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ABOUT US
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Monograms of
Distinction |
Monograms of Distinction was started in 1984 with one embroidery machine set up in the dining room of our home. The business grew; we bought more machines, renovated the basement, hired 3 employees and sold personalized crib blankets by mail order for the next several years. Eventually it became more and more difficult to get a quality blanket suitable for embroidery. One supplier even told us that they would not sell to us anymore because they couldn’t provide the quality we required. So, we needed to find an alternative… |
We found a contractor out of state and they made our blankets for several more years. However, the quality of sewing wasn’t always up to our high standards, and delivery was often slow. At this time we also decided to bring the binding of the crib blankets in house. We bought binding machines, set them up in our living room and learned how to bind blankets. We hired two people to do the binding – they worked at night in our living room after the day shift had gone home!
By this time, the business had taken over our home, and we decided we needed to move the business to a separate location. In 1995, we purchased a 2,600 square foot building and moved our entire operation – by this time we had 4 embroidery machines as well as two binding machines and eight employees.
During the next 5 years we saw many changes in the textile industry – and the southern mill that was our sole source of blanket fabric told us they were closing. Once again we were desperate to find fabric to make quality crib blankets to fill our ever-increasing orders. A mill in Maine supplied our fabric for several years until they filed Chapter 11 early in 2001.
This time, we decided to investigate other fabrics suitable for crib blankets – and discovered that polyester fleece was the perfect alternative. It was available from several sources, the quality was consistent and most important, it embroidered beautifully! In April of 2001 we started making our blankets out of fleece.
In September of 2001 we again moved to a larger facility (8,000 sq. ft.) which allows us to maintain a large inventory of fabric, as well as sewn crib blankets. We now also manufacture other baby items and can offer these high quality products such as hooded towels, pillowcases and receiving blankets along with our crib blankets to other embroiderers.