High Quality Embossed Hang Tags for Garments

An emboss hang tag is the quietest way to put a brand on a garment. There is no ink and no foil on this one: the shield, the monogram and the two leaping rabbits are pressed into thick white cotton paper with a matched male and female die, so the design stands up from the sheet as a raised relief you can feel through a plastic bag. Because nothing is printed, the colour of the tag is the colour of the paper itself – a warm, uncoated cotton white with visible fibre – and it stays that way, where printed or foiled tags can scuff, crack or tarnish with handling. The tag shown here is a 90 x 55 mm portrait rectangle with a single punched hole at the top for cord, ribbon or a safety pin, and it is the format most of our apparel customers order for denim, knitwear, outerwear and boutique retail. The same die can be run again for reorders, so a label that switches collection twice a year still gets an identical impression.

✅ Blind Emboss, No Ink at All

The image is raised from the paper itself, not printed onto it. A matched die presses the sheet between a male and a female counter-die, so the shape rises 0.3-0.8 mm above the surface with a crisp bevel and a shadow line that reads even in flat lighting. Nothing can peel, fade or rub off, which is why blind emboss survives the handling a garment tag gets in a fitting room.

✅ Thick Cotton (Rag) Paper Board

Cotton board is made from cotton linters rather than wood pulp: long fibres, no coating, a soft handle and a visibly fibrous surface. It holds a deep impression without cracking or showing the die edge through the back, and it takes a fold, a punch and a thread without tearing. We stock 600 to 1200 gsm white and natural boards, and heavier duplexed stock for a tag with real substance in the hand.

✅ White, Natural or Coloured Stock

Blind emboss works on any uncoated stock, so the tag can be warm natural white, bright white, cream, kraft or a dyed cotton board. On dark stock the same die gives a subtler, almost tonal effect – tell us which direction you want and we will send board samples before the die is cut.

✅ Single Punched Hole or Slot

A round 5 mm hole (shown here), a rounded slot for flat ribbon, or a drilled hole positioned to your spec. Threading options include cotton cord, satin ribbon, elastic, a safety pin or a plastic barb, and we can supply the tag strung or loose.

✅ Combination Finishes

Emboss is often paired with blind deboss, hot foil, edge painting, rounded corners or a second die-cut shape. A common layout is the logo embossed on the front and size, composition and care symbols blind debossed on the back, so the whole tag stays ink-free and recyclable as one paper item.

✅ Fully Customizable

Size, shape, board weight, paper tone, emboss depth, hole position and threading are all made to order. Send artwork, a sketch or a physical sample and we will advise the die size, the depth that suits your board and the most cost-effective layout for your quantity.

Factory-direct production with low minimum order quantities supported, so an independent label can order embossed hang tags without paying for an industrial-sized run. Quotes come back within 24 hours with the board, the emboss die and the punching priced separately, and a pre-production sample is confirmed with you before mass production starts – emboss depth and die detail are judged on that sample, because neither can be read from a PDF. Artwork is checked by our team before the die is cut, so fine lines and counters are corrected at the artwork stage rather than after the tooling is paid for. Lead times stay stable for repeat orders, the die is kept for your next collection, and fast delivery is available for showroom and launch dates. If you are weighing emboss against foil on the same layout, we can quote both on the same artwork so the comparison is like for like.

Please supply vector files (AI / EPS / PDF) with all fonts converted to outlines and the emboss area on its own layer. Blind emboss needs a counter-die, so every shape must be closed and self-supporting: keep the minimum stroke at roughly 0.4 mm at final size and avoid type smaller than about 7 pt, because thin lines have no wall to stand up in paper. Fine hairlines, hairline serifs and one-pixel gaps between shapes fill in or tear during embossing – a slightly bolder, simplified version of a fine logo embosses far better than the original. Emboss dies are engraved, so very small text costs the same as large text; if budget is tight, simplify the artwork rather than shrink it. Keep all live elements at least 4 mm inside the die-cut edge and 6 mm clear of the punched hole. Cotton board shows the impression on the reverse side to some degree. If the back must stay blank we reduce the depth or specify a heavier stock; if you want the reverse to carry artwork, we engrave a second die and press an independent motif there – that is how the sample shown here is made, with a shield on the front and a winged mark on the back, both blind. If you only have a low-resolution JPG or PNG, our team will review it and tell you what needs to be redrawn before the die is made.