Trademark Class 26: Lace and Embroidery

Trademark Class 26 comes under the category of various ornaments and parts used for fasteners. This includes decorative items like ribbon, lace, braid, embroidery, buttons, artificial flowers, hooks and eyes, pins, needles, and anything like that. It safeguards these merely for their decorative and functional use.
Registration under Class 26 would only guarantee rights to your brand specifically regarding the embroidery and/or notions related to clothing. The registration therefore guards your offerings from unauthorized usage, from decorative trims ribbon and buttons to fasteners through functionality.
Class 26 protection is very important for the businesses engaged in the manufacture or distribution of fashion accessories and ornamentation, which thereby prevents competitors from encroaching on your market presence by consolidating the identity of the brand.
With renewable protection every 10 years, Class 26 ensures your mark remains safe and widely recognised for years to come.

Here are the Items under Class 26

Accessories for apparel, sewing articles and decorative textile articles	appliqués [haberdashery], badges for wear, not of precious metal, beads other than for making jewelry, belt clasps, binding needles, birds' feathers [clothing accessories], blouse fasteners/dress body fasteners, bobbins for retaining embroidery floss or wool [not parts of machines], bodkins, boxes for needles, braids, brassards/arm bands [clothing accessories], brooches [clothing accessories], buckles [clothing accessories], buttons, chenille [passementerie], collar supports, competitors' numbers, cords for clothing, cords for rimming, for clothing, corset busks/whalebones for corsets, darning needles, darning lasts, edgings for clothing, elastic ribbons, embroidering crochet hooks, embroidery/fancy goods [embroidery], expanding bands for holding sleeves, eyelets for clothing, false hems, fastenings for clothing/dress fastenings, fastenings for suspenders/fastenings for braces, feathers [clothing accessories], festoons [embroidery], frills [lacework], frills for clothing, fringes, gold embroidery, haberdashery, except thread, hat ornaments, not of precious metal, heat adhesive patches for repairing textile articles, hook and pile fastening tapes, hooks for corsets, hooks [haberdashery], knitting needles, lace for edgings, lace trimmings/passementerie, letters for marking linen, mica spangles, monogram tabs for marking linen/numerals or letters for marking linen, needle cushions, needle cases, needles, needles for wool combing machines, numerals for marking linen, ornamental novelty badges [buttons], ostrich feathers [clothing accessories], heat adhesive patches for decoration of textile articles [haberdashery], picot [lace], pin cushions, pins, other than jewelry [jewelry (Am.)], prize ribbons, reins for guiding children, ribbons [haberdashery], rosettes [haberdashery], rug hooks, saddlers' needles, sewing boxes, sewing thimbles, sewing needles, shoe ornaments, not of precious metal, shoe eyelets, shoe fasteners, shoe hooks, shoe buckles, shoe laces, shoemakers' needles, shoulder pads for clothing, shuttles for making fishing nets, silver embroidery, skirt flounces, snap fasteners, spangles for clothing, tapes for curtain headings, tassels [haberdashery], tinsels [trimmings for clothing]/orsedew [trimmings for clothing], top-knots [pompoms], trimmings for clothing, trouser clips for cyclists, woolen laces, zip fasteners/slide fasteners [zippers]/zippers, zippers for bags/zip fasteners for bags.
Hair ornaments, hair rollers, hair fastening articles, and false hair	barrettes [hair-slides], bows for the hair, false beards, false hair, false moustaches, hair bands, hair grips [slides]/slides [hair grips], hair ornaments, hair curling pins, hair pins, hair nets, hair curling papers, hair extensions, hair coloring caps/hair coloring caps, hair curlers, other than hand implements, human hair, plaited hair/tresses of hair, toupees, wigs.
Artificial fruit, flowers and vegetables	artificial flowers, artificial fruit, artificial garlands, artificial plants, wreaths of artificial flowers.

Related (Coordinated) Classes: Class 23 - Yarns and Threads, Class 24 - Textiles, Class 35 - Advertising and Business Services, and Class 42 - Science and Technology Services.

NOTE: Class 26 is NOT used if you are registering:

yarns and threads for textile -- use

FAQ's

Class 26 includes a broad range of decorative and functional items used in clothing and textile applications, such as lace, embroidery, ribbons, braid, buttons, hooks and eyes, needles, pins, and artificial flowers.

Yes, all types of buttons, hooks and eyes, zippers, and other clothing fasteners can be trademarked under Class 26, provided they are used as garment accessories.

Sewing, darning, and knitting needles fall under Class 26, along with other related sewing articles like thimbles and needle cases.

Decorative items such as artificial flowers and novelty badges (not made of precious metal) used for clothing or decorative purposes are included in Class 26.

Hair ornaments, barrettes, hair bands, and similar hair accessories are covered under Class 26.

Appliqués and other haberdashery items used for decorating textiles and garments, such as patches and decorative trimmings, are included in Class 26.

Fabric labels used for branding or marking textiles and garments can be registered in Class 26.

No distinction is made between lace and embroidery in Class 26; both are considered decorative textile arts suitable for trademark registration within this class.