Embroidered, not printed.
One bird, one flower, twelve threads. Every Atticus Reed crest begins with a state’s native pair — drawn, digitized, and raised in real embroidery — then moves through four hands 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
Extreme close. Real thread.
Six founding crests — the same embroidered files that land on every State Polo and State Tee — shot as pure macro. Satin on the bird. Quieter fill on the flower. No print, no transfer, no invented logo. Only the stitch.
The bird raised in satin. The flower as frame. Twelve threads, felt under the thumb before they are seen.
The bird raised. The flower as frame.
Every State Edition crest is a pair: the official state bird and flower, drawn as one mark and stitched so the bird sits proud in satin while the bloom settles in a quieter fill. The founding capsule of 6 — the same files that land on the polo and the tee — shown as they come off the machine.
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 draws every state’s bird and flower.
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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
Off the machine.
The same four hands draw, digitize, stitch, and finish every state. A founding capsule of 6 is off the machine and shipping today — each its own bird, flower, and colorway, set in the round seal; the rest of the fifty follow in turn.
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.