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About Pull Compensation on embroidery Digitizing

Pull compensation is a procedure for design stitching. It's about lining up the stitches used in making the embroidered design with a set of lines that are drawn along the fabric. The purpose of this procedure is to have your design lined up and not puckered or "pulled.". For the best digitizing service, please feel free to contact us.

What is pull compensation?

Pull compensation amplifies or minimizes the stitching length of a section to compensate for the tendency of the fabric to pull together when sewing embroidery at its top. The amount of pull compensation required depends on the type of fabric being sewn; Very stiff fabrics require little or no pull compensation, while loose fabrics require more compensation.

It is developed as a percentage of the actual stitch length. Example: - If we adjust the pull compensation to 120%, the stitch will be 20% longer than if the pull compensation is not set. As the hoop moves and the stitch forms, there will be some permanent pull on your fabric. Bending always occurs in the direction of the Angle of the pin. This may result in a hole in your stitches and an indistinct outline.


The amount pulled in depends on a number of reasons, including:

The type of fabric we use. Extended fabrics and soft knitted fabrics are more attractive than stable knitted fabrics.

The way we apply the stabilizer. We must use ironing or adhesive stabilizers with expanded fabric.

Long satin stitches pull more than short stitches.

The fabric must be stably wound.

The type of cushion suture that has been used. The pad must be applied to the largest area possible, and the pad should operate in other areas.

Why do we need to understand pull compensation?

As embroiderers, we must maintain the goal of the best final result. There are many ways to affect how our embroidery ends when it reaches our machine. You've talked about choosing the right needle, the right fabric. We embroider fabrics that are naturally transmissible.

When the hoop moves backwards and sews loudly, there is always some pull in our fabric. This leads to movement and difference. pull depends on the fabric we use with similar factors and the degree to which we loop it, the type of stabilizer we apply, the size of our design, the type of filling stitch or the padding stitch we use. All these together testify to the effect of our embroidery.

The way in which a stitch draws fabric into a stitch through embroidery applications. It could cause a vacuum in our suture. In digitizing, we need to judge the natural pull effect and compensate for it, which means we need to add the stitch length of the expected pull.


The digitizer, an expert in the field, can manually fill and pull by overlapping digitized objects. Our test splice will publish any areas that help adjust the pull compensation. When we did the test stitching, we observed that there was too much pull on the fabric and we needed to adjust the software Settings to compensate for the tension.

How to apply automatic pull compensation?

To apply pull compensation, you must follow the yelling steps:

Click the Pull compensation button.

Right-click the Pull compensation icon to change the current Settings.

Select pull compensation and enter excess stitch allowance.

Cotton: 0.20, T-shirt: 0.35, cashmere, sweater: 0.40