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Contact Us
Phone, Fax, and Email
Toll Free: 1-800-851-3671
Fax: 253-922-2187
Email:
erik@go2shirt.com
Mailing Address
Northwest Embroidery
2025 Freeman Road East
Milton, WA 98354
Please give Erik Mickelson a call to set your account up. Erik is the Operations Manager and has been with Northwest Embroidery his entire life. Erik can work with you on pricing and setting up your contract embroidery program. You can contact Erik at erik@go2shirt.com or call him directly at 1-800-851-3671 ext: 112
Driving Directions
Northwest Embroidery is located in Milton, Washington. Please take I-5 and use exit 137 (Fife/Milton Exit) Take a left at the Shell gas station, which will be 20th street. Follow 20th to the very end (base of the hill). You will see Northwest Embroidery on your right on the corner. You will see a flashing reader board. The sales office is the second office on your left.
Northwest Embroidery
provides custom contract embroidery on caps and garments and can ship
throughout the United States. Besides direct embroidery we have a factory in
Mainland China that produces custom embroidery patches. Custom patch embroidery
is great for promotional product companies and corporate logo embroidery.
Besides contract embroidery Northwest Embroidery provides embroidery digtizing
services where we also have our digitizing office in China. Northwest Embroidery
offers the most competitive embroidery prices in the Pacific Northwest. We
have 100 heads of embroidery and all of it is produced on Tajima or SWF
machines. Machine embroidery is the best for a sharp looking design with high
quality embroidery. Northwest Embroidery got their first commercial embroidery
machine back in 1977. You have come to the right place for any digitizing,
punching or embroidery services. Looking forward with working with you on your
next contract embroidery project.
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HISTORY OF NORTHWEST EMBROIDERY
Northwest Embroidery was founded back in 1977 by Jim
Mickelson. He entered the embroidery business like many others
serendipitously. Jim was traveling from Washington to Alaska every other week to
work as an administration manager for the Alaska Pipeline. Jim then came up with
the idea to sell embroidered caps to all the pipeline employees. When his trial
run of 300 sold out in 3 days, he knew he was on to something.
"I had
two careers until the pipeline was finished," Mickelson says. "We flew back and
forth between Washington and Alaska by charter. I had all this room in the
plane, so I filled it with hats. I just kept hauling hats up there and selling
them until I started making more money selling hats than working for Atlantic
Richfield.
The business grew quickly and Mickelson rented a facility back
home in Milton, Washington. Because of the poor service he received from his
embroidery contractor, he purchased an 11 head machine to do production himself.
"Within two weeks, we knew an 11 head wasn't enough," says Mickelson. Since
those early days, the owner estimates he has spent more than $2 million on
embroidery equipment.
Once the pipeline was finished, Mickelson turned
his full-time attention to Northwest Embroidery, which was officially started in
1977. One of its earliest niches was construction companies. But it didn't take
long for the entrepreneur to identify which market held the most profit and
potential.
In 1978, he was approached by an emerging apparel company
called Blue Ribbon Sports. For a full year, Mickelson got $2.50 a garment for
embroidering a little swoosh logo. If you haven't guessed by now, the brand name
of that company was Nike. At its peak during this period, Northwest Embroidery
was running 160 heads, seven days a week, 24 hours per day.
Today,
Northwest Embroidery employees 2 of the Mickelsons. Jim Mickelson is still
President followed by his 2 children; Erik and Scott. All of the Mickelson
siblings have individual departments and responsibilities. "It is great working
with my dad and brother . We have our own responsibilities and never step on
each other's toes" says Erik Mickelson. Northwest Embroidery will continue its
success for another 30 years!
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