Custom Printed Craft and Hobby Labels

When you've spent hours of your time perfecting your handmade piece, why wouldn't you want to add custom craft labels to give it a professional edge and to claim it as your own? With custom-made craft and hobby labels, you can create customized tags for crafts, clothes or for handmade items of any kind. Available in packs of 10, 20, 40, 100 or 200, with no minimum order, you can order as many or as few as you like. 

Our custom craft labels are available in either flat or folded styles. The folded labels have a closed edge and a cut edge, with the cut edge to be sewn into your products. The flat craft labels have heat-sealed cut edges, designed to be folded in at the ends to achieve a skin side finish. Sealed so that they become non-fray, the labels are sent with a +1cm seam allowance.

Our custom craft labels are available in 13 different sizes, ranging from small - enough to fit a logo on it - to much larger so that you can add text, care instructions or even a personal message to your craft label design.  

How Craft and Hobby Labels are Made

Your custom design is printed directly onto the woven satin, not embroidered, which gives you excellent color reproduction and great readability for smaller details. The color penetrates deep into the fibers of the printed craft labels using a deep infusion method, which results in a permanent design that will not fade, scratch off or peel away.

Due to the production process that we use, there is the possibility of some seconds or borderline cases of labels. When this occurs we would automatically include these with your order (free of charge) in the hope that you might be able to make use of them. We feel that this is a much better solution than sending them straight to landfill. If you notice these cases within your order, it's worth checking as it's likely that they have been sent as extras rather than as part of your order. You may also see small sections of printed cutting lines on your labels. This is due to the handmade nature of our process. 

Please note: If you opt for folded labels, these will not be pre-folded.

Sizing For Hemming And Shrinkage

We have a full Cut & Sew service here at Contrado, and are able to hem your fabric prints for a small additional charge. We create a small one- or two-fold hem that typically uses 0.2" to 0.75" (5-20mm) of material, depending on the thickness of the fabric. So, for example, if you want a finished piece of fabric that measures 39.37" x 39.37", you will need to order a size of 39.96" x 39.96" to allow for the hem (on top of that please also allow for shrinkage of min 2%). The thicker the fabric, the bigger the hem will be. You can choose to have your prints hemmed with either Black or White thread. On our silk and other light woven fabrics, one hemmed edge will be straight (vertically down the roll) and the other will be slightly rippled. The hemming material allowances are as follows and you need to make your print bigger to accommodate the hem:

• Light Fabrics (0.59oz-2.95oz): For silks and other light fabrics, we use 0.24" - 0.32" / 6mm-8mm in the hem (2 fold), so overall width/height will be minus 0.48"-0.56""/ 12-16mm
• Medium Fabrics (2.98oz-5.90oz): For medium-weight fabrics that fray, we use 0.5 - 0.75" / 15-20mm in the hem (2 fold) so overall width/height will be minus 1.4" - 1.6" / 35-40mm
• Stiff/Heavy/No-fray fabrics: we use 0.5 - 0.75" / 15-20mm in the hem (1 fold) so overall width/height will be minus 1.5" / 35-40mm

All of these measurements are approximate and can vary. Including with shrinkage, it can mean a fairly significant difference to ordered dimensions, so please plan your print accordingly. Depending on how open the weave is, our fabric can shrink anywhere from 2% to 8% with the average being 2.5%.

How Would you Like the Edge?

• As it comes. We cut around your image, leaving a simply scissor cut, perhaps uneven white fabric border. 
• Hem with thread. We can hem your fabric with a choice of black or white thread. Please allow 1-2 days additional production time. See below for information on how hemming affects the size of your print. We offer an overlock hem, as well as a folded hem (one or two fold depending on the fabric) however not all fabrics are suited to both hem types. If you can see both options, it means both are suitable, and you will be able to choose whichever you prefer. 
• Cut on the line. We will cut neatly on the edge of your design. This means that if you have a border around your design we will cut around that border, if your design takes the whole space of the fabric, then we will neatly cut around the edge of that image. Please be aware, when we cut along the line, we have to cut against the grain of the fabric. This is the standard procedure for fabric cutting. This means that with some fabrics, for example, Georgette and Mulmul, which have a slight wave in them, some fraying will occur. This is unavoidable, as the cut follows the grain of the textile. 

All of our fabrics are cut manually by hand, with the utmost care and attention. If your fabric has a slightly uneven look on the edges or a touch of fraying, this does not indicate a flaw in the textile. It is not always possible to achieve a perfectly straight cut with certain fabrics, so please do bare this in mind when it comes to your design. If you have any queries or would like to know about our cutting methods in more detail, please get in touch and we will be more than happy to discuss them with you.

Please note: As we make everything by hand, all sizes may vary slightly.

For further information about our fabrics see our FAQs.

How much can I fit onto the labels?

The amount that you can fit onto your craft and hobby labels is dependant on the size of the labels that you have chosen. The smaller sizes are perfect for when you just want to add a logo, but we'd advise larger labels if you want to add more, for example, text.

If I make the text smaller, can't I fit more on?

You can, however, we would advise making sure that you use a font size that is at least 10pt, or bigger, and that you use standard or heavy fonts instead of a lightweight or fine font, to make sure that your visibility is as great as possible.

Can I avoid folding the edges of the flat labels?

You can choose to sew your flat craft and hobby labels for handmade items flat, however, if you are doing so to a product intended to sit on the skin, then we'd advise using scissors to cut the heat-sealed edges off, you will have a risk of fraying in this instance.