Embroidered, not printed.
One bird, one flower, twelve threads. Every Atticus Reed crest moves through four hands — illustrator, digitizer, embroiderer, finisher — before it is anchored to a piece made for a long round.
The drawing.
Each state is given a drawing — its bird in a quiet pose, its flower considered as a frame. The line is studied in our studio in the morning light, and re-drawn until the silhouette will hold under thread.
For the first edition we work with an in-house illustrator and an AI-assisted reference pipeline that pulls naturalist plates and Audubon studies into a shared mood board. Every final drawing is approved by hand. The machine helps; the line is ours.
Brown Thrasher
Cherokee Rose
Thread, told where to go.
A drawing is not yet embroidery. To become embroidery it must be digitized: every stitch direction, every layer, every density chosen with a master’s eye. We work with a digitizer who has stitched for college mascots, military regiments, and one or two famous American clubs.
Output is a DST file — a few kilobytes of instructions. A machine reads it, and the crest is born.
LA:Atticus Reed · The Georgia Polo ST:42,832 CO:12 + run-fill 0.45mm + satin 4.2mm wing + tatami 0.4mm body + underlay zigzag + trim at color change X+1.4 Y+0.0 stitch X+1.2 Y+0.8 stitch X+0.9 Y+1.2 stitch X+0.4 Y+1.4 stitch X-0.2 Y+1.5 stitch ... 42,827 more
Twelve spools, five minutes, one crest.
A multi-needle embroidery machine takes the DST file and a clamped panel of cloth, and stitches the crest in a few minutes. We use durable rayon and polyester embroidery threads chosen for color depth.
On the polos, the crest lands on the inner placket — felt before it is seen. On the quarter-zips, on the right sleeve. On the caps, the front panel.
≈ 5 min · ≈ 42,000 stitches
Twelve colors, no two crests alike.
Up close, the satin stitch catches the light differently than the tatami fill beneath it — the bird raised, the flower laid flat as a frame. There is no print to crack, no transfer to peel. Just thread, anchored to last as long as the cloth it sits on. This is Georgia’s brown thrasher and Cherokee rose; the same hand makes all fifty.
A blank worth the crest.
A crest deserves a piece that earns it. For the polos: durable soft-touch piqué with a mother-of-pearl placket. For the quarter-zips: a brushed cotton blend with underarm mesh. For the caps: washed cotton twill with a brass buckle.
Each blank is chosen for fit and function — built to hold the crest and carry the round.
- The PoloSoft-touch performance piqué blankmid-weight · mother-of-pearl placket
- The Quarter-ZipBrushed cotton-blend blank, underarm meshbrushed face · YKK-style zip
- The CapWashed cotton twill, brass buckle6-panel · unstructured · one size
Seven crests, shipping now.
The same four hands draw, digitize, stitch, and finish every state. These are the editions live today — each its own bird, flower, and colorway, set in the round seal.
We don’t stitch a crest until you order it.
Every garment is made to order. We don’t hold inventory of stitched pieces. When you choose a state, the right blank is pulled from our stock, the crest is stitched in your chosen colorway, and the piece is folded and shipped within seven to ten days.
Find your state