These days, everyone can use additional income, so what better time to start a home-based embroidery business with our PR Series Embroidery Machines. This is not a franchise or get-rich-quick scheme, but your chance to join those who have made money from a home-based embroidery business or by adding embroidery services to an existing business.
Are you looking for extra income?
How about adding an embroidery offering to your existing business, or why not start your own home-based embroidery venture?
The state-of-the-art PR Series Embroidery Machines for Business are designed to give you the basic equipment to become your own boss, with the flexibility to fit most work places from a spare bedroom to a workshop or retail environment
Why embroidery? Why Brother?
Here are the only three reasons you’ll need:

Personalise and customise
Offering a customisation service means you can give your customers something unique, bespoke and totally personal to them.

Value-added service
Offering in-house on-the-spot personalisation makes you fast and flexible, giving you the competitive advantage.

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Brother PR Series Embroidery Machines have been recognised as market leaders for quality of output. This doesn’t mean they’re expensive, or hard to use – quite the opposite. We design our machines to be easy to afford and easy-to-use. New staff can master basic usage in just 1.5 hours!
Why start your own embroidery business?
With so many benefits to starting a home business, the question is why not?
- Choose your hours, work part-time or full time, on weekends or while the kids are at school
- Choose the best location for you, either at home or in a commercial or retail space or even mobile for events and trade shows
- Choose the level of investment that suits you
- You can even choose your customers or area of embroidery such as sports clubs, interior decorating or corporate clothing and more.


Why add embroidery to your existing business offering?
From monograming a formal shirt to adding team logos, offering a personalisation service lets you add value to the items you sell.
Modern customers want things turning around quickly. Offering an in-house embroidery service makes you fast, flexible and a one-stop shop for all your customers’ needs.
What can you embroider?
Transform everyday items into truly bespoke products:
- Embroider caps, athletic bags and shirts for local sports teams
- Monogram shirts, aprons and uniforms for businesses
- Personalise baby blankets and bibs
- Monogram towels, robes and napkins for wedding or anniversary gifts
- Personalise dog collars and other pet accessories
- Create an endless variety of unique and profitable gift items
The possibilities are endless with Brother embroidery machines!
* Additional frame purchase may be required for some items listed above






Which embroidery machine is right for your business?
Our product line-up is simple. Embroidery machines with ten, six or one needle. But embroidery is not only about needle numbers.
Have a look through our line-up to see which machine fits best with your business objectives. Look through our impressive line-up here.

PR1055X
10 needle embroidery machine
The PR1055X incorporates ten needles to give you a much wider range of colours. Coupled with an extra-large embroidery area of 360 x 200mm and InnovEye intelligent camera positioning sensor, the PR1055X offers increased versatility and precision for hobbyist or entrepreneur. So, what’s your side? Creative or Business?

PR680WC
6 needle embroidery machine
The PR680WC 6-Needle Embroidery machine is the first-choice machine for those wishing to go pro. Wireless capabilities, industrial speed acceleration, more built-in designs, more editing options and a large 300 x 200mm embroidery area, make it perfect for anyone thinking of starting a home-based embroidery business.

VR
Single needle embroidery machine
Designed to deliver the most intricate embroidery with a crisp, accurate finish, this high-speed embroidery machine also quickly converts into a free-motion quilting machine. Built with Brother’s 100+ years of expertise, the VR lets you easily personalise everything from towels and clothes to bags, shoes and dog collars.
Luminaire Innov-Is XP1
Not ready to take the leap to a multi-needle but you need a machine that helps you get the job done? The Luminaire XP1 may be right for you. This top-of-the-line sewing, embroidery and quilting machine is packed with time-saving features and great options for expanded creativity, including new quilting innovations.


PE-Design 11 Embroidery Software
PE-Design 11 Embroidery and Sewing Software is packed with powerful and time-saving features. This software is for both the casual hobbyist or the home-based business entrepreneur. Imagine the ability to create your own fonts, stitches and designs once to use many times on hats, pillows, shirts and more.
Help reduce the amount of time spent changing threads by using the Intelligent Colour Sort feature that will stitch the areas that share one colour in groups.
Contact us to take the next step for your embroidery business

Meet our Embroidery Entrepreneurs powering their passion with Brother
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A passion for embroidery turned into a thriving business
Daphne Coveney-Winter and Tinomia Gradidge are the mother and daughter team behind the gorgeous BabaToeks range of bespoke baby apparel, based in Cape Town. Born out of necessity in 2020, BabaToeks is their perfect outlet for creative passion and a much needed income stream.

From hand sewn masks to a range of custom designs
Richard Melvill, a full time IT Engineer in Umdloti is making a name for himself in the South African beach town with his part-time business of handmade clothing, bags and accessories. dOPe Customs specialises in embroidery, sublimation, stickers and branding and can be found on Instagram and Facebook.