YouTube video about inseaming with braided thread
Note
- stronger
- no work making thread
- resistance to moisture
- had issues with shoes coming back for resoles with broken welt stitches
- Ritza 25 Tiger
- potential downside: too strong, can tear holdfasts or welts
- mitigate by changing stitch width
- hasn’t personally had issues with holdfasts or welts breaking
- generally 2 arm spans
- for him, about 160 cm long, so 320 cm total
- fold over and tie in middle
- total of four hiro for crisscrossing threads
- eight when sewing double
- generally uses 8mm stitch length for up to about 28cm sizes
- connecting needles
- insert one through eye, move needle to center of thread
- tie four loose ends of two threads together at center
- two overhand knots to join, then pulled together at center
- start from inside out so knot on inside
- create a knot on the inside of the holdfast
- casting
- hand leather and shoe awl haft to tighten
- around toe
- possible that strong thread will cut
- interlaced gimp
- use thicker thread
- pushes the awl all the way through to its widest part
- final knot
- bring outside needle to inside
- pull taught
- double twisted reef knot to avoid slipping from wax coating
- trim to leave about 1 mm tails