Embroidery & craft

Water-soluble embroidery paper

Printable sticky stabiliser, plain backing, film topping and heavy lace stock — made on the same coating line as our industrial labels, cut to sheets or rolls, and supplied blank or under your own brand.

A4 sheets and slit rolls
Inkjet, laser and thermal
OEM and private label

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How the sticky printable works

Print it, stick it, stitch it, rinse it

No hooping the fabric itself, no tracing, no marking pen. The design goes on the paper, the paper goes on the fabric, and the paper leaves.

01
Print the design

Send your pattern to an ordinary desktop inkjet or laser printer. The coating takes ink without cockling or bleeding.
02
Peel and position

The low-tack adhesive lets you lift and reposition it on the fabric before you commit. Hoop the stabiliser, not the garment.
03
Stitch straight over it

Run the machine as normal. The paper holds registration and stops stitches sinking into pile or stretch fabrics.
04
Rinse it away

Warm water and light agitation. It dissolves rather than tearing, so nothing is left in the stitches to pick out.

Formats

Four stocks for four jobs

Weight and tack are what separate them. Tell us the fabric and the stitch density and we will point you at the right one — or coat one to your own spec.

ES-100

Printable self-adhesive water-soluble paper

Print the design, peel, stick, stitch, wash away.

Basis weight: 35 / 50 / 65 g/m²
Sizes: A4 · A3 · 210 / 297 / 450 mm rolls
Printing: Inkjet · laser · thermal transfer
Adhesive: Repositionable, low-tack
Dissolution temperature: 20 – 40 °C
Dissolution time: 30 – 90 s, agitated
Packing: 25 / 50 / 100 sheets · 25 – 100 m rolls

ES-200

Plain water-soluble backing stabiliser

Support under the fabric while the machine runs.

Basis weight: 25 / 40 / 60 g/m²
Sizes: 200 – 1 300 mm web
Printing: Blank, or pre-printed grid
Adhesive: None
Dissolution temperature: 20 – 40 °C
Dissolution time: 20 – 60 s
Packing: Rolls, 50 – 200 m

ES-300

Water-soluble film topping

Stops stitches sinking into towelling and fleece.

Total thickness: 20 / 35 / 50 µm
Sizes: 200 – 1 300 mm web
Printing: Clear, optional frosted
Adhesive: None
Dissolution temperature: 10 – 30 °C cold water
Dissolution time: 10 – 40 s
Packing: Rolls, 50 – 500 m

ES-400

Heavy stabiliser for free-standing lace

Carries dense stitching, then leaves the lace alone.

Basis weight: 80 / 100 / 120 g/m²
Sizes: A4 sheets · 300 – 900 mm rolls
Printing: Blank
Adhesive: None
Dissolution temperature: 30 – 50 °C, may need soaking
Dissolution time: 2 – 5 min
Packing: 20 / 50 sheets · 25 – 50 m rolls

Who buys it

Where it is used

Machine embroidery studios

Multi-head shops running caps, polos and badges. The printable sticky stock removes the marking and hooping step entirely.

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Towelling, fleece and pile

Film topping laid over the nap keeps satin stitches sitting on the surface instead of disappearing into it.

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Garment factories

Supplied in slit rolls to match your machine width, with consistent weight so the tension settings hold from lot to lot.

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Free-standing lace

Heavy stock carries dense stitching through the whole design, then washes out completely to leave the lace on its own.

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Patches and appliqué

Clean edges on cut-away patches without a stabiliser fringe left behind the merrow border.

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Hand embroidery and craft

Print a pattern, stick it on, work the stitches through it and rinse. Popular with cross-stitch, sashiko and punch needle.

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Buying from the factory

What we can do that a reseller cannot

Cut to your size

Sheets in A4, A3 or your own trim size; rolls slit from 80 mm to 1 300 mm to match your machine.

Your weight, not a catalogue weight

Coating weight is set on our own line, so a 45 g/m² or a 90 g/m² run is a formulation change, not a special order.

Private label and retail packs

Printed sleeves, header cards and barcodes for retail, or plain bulk for converting. Artwork handled in-house.

Consistent lot to lot

Same coating line, same QC. Tension and dissolve time stay where you set them when you reorder.

Questions we get

Can I use an ordinary home printer?

Yes. The printable stock is coated for standard desktop inkjet and laser printers. Feed one sheet at a time on older machines, and let inkjet output dry for a minute before peeling — that is all.

Does it leave anything in the stitches?

Not if it is fully rinsed. It dissolves rather than disintegrating, so there is no fibre to pick out. Dense designs and the heavy lace stock need a longer soak — stiffness after drying almost always means it was rinsed too briefly.

What water temperature?

Warm water at 30–40 °C with light agitation for the paper stocks; the film topping goes in cold. Hotter is not faster in any meaningful way and is harder on delicate fabrics.

Will it work on dark fabric?

Yes. The paper is opaque white, so a printed design reads clearly on black or navy — which is the main reason people use it instead of a marking pen.

Can it damage the fabric?

The stock itself is inert; the risk is the rinse. Anything that should not be soaked — leather, some wools, non-colourfast dyes — needs a spot test first, the same as any wet-removal stabiliser.

How should it be stored?

Sealed, at 20 °C and 50 % relative humidity, for twelve months. It is hygroscopic: leave a pack open in a humid workshop and it will soften and curl before you get to it.

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Send us your fabric and your design

Tell us the fabric, the stitch density and the size you need, in sheets or rolls. We will recommend a stock and send samples to run on your own machine.

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