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Custom Patches for Fire Departments: Designing a Shoulder Patch That Lasts

A fire department shoulder patch does a lot of work. It identifies the department to the public, ties current members to the people who served before them and holds up through years of uniform washing. Fire service patches borrow much of their tradition from custom military patches, from the shoulder placement to the use of a crest, a motto and a bold border, so the design lessons from one world carry over well to the other. Many patch makers, Sew What among them, produc