To provide the subject embroidering machine designed to clearly express a contour flanked on a patterned cloth without damaging a base fabric even for a wear article manufactured at a reduced cost through performing an automatic needle punching by the aid of a needle punching needle replaced for an embroidery lace needle by electronic control operation.

In a multihead-type electronic embroidering machine disposed with a plurality of heads, in parallel to one another, each equipped with plural sets of yarn feed sections, embroidery lace needles and needle drives, respectively, and having an embroidery frame holding embroidery cloths arranged correspondingly to the respective heads and a control section for embroidering the above cloths with specified shapes and colors through driving both the heads and embroidering frames according to entered embroidery pattern information, needle punching needles 8 are provided in place of part of the embroidery needles and needle punching information with which both the heads and embroidery frames are driven to perform needle punching operation with specified shapes are inputted into the control section, and according to the above information, the embroidery cloths are subjected to needle punching.