Personalisation guide

Every Welcomenest piece can be personalised in our Melbourne studio with a name, an initial, or a short phrase. This guide walks through what's possible — character limits, scripts, thread colours, placement, and care — so the piece you order arrives the way you pictured it.

Character limits

  • Backpacks and library bags — up to twelve characters across one line
  • Lunch bags — up to ten characters
  • Towels, bibs, and swaddles — up to fifteen characters
  • Plush (Native Koala) — up to eight characters on the satin label

Spaces and apostrophes count as a character. For longer names we'll come back to you to confirm sizing before we stitch.

Script styles

Three preview styles are offered at checkout — choose by feel.

  • Simple — a clean block sans, calm and contemporary. Sits well on canvas and on darker fabrics.
  • Script — a flowing cursive with editorial weight. Best for soft fabrics — muslin, terry, plush.
  • Modern — a quiet serif italic, considered and grown-up. Suits gifting and keepsake pieces.

Thread colours

Fifteen thread colours are available — each chosen to sit harmoniously against our material palette rather than to shout against it.

  • Naturals — ivory, oat, sand, stone, ash
  • Sages and greens — sage, eucalypt, forest
  • Warms — blush, clay, terracotta, walnut
  • Deeps — ink, navy, charcoal

Placement

  • Backpacks and library bags — front panel, centred, sitting roughly a third from the top.
  • Lunch bags — front panel, lower-right corner, so the name reads when set on a bench.
  • Towels and bibs — lower-right corner, on the bound edge.
  • Swaddles — one corner, in the wide hem.
  • Native Koala — woven satin label on the underside paw.

Care for embroidery

Hand-embroidery holds beautifully when treated gently. Wash cool — 30 degrees or below. Turn the piece inside out before washing. Skip the dryer where possible; flat-dry or line-dry in shade. A warm iron on the reverse will reset stitches if they ever look a little rumpled. Avoid bleach and avoid fabric softeners — both shorten the life of the thread.

Treated this way, the stitching outlives the fabric beneath it.