YouTube video by So Tsuchiya showing welting
Notes
- opening montage ends at 0:40
- thread making over thigh
- coad on leather patch
- curved needles
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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
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