Karate Embroidery Designs

When we started our martial arts embroidery studio more that 20 years ago, we were surprised and disappointed to find that the only software available for writing embroidery machine code was rather primitive and very expensive. The Japanese fonts, also, were rather mundane and dreary and certainly not what we were looking for. We then spent almost six months hand-digitizing hundreds of images of Japanese characters and turning them into machine code, which resulted in the unique and beautiful collection of brush scripted traditional Japanese characters that you see here.