So Tsuchiya Welting Video

Notes

opening montage ends at 0:40
thread making over thigh
coad on leather patch
curved needles
welt making
- bevels freehand with Japanese leather knife
- dyes on cutting board
welting
- starts from outside heel breast
- twisting the awl
- casting on the inside
- finger dams on thumbs and pinkie fingers for pulling tight
- uses shoe awl haft to pull on inside
- holding needles in mouth
- flat awl blade
- chasing the awl
- drops lasting tacks from nippers into a mug
- interlaced gimp through toe; looks like an additional length of the same thread used for welting
12:45 jumps to Sewing seat
- saddle stitch
- wider stitches, like through the waist
- no gimp through the heel curve
- hammers stitches as he goes
trims upper to outside face of holdfast
hammers all around
rubs welt down with a stick
also trims seat to the outside face of holdfast