Design Belt Calligraphy

[kiai]

Hi guys,

Is anybody aware of a website where you can effectively "design" your own belt with the golden calligraphy? I'd love to make a kick-*** looking black belt online that I'd like to get once I earn it There are other sites which allow custom t-shirts and stuff, but haven't found any that you can do belts with..

Ta!

 

[SahBumNimRush]

There are several places you can get custom embroidery on your belt with. What style do you practice? Are you looking for "top quality" belts?

Bear Brand makes a high quality belt that you can get embroidered. They can embroider in English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, and they come in a couple different widths. They will also do translations for you if you do not know the languages.

http://www.bearbrandinc.com/Custom-Embroidery_ep_28.html

They aren't "cheap" though, I had to get a new belt once I earned my masters (5th Dan) and it was around $65. However, that could be due to my rank and the width of the belt. They can quote you better than I can.

 

[ralphmcpherson]

I bought my belt from a martial arts supplies store and took it to an embroider who just works from home, she did a great job and put my club name in english on one side and my name in korean on the other and the whole lot cost me about $50 and the best part was that the lot got done in under 24 hours. I found that "martial arts" embroidery seems to cost more than normal embroidery for some reason and seems to take ages. My advice is find a good local embroider and bring the belt to them, quality job done cheap and quick.

 

[bushidomartialarts]

MTI Trading will translate it for you in Chinese, Japanese (kanji/katakana/hiragana) or Korean. You can just tell them what you want it to say, and they'll do the rest.

 

[kiai]

Thanks for the responses guys, I'll look into these.

Right now though really, I'm just looking for a way to mess about and create a "mock" belt that I could get in future once I've earned it - I was hoping for some sort of site analogous to zazzle.co.uk, but for karate belts instead of t-shirts, but I guess photoshop will probably do really!