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amuckart
Location: Wellington
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 Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:53 pm |
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[quote="wuzzle and mandy"]
Hi all I thought I would jump in at this point
have got several grades of irish made thread
made from proper linen X upolstery manufacture
If it's for upholstery manufacture it's probably plied rather than single strand. It'll be usable, but not for making tapered waxed ends for use with bristles and it won't wax as well as single-strand dry-spun, which is the really hard stuff to get hold of these days.
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also pester jeremy (dawson) at taupo if you get
this thread on time before taupo as he is one
of the few shoe/boot GURUS we have in our
community
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Is he on this forum? Can you PM me his email address? I'm always keen to find other shoe geeks, especially ones in this country.
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as far as I know much leather work of period origen was "pre holed" prior to stitching later moving to "flesh stitching" only after metal needles were developed |
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Metal needles existed in the middle ages, shoemakers just didn't use them (though glovers and tailors etc did). In shoemaking all holes for hand stitching are pre-holed with an awl, usually one at a time just before the stitch is made. This holds true whether or not you are using needles or waxed ends and bristles.
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Al Muckart. Shoe geek.
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Keeghan_M
Location: Wellington
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