Streamline your Embroidery Business with Automation

The Embroidery Web API is Wilcom's embroidery automation software tool kit. It enables embroidery and apparel companies to add embroidery capabilities to their custom web sites, web applications, and internal business systems by calling the API to do embroidery specific tasks.

Compatible with all version .EMB designs from Wilcom digitizing software up to e4/4.1, The Wilcom API enables you to go from order to production stitch data automatically. It creates TrueView simulation images and production-ready stitch data for existing embroidery designs, plus personalized lettering, re-coloring existing designs, or create new lettering, monograms, and team names. Output to .EMB, .DST and other popular machine stitch data formats.

Hassle Free, Hosted Subscription Web Service

The Embroidery Web API is provided as a hassle-free hosted solution available through affordable and budget-friendly subscription plans. Hosted in the US and other select countries with Amazon Web Services, you can have confidence in both speed and reliability.

How it works

The Wilcom Embroidery Web API uses a modern RESTful API interface. It does not provide the user interface, but by using an assigned unique Application ID and Application Key, your web application will make calls to the API using simple http: URLs, passing designs and parameters back and forth in .XML data packets.

Your web application will display the results and control the end-users experience.

Extensive Integration Documentation to Create your Own Web Application

As a subscriber you, have direct access to our extensive developer portal that contains all the integration documentation you or your developer needs to integrate with the Wilcom Embroidery Web API.

Starting with a free API trial and demonstration plan, you and your team have the opportunity to learn and explore the capabilities.

To showcase the capabilities, you can also access the array of concept web applications and source code

Embroidery Web API Capabilities

Visualize embroidery designs as TrueView images

• creates .PNG image files scaled accurately to real embroidery size
• selectable resolution of 96- 300DPI
• transparent background to display on any color web page or garment image
• select EMB colorway to view, or get images of all colorways in .EMB designs

Get design and color information

• size, stitches, colors, stops, trims, thread colors, multiple colorways, stop sequence color list

Re-color existing designs

• upload a new set of thread colors to replace existing design colors
• specify thread colors for .DST and other formats which don't have color info

Create embroidery lettering

• specify text, alphabet, height, and color. Single or multiple lines
• from a selection of 205 digitized Wilcom alphabets. Add custom fonts
• specify many parameters – baseline types, bold, italics, etc

Add new lettering to existing designs

• create new lettering and add to existing designs
• specify the relative position of the designs to be combined

Edit lettering in existing designs

• automatically edit lettering objects in .EMB designs - text, color, font, height
• handles multiple lettering objects in the design
• custom lettering & stitching parameters are set by your .EMB design

Create team name lettering

• Specify a list of names, and basic team name parameters
• Lettering by itself or combined with an existing design

Create new & edit monograms

• Choose from 16 monogram styles, with or without ornaments
• Instant creative personalization

Save & convert embroidery design formats

• save designs in .EMB design formats from e2, e3, e4, e4.1
• convert .EMB to stitch data .DST, .U01, .U03, .EXP, .TAP, .TBF, etc

Preview customer artwork on garments

• preview vector or bitmap artwork
• creates .PNG with transparent background to display on garment