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North Apparel

In 1977, Northwest Embroidery was founded almost by accident by Jim Mickelson. When Jim came up with the idea to sell embroidered caps to fellow pipeline employees, he was travelling from Washington to Alaska every other week as an administration manager for the Alaska Pipeline. When his trial run of 300 caps sold out in three days, he knew he was on to something when he originally sewed all the patches himself. It wasn't until I started making more money selling hats than working for Atlantic Richfield that I started filling all this space on my plane with hats. I hauled hats up there and sold them until I started making more money than I was earning working for Atlantic Richfield." Our services are direct to garments, and screen printing seattle