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A collection of custom patches that all have different backings for you to choose from.

How To Choose The Right Backing For Your Custom Patches

11 March 2025

Choosing the proper backing for your custom patches can be all the difference between an awesome product your clients love and one that…

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A collection of five challenge coins for military groups, emergency services, and for collecting.

What is a Challenge Coin? History, Purpose & Creating Your Own

9 March 2025

Challenge coins are small custom coins or medallions, often featuring an organization's insignia, that hold significant meaning, particularly…

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A collection of enamel pins with designs that promote mental health positivity.

Mental Health Pin Badge Ideas for Feel-Good Merch

10 January 2025

Now more than ever, it's essential that we look after our (and each other's) mental health. Here's how we've helped some of our clients make…

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A collection of customer merch that you can update for the new year.

New Year, New Merch: Updating Your Products for 2025

8 January 2025

The dawn of a new year brings fresh opportunities. For businesses, it's a chance to revamp product lines, boost marketing efforts, or raise…

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A pile of Made by Cooper branded boxes and envelopes surrounded by pin badges to show people how and why packaging for pin badges is essential.

Packaging Enamel Pins - Tips From The Experts

16 October 2024

For most people, enamel pins are fun items to wear for many reasons. But to pin badge designers, manufacturers, and sellers, they're how we…

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A collection of masonic jewels, pin badges, and cufflinks to celebrate the brotherhood of freemasonry.

Create Masonic Pins & Freemason Cufflinks

30 September 2024

Over the years, we've become the go-to manufacturers for Masonic lodges that want to design, create, and craft beautiful Masonic pin badges…

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How To Create Running Medals For Your Race

25 September 2024

Make sure the runners participating in your event are rewarded for their fantastic efforts with fantastic medals. Find out more.

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A collection of pronoun badges for he/him, she/her, they/them, he/they, she/they pronouns.

Pin Your Flag To The Mast With Pronoun Badges

14 August 2024

So, how can we minimize this painful misgendering without having to continually enter social situations and repeat ourselves over and over…

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A grey backpack covered in brightly coloured pin badges sits on a wooden floor against a white wall backdrop. The sun creates a warm feeling around the bag.

Is it a Good Idea to Put Pins on a Backpack?

7 August 2024

It’s a fantastic idea to put pins on your backpack. Displaying enamel badges on your rucksack separates it from all the dull and mundane bags…

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A collection of classic lapel pins and enamel badges to highlight the differences.

Lapel Pin vs Enamel Pin - What’s the Difference?

29 July 2024

If you're into collecting pin badges or are thinking about designing your own pins, you've probably heard the terms "lapel pin" and "enamel…

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