The Embroidery & Direct-to-Garment Extravaganza Seminar Tour is produced by SWF East and strategic partners. Back in September of 2002, we produced our first Seminar & Trade Show held in Detroit, MI. Since our modest beginnings we have grown steadily to become a powerful and respected training resource in the apparel decorating industry. One of the secrets to our success is that we provide hands-on demonstrations on the products we showcase during the event. Furthermore, the advantage of our seminars is that we meet with attendees in an intimate setting allowing for extensive interaction between participating vendors and visitors. Plus, our instructors actually make their living as apparel decorators. They're real embroiderers and screen printers (like yourself) and they understand the real issues you face everyday. They teach using plain English, and each session is presented in a casual style with humor to make learning new techniques easy and fun. Best of all, our instructors don't hold anything back. If they train for us, they've agreed to share with other embroiderers and screen printers all their inside tips, tricks of the trade, and secrets that have taken them years to learn on their own. That's why we offer the Embroidery & Direct-to-Garment Extravaganza seminars five times per year in different cities around the Eastern U.S. We invite you to attend one of our seminars and see for yourself what makes our days of training something very special.

See the latest products for 2008 including embroidery equipment, manual screen printing presses, digital garment printers, stock designs, embroidery machines, hooping devices, supplies and more. Meet face-to-face with the industry's leading company representatives, who will advise you on the best solution suited for you.

The Embroidery & Direct-to-Garment Extravaganza show continues to attract the best companies in the apparel decorating industry. We are proud to announce this year’s exhibitors! Click here to see the exhibitor list.

SAVE MONEY on equipment, software, accessories and services during the show.

Ask exhibitors about special discounts or Click here to see vendor discounts.

Sign up during registration to win door prizes provided by participating vendors. Door prize drawings begin at 1:15pm following lunch.

Door Prizes will be raffled off throughout the day.

The Embroidery & Direct-to-Garment Extravaganza is about education. Whether you are new or an existing apparel decorator these advanced courses can help you understand what it takes to maintain your embroidery machines, operate digital garment printers and digitize designs for profit.

Take advantage of advanced courses offered on Friday night and Saturday morning, and learn from talented and experienced speakers about proper embroidery machine maintenance, digitizing software trends and embroidery techniques.

Get your hands on the latest embroidery, screen printing and and digital printer equipment including the new automatic rhinestone setter.

The Embroidery & Direct-to-Garment Extravaganza is the place to get face-to-face with industry experts from leading companies, who will teach you about the newest stock designs, specialty hoops and frames, embroidery supplies, software, financing and more. All products are "hands-on" and presented from top-notch companies for two inspiration and information filled days.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to learn new techniques and network with hundreds of embroiderers in your area.

Attendees Include:

• New to embroidery and screen printing business
• Home Embroiderers
• Mid-size shop embroiderers
• Screen Printers
• Seamstress
• Hobbyists
• Entrepreneurs
• ASI members
• Promotional Product distributors
• Designers and other key industry professionals who rely on Embroidery and Screen Printing every day to make their living.

The is a perfect opportunity to meet with other decorators in your area and network.