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Custom Leather Patches

The Monterey Company is a premium manufacturer of custom leather patches. This is where quality and craftsmanship meet. The Monterey Company offers embossed, debossed, and leather engraving options to incorporate your logo onto leather's natural, rugged beauty. Our full-grain leather patches are best sellers for trucker hats, bags, jeans, and tactical or motorcycle vests.

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How to Order Custom Leather Patches

From idea to finished patch, producing leather patches is a piece of cake! Our customer sucess team is here to help at every turn.

Step 1: Select — Select the style of leather patch you prefer, and contact our sales team for a quick quote.

Step 2: Approve — Receive a sample proof to approve within 24 hours. Revisions are easy too! Just ask your customer service rep.

Step 3: Receive — You will receive a tracking number to track your package when the final products are finished.

Custom Leather Patch with a eagle crest

Leather Patch Options

Custom leather bear patch that has a GC North Company logo on it.

Custom Shapes

Leather patches can be produced in a custom shape. We offer everything from intricate cut-out shapes to simple shapes like circles and squares.

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Leather Color Options

A wide selection of leather colors are offered. Everything from classic shades of browns to unique dark greens and blues. If you prefer a specific color, just ask your customer service rep.

Custom Leather Patch for Harlan roofing

Debossed & Embossed

Embossing recesses the background, which raises your design and creates a three-dimensional look. The reverse is the debossing effect, where your logo is recessed into the leather surface.

Custom Woven Fish logo

Laser Engrave

A process that uses a laser beam to etch your design onto the surface of the leather patch, then laser cuts the patch to shape. Laser engraving allows for very intricate custom designs with minimal texture.

Additional Custom Leather Patch Options

custom leather patch 3M backing with eagle in the top left of the image.

Backing Options

We offer iron-on (heat applied) backing, peel-and-stick adhesive backing, hook-and-loop velcro, and no backing options. This blog article explains each patch backing style in depth.

Custom Leather Color RF Operations Patch

Printing Options

There are two printing styles with leather patch designs: simple screen printing over leather to add color onto leather or full-color UV print over leather.

Custom stitched leather patch with a tiger in a tree on the patch

Real Stitched Border

You can even add a real stitched border to your leather patches, oftentimes coupled with heat-applied backing to give an authentic stitched look.

Custom Metallic leather with a black background and blue text

Metallic & Glow-in-the-dark Print

Your leather patches can really stand out with metallic gold, silver or copper print. Or illuminate your patch with glow-in-the-dark print.

Application Options


Two main application methods with leather patches are sew-on and heat apply. When The Monterey Company produces custom leather patch hats in-house, we primarily sew on the leather patches unless the shape of the patch doesn’t allow for sewing. We find that sewing offers a long-lasting adherence.

You can heat-apply patches as well. We suggest using low heat and using a heat press with both top and bottom heat transfer options. Here's our suggested application instructions.


Frequently Asked Questions


Can you iron-on leather patches?

Yes, we can add heat apply leather patches. We suggest using low heat and a heat press that allows front and back heat. Our iron on patch page offers more information.

The minimum quantity to order is 50 for custom leather patches. We do offer outstanding quantity discount tiers. The production time is 10 to 18 business days, depending on our current production schedule. Be sure to sign up for our email list, and look out for first order and free shipping promos (United States only).

Yes, we do offer physical samples of your design, or we can send you a sample package of similar patches we have done for other customers. All we need is your shipping address. No charge. We do offer a free sample photo option as well.

Yes, ask your sales rep for a free sample photo option. We always provide digital proofs before your order goes into production as well.

We suggest sewing your custom leather patches to garments, especially when applying to custom hats. You can also heat-apply patches as well. Need more help? Check-out this blog: When to Sew and When to Iron-on Patches.

Debossing and embossing give a deeper impression to the leather, while engraving is faster and offers a burned-style technique. Check out this blog article explaining the difference: Debossed vs. Laser Engraved Leather Patches: Choosing the Right Custom Look.

Upload your design or custom logo into the request form. You will receive a digital proof to approve within one business day.

Yes! Leather patches can be color-filled onto the debossed areas, or we can print a design directly onto the leather.

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leather patch on hat panel

Why Choose Leather Patches?

Fashion trends come and go, but leather patches are timeless, sophisticated and will never go out of style. Over time, certain custom patch types can fade, and threads can get damaged, but leather patches age gracefully, even with regular use. Whether you are adding patches to outdoor gear or corporate polos, we see leather patches everywhere.

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Genuine Leather vs Faux Leather?

The Monterey Company offers two different leather materials: high quality faux (sometimes called PU or leatherette) and genuine leather patch materials, both have there positives and negatives.

Why Choose The Monterey Company?

The Monterey Company has been crafting custom leather patches for over 30 years! We have perfected leather production through our years of experience. Our order process, customer service, and production times are industry-leading. Don’t take our word for it, though! Take a look at our 5-star rating on Google Reviews.

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What Our Clients have said about us:

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We are proud to have over 500 5-star reviews from happy customers!

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Leah H. Middaugh

Patient Educator

"We've worked with Josh @ Monterey for a number of projects (PVC, Woven, Embroidery) and he always goes above and beyond to get it right for us. Consistency and superior quality are so important to us & they get it right."

James M. Collinsworth

Freelance Artist

"I couldn’t be happier with the excellent service provided by The Monterey Company. I recently needed a few custom patches made for our agency, and the entire process was absolutely seamless. We had a few color changes along the way, and Josh and his team handled them effortlessly."

Amber E. Smith

Event Coordinator


"I couldn’t be happier with the excellent service provided by The Monterey Company. I recently needed a few custom patches made for our agency, and the entire process was absolutely seamless. We had a few color changes along the way, and Josh and his team handled them effortlessly."