Do a google search for leather .
Look for garment weight in the description.
Susan
"Slow down. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel
too fast and you miss all you are traveling for". - "Ride the Dark
Trail" by Louis L'Amour
On Apr 25, 2006, at 10:51 PM, A. Thurman wrote:
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:07:10 -0500
From: "E House" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: working with leather, Firefly browncoat
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The only two things I've found to worry about with leather are:
A) The thickness of the leather, & making sure that your sewing
machine can
handle it--for the browncoat, I used suede that was nearly 1/8 thick,
and
though my machine actually was capable of handling 5 layers of it, it
caused
all sorts of problems. (But it was the only suede I could find in
the right
color, darn it!) You just can't finish thick suede as nicely as you
can
finish garment-weight (~1.5oz-3oz) suede, and you'll find yourself
calling
the ruttin' coat a piece of gos se often, dong le mah?
So I'm looking for something specifically designated garment weight?
That's one of my big concerns - how do I choose a leather or suede,
and how do I make sure I get enough of it? I imagine it's sold by hide
and not yardage, correct?
B) Getting the seam right the first time. Any hole you make in the
leather
won't close back up again the way fabric would, so ty to aviod
ripping out
and re-sewing seams--it'll be obvious, and it will weaken the leather.
I have enough experience with PVC to know about the hole punch thing,
but not about the thread (below). Thanks for the tip (and you too
Chiana!)
Also thanks for the browncoats.com links - it's good to see that
there's enough of a community out there for there to be some legwork
already done :)
Also, though a lot of people seem to like to use upholstery thread
with
leather, I didn't like the result at all; I used glazed cotton hand
quilting
thread, and it worked very well.
-E House
Allison T.
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