AEROTRADITION embroidery machine mid-stitch

The workshop · Provence · since 2018

A workshop.
Not a factory.

Here, your insignia passes through hands — the ones that draw the proof, check every piece, and close the box. Here is how we work, and who we work for.

Who makes your insignia

One artisan, an order book full of squadrons, zero middlemen.

AEROTRADITION is an independent workshop in Provence, fifteen minutes from Orange-Caritat Air Base 115. Since 2018 we have been making the patches, coins, name tapes and goodies of French Air & Space Force squadrons, naval aviation, army aviation and aerospace companies.

You talk directly to the person handling your order — by email or WhatsApp, from first sketch to parcel. No sales department, no ticket queue: the traditions office writes, we answer, and the proof ships within 48 hours.

We owe you transparency: design studio, proofs, laser engraving, t-shirts, quality control and logistics are done in-house. Depending on the technique (3D PVC moulding, enamel striking), specific production steps go to partner workshops that do those operations better than we would — then every run comes back through our hands, piece by piece, before shipping. That is how an independent workshop holds both quality and price.

They order — and reorder

Our best advertising: the squadrons that come back.

640+

orders delivered since 2018

20+

orders from Flottille 11F alone

15+

orders from EC 1/5 Vendée

48 h

to receive your free proof

Flottille 11FEC 1/5 Vendée — BA 115ECE 1/30 Côte d'ArgentBA 116 LuxeuilEC 1/4 GascogneEC 2/4 La FayetteEC 1/3 Navarre3rd RHCDassault AviationSafranSee the case studies →

How it works

From message to parcel, in four steps.

You tell us

A sketch, a crest, or just an idea by email or WhatsApp. No clean file needed: our studio vectorises.

We draw — free

Proof within 48 h, adjusted as many times as needed. Nothing goes to production without your sign-off.

We make

3 to 4 weeks depending on technique. Every piece is checked at the workshop before boxing.

We deliver

Tracked shipping free in mainland France. Overseas ops and international quoted on the estimate — we have shipped to theatre before.

Checking patches one by one at the workshop

What we guarantee

Four commitments, kept across 640 orders.

The proof is free, always
The visual proof and its revisions cost you nothing — even if the project doesn't go ahead.
Your mould is kept
Identical restock with a one-line message: files and moulds stay on hand. BA 116 reordered the same patch three times in a season.
Quality control in France, piece by piece
Nothing ships without passing through our hands at the workshop — one reason squadrons come back.
Free shipping in mainland France, deployments possible
Tracked shipping included in France. We have shipped patches and coins to deployed units before.

Fresh out of the workshop