Cowichan Souvenir Co.

Cowichan Souvenir & Apparel Co.

The West Coast,one stitch at a time.

Wholesale apparel programs for Canadian gift shops: destination artwork drawn in-house, embroidered on garments that hold up, and replenished before the rack goes bare.

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From the shop floor

Racks that sell the room before the customer crosses it.

Embroidered souvenir tees folded on the flat display rack
flat rack, folded face-out
Souvenir apparel wall in a gift shop, colour-blocked by destination
colour-blocked wall
Close view of destination embroidery on a heather tee
destination artwork
Gondola display stocked with embroidered hats and fleece
gondola, hats and fleece
Table display of embroidered souvenirs arranged by size run
table set, full size run
Wide view of a souvenir shop apparel section at opening
the full floor

Everything above is a working display in a partner store, not a render. The photography is ours, the racks are ours, and the sell-through numbers behind them are why more than a thousand Canadian retailers reorder every season.


How a program runs

Drawn, stitched, sold. In that order, every season.

Victoria Canada destination artwork: two orcas over hand-lettered type, stitched out in thread

Artwork made for the town the shop lives in

Destination graphics start in-house: orca, moose, bears, wordmarks, drawn and digitized by our own artists. When a buyer in Banff and a buyer in Tofino order the same bear, each one gets their mountain, their coastline, their name.

Embroidery head laying stitches into a hooped garment on the production floor

Embroidery that survives the wash, at production scale

We have run commercial embroidery since 2003. Modern multi-head machines, 40-weight polyester thread, and a quality check on every run keep stitch number one identical to stitch nine hundred thousand.

Double-unit flat display rack stocked with embroidered tees

Displays built for sell-through, restocked before you call

Our flat rack shows the full embroidery face-out instead of a folded sleeve, holds the size run underneath, and resets in minutes. Reorders ship on standing schedules so a hot colour never leaves a hole in the wall.


The 2026 colour card

Pick the colour. The garment is already on our shelf.

Indigo

style UTTR · garment dye #4d5a96 · 40wt polyester thread

12 stock garment dyes in the 2026 card. The artwork shown is a real stitch-out on that dye, not a print mockup.

stitch-out preview
Destination artwork stitched out on Indigo garment dye, style UTTR

Care & content

Founded
Est. 2003 · Vancouver BC
Customers
1000+ retail doors across Canada
Ownership
Canadian owned & operated
Materials
40wt polyester thread
Colours
12 stock garment colours

Machine wash cold · reorder warm

Planning next season? Talk to a person who knows the racks.