You'll make a great impression with your company's logo on L.L.Bean products. Custom embroidery, available online, is our most popular type of personalization. Monogramming, engraving and screen printing are available by phone order only. Our advanced digital equipment lets us combine the precision of computer scanning with the seasoned skill of our expert needleworkers. With each step, we take the time to provide you with the quality you expect from L.L.Bean. You may use up to nine colors of thread, which we can help you choose. To ensure that the colors in your logo will come out exactly as you want them, provide us with the Pantone®/PMS color values. As part of the order process, we'll send an electronic file of your logo, followed by a sewn sample for your approval. To ensure that the representation and color are correct, the sample fabric will be similar to the fabric of the product you're ordering. Please note If we have your logo on file we will deduct the embroidery setup fee.
In order to save your logo to your account you should upload it. Now you can see a preview of your uploaded or saved logo on most of our best-selling products. This feature is available for the most popular placements on products such as shirts, jackets, polos and luggage to give you an idea of how your logo will look on the selected color of the product. This is only a preview so if the placement or logo quality isn't quite what you expected, you'll still have a chance to approve it before we sew it. If the Logo Preview feature is not available for the product or placement you selected, you will only see your logo without the product. Example of logo on product where logo preview is available for Placement A: Example of logo on product where logo preview is not available for Placement A: To help you decide where you would like to place your logo, please refer to our Logo Placement Guide by clicking on the following link: Download the Guide. If we have your logo on file, we will deduct the embroidery setup fee.
In order to save your logo to your account, you should upload it. We can accept a logo file up to 2 mb. We prefer vector artwork in EPS or PDF format. We will also accept logo files in the following formats: PNG, GIF, TIF, PSD, JPG, BMP. Please only send us logos you have the legal right to use. Once your order is complete, your uploaded logo will be saved for use on future orders. First-time orders usually have two stages: setting up the logo and then applying the logo to merchandise. Logo setup usually takes about a week; logo application and order processing takes about two weeks. Repeat orders are generally shipped in eight business days. Logo Application Fees (per item, per location when ordering six or more of the same item): Logo Application Fees (per item, per location, when ordering five or fewer of the same item): Please note that most embroidered logos require fewer than 10,000 stitches. We offer several styles of monogramming for displaying a name or initials.
Choose from the styles shown below. Maximum 10 characters per line. Monogramming is not available online. Please call us at 800-554-4071 to monogram your products. Engrave your company name or logo and make a lasting impression. We offer engraving on several items, such as our Bean Canteen. Engraving is not available online. Please call us at 800-554-4071 to engrave your products. Note: Some items may require a higher minimum for customization. Screen printing is an alternative personalization method available for a limited selection of products, including luggage, T-shirts and waterproof outerwear. Screen printing is not available online. Please call us at 800-554-4071 to screen print your products. Note: Some items may require a higher minimum for customization.Labor Day seems a fitting day to pay tribute to America’s talented woodworkers. We asked the manufacturer of L.L.Bean’s Classic Wooden Adirondack Chair, to tell us about the history and inspiration for this chair – a perennial customer favorite.
Guest blog by Luke Eriksen and Nathaniel Gibson: Over the past century, the Adirondack chair has become a classic piece of American outdoor furniture. Originally conceived as a fairly basic design in the early 1900s in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, it has been redesigned in numerous styles with various features. The Adirondack chairs that L.L.Bean offers today incorporate the best of these refinements to make it convenient and comfortable, while still holding true to its distinct American heritage. The design for L.L.Bean’s Classic Wooden Adirondack Chair originated with Clifford Pierce and his Vermont furniture company during the early 1980s. A decorated veteran as well as an entrepreneur – he had already founded a successful steel-crafting business prior to founding his woodworking company – Cliff became interested in Adirondack chairs during summers spent with his family at their lakefront camp on Lake George in New York. While taking boat rides on the lake, “the boys” and Cliff would pass by various old family estates that had Adirondack chairs on their property, set by campfire pits or on sprawling front yards and, most iconically, on docks.
There were many styles and most appeared aged and worn, falling apart over just a couple seasons. Cliff reckoned it was because they were made out of pine and scrap crates, which were the common materials used for Adirondack chairs at the time. After learning of Cliff’s interest in the chairs, a friend and neighbor at the lake happily gave Cliff one of his Adirondack chairs to study and reference dimensions. Thus began his company’s development of the Adirondack chair. The timing was excellent. Previously, Cliff’s company had focused on making smaller wood products, such as towel holders and spice racks, but during the early 1980s the company transitioned to producing larger furniture pieces. The Adirondack chair fit in perfectly with this transition. The chair given to Cliff was extra large and made out of softwood. The design had a lot of support pieces and very wide arms. The back of the chair was comprised of many narrow slats. It was also very low, so when you slid down into the seat, it was comfortable, but hard to get out of!
So Cliff and the company woodworkers set about improving on the design. Early on it was decided that the chairs should be foldable. Easy storage was a key feature in Cliff’s mind as he had seen too many prematurely weathered and dilapidated chairs on the docks and shores of Lake George. Unlike bulkier designs that were a hassle to move and took up too much space to store inside easily, the folding design did not take up as much space and encouraged customers to keep the chairs inside over the winter. The initial design developed by Cliff had slats that were all the same width, including the seat legs. The chair featured narrower arms in an effort to keep the price competitive with similar wood furniture pieces imported by foreign manufacturers. When all was said and done, Cliff had reviewed over 10 different styles of Adirondack Chairs from the Lake George area. The Adirondack Chair designed by Cliff was introduced at the Chicago Housewares Trade Show in 1984. L.L.Bean and Cliff had met at the previous year’s show and L.L.Bean was already selling a folding camp table that Cliff’s company had designed.
When the folks from L.L.Bean saw the Adirondack Chair, they knew that it was going to be a hit, although with a few changes. They asked for the design to be made a bit more traditional, with wider arms and seat legs, and a tapered back. “But,” they told us, “keep that folding idea!” From this collaboration, L.L.Bean’s Adirondack Chair was born, debuting in their catalog during the spring of 1985. Over the years it has become famous for its quality solid wood construction, durability and ease of storage, and remains the perfect finishing touch for beach and lake houses, porches, decks, patios and many other outdoor spaces. Cliff’s company has continued to design and manufacture the chairs in the USA exclusively for L.L.Bean to this day. We think that if Cliff were out on a lake today, he would be pleased to see that in the place of many of the weathered hulks that initially inspired him are the Adirondack chairs that he helped create, still in good condition thanks to their durable, folding design.