Thanks all! I'll search out a milinery needle & have a go. And yes, Lynn, it's pretty heavy & dense gold military style braid on a heavily sized, wool felt tricorn, so you're right, the beading needles tremble at the thought. I'm using gold colored silk thread as that appears to be almost invisible on my metal braid. --cin Cynthia Barnes [email protected]
From: Lynn Downward <[email protected]> If I'm thinking of what you'll be sewing, the metallic braid is hard to get through and those wimpy beading needles won't go through it. Milliners' needles, also called straws, will go through it and buckram, have large eyes and small bodies. They should accomodate the gold-colored thread you'll use and still not make big holes. Don't even bother trying to sew it down with metallic thread; it just won't hold up. Hope this helps. LynnD _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
