February, Not for Show Day
It is tempting to choose kit while imagining a bright July morning on a trade stand. Most of the wear happens in the dark, in the wet, on the Levels, in January. Garments chosen for the pleasant version of the job fall apart in the real one.
That means darker colours that live with mud, embroidery rather than print because the wash cycle is unforgiving, and layers rather than one heavy coat. A gilet over a fleece over a long-sleeve base gives people something to take off, which matters more than any single warm garment when the day starts near freezing and ends in drizzle.
Show Kit Is a Different Garment Entirely
Somerset's show calendar, from the Bath and West through the smaller county and village shows, puts local businesses in front of customers for a handful of days a year. Stand kit is presentation clothing: a clean fitted polo or a smart shirt that photographs well and looks like the business is doing well.
Do not try to use working kit on the stand and do not use show kit for work. They will not survive each other. Two short lists sharing one logo file is cheaper over three years than one garment doing both jobs badly.
Order the Whole Circuit in One Go
Most rural businesses attend several shows across a season and order for each one as it arrives, in small batches, paying setup repeatedly. Consolidating the whole season into a single order gets you the volume where bulk discounts start to matter, and they reach up to around 40% as quantities rise.
The condition for that working is simple: leave the year and the show name off the garments. Undated kit moves freely between events and carries over to next season. Dated kit turns your surplus into rags the moment the show closes.
What a Somerset Rural Business Usually Needs
- Embroidered fleeces and gilets in dark colours as the everyday core, because they layer and they survive hot washing.
- A waterproof outer that is not embroidered, branded instead with a heat-applied transfer so the membrane stays intact.
- Fitted embroidered polos in a lighter colour, kept separate and reserved for shows, open days and customer visits.
- Screen-printed tees for seasonal or casual labour, one or two colours, over-ordered slightly in the middle sizes.
- Vinyl names or role words applied per garment where individual identification genuinely helps on a busy yard.
Embroidering Gilets, Quilted Jackets and Fleeces
These garments are harder to stitch cleanly than a flat polo and it is worth knowing why. Quilted panels have channels and seams that a hoop cannot flatten, so placement has to avoid them rather than sit across them. Fleece has pile, which swallows fine detail and raises the minimum size at which text stays readable. Padded garments need proper backing or the design puckers as the stitching pulls.
Practically, that means simplifying the logo for these items: fewer thin strokes, no small strapline, and a slightly larger overall mark than you would use on a polo. It is not a compromise on quality. It is what makes the result look deliberate.
The County Town Side of the Business
Taunton is not only farms. Merchants, veterinary practices, machinery dealers, contractors and the professional firms that serve them all buy branded clothing, and they need to look credible in a client's yard and in a meeting on the same day. A quarter-zip or a softshell with small tonal embroidery handles both, where a heavy chest print handles neither.
“"Buy the kit for February. July will look after itself."”
Timing, Minimums and Pricing
Production starts at artwork approval, not at order placement. Allow around 10 to 15 working days from approval for embroidery and screen printing, plus proofing time and 2 to 5 working days for UK delivery after dispatch. For a show season starting in late spring, that means artwork signed off over the winter. The free Design Studio shows artwork on the garment before anything is made, and the instant price calculator updates live as you change garment, method and quantity.