The chamois that I've seen is yellow, and has a suede-like surface.
I know people like to use chamois because they can find it easily and
it's thin (nicer for hand stitching).
Or do you mean something different for chamois - is it available
white and with a smooth surface?
I think the identity problem is with manufacturers taking a name for a
specific thing and using it for a wide variety of other, similar things.
Unless I'm mistaken, a "true" Chamois is fine, absorbent leather made from
the skin of a kind of mountain goat (with the same name, I think) and it's
usually very light cream colored (and very expensive). People didn't buy
them to polish their Chevy, they used them on their Lamborghini. :-) The
yellow leather chamois polishing pieces sold in mass-market stores are
inexpensive because they are not Chamois -- they are similar in use to
Chamois: polishing your Ford. Absorbent chamois with a small "c" I suppose.
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I'm looking for information on how to make something I
think is called Arrowhead Reinforcement. It's a
finishing technique where the top of a slit (usually
on shirt tails, I think) is reinforced at the end by a
hand stitched arrowhead style design.
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I've seen these on western shirts at each end of a breast pocket. Sometimes
they are machine embroidered (simple straight lines with the wide end over
edge of the slit) but usually they are small triangles of felt or leather
that are machine stitched over each end of the slit.
hope that helps
Denise
Iowa
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