Hi Carol.
Thanks for your informations. I didnt know that some bones were anchored to
the channels.
Wiessner boning is hard plastic, but you actually can sew trough it with a
strong sewing needle on the machine.
But i plan to bind all the edges by hand, i also sewed all the sections
together by hand. I cant do it on a machine, because i use bones in all the
channels of the tabs, and it s very difficult to control the sewingmachine
on top of the bones.
Its a comission and i think i just want to bind the edges with ivory silk
taffeta i have. I dont have the time to find kid, and i think i would have
to praktise a lot with it before i use it on a pair of stays.
But thanks all for helping me with the questions i had about kid skin.
Bjarne
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Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] kid leather & binding stays
I doubt you would need a leather needle to sew Kid, but you might get one
just in case....for the machine I mean. And since it stretches a bit, if
you have a walking foot...one with "feed dogs" to move the fabric on top
as well as underneath, you might find that helpful. This assuming you're
doing it by machine.
If you plan to bind it by hand....never mind...
There is that small matter of the boning...
I did do a binding on lightly boned stays by machine - stitch for two
inches, skip the 1/4 inch over the bone, stitch another 2"... then I
went back and hand-stitched where the bones were.
The idea, of course, is to enclose the end of the bone in leather,
otherwise it will wear and poke through just below the leather.
I suppose with light plastic boning you can sew right through it, but
the Wissner is a harder plastic. I'm not sure you could put a needle
through it without breaking the plastic, even if you have an
industrial machine that could sew through it!
By the way, some original stays have a single stitch through each
bone (whalebone) about an inch from the top and an inch from the
bottom to anchor it in the channel and keep it from sliding.
-Carol
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