I started an embroidery experiment seeing what kind of design will result from using a thickish single line, single colour and resulting in a nice badge.
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Some of the designs immediately lent itself to wanting to appear on a cap, so i thought it would be cool to do a limited edition dadcap line. So El Capo was born. Meaning "the boss" and since it's from Cape Town and the Cap part of it, it seemed that it can be the only possible name.
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the four final designs chosen:
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the final products:
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thanks for watching