Valevro Skiving Video

YouTube video by Valevro Studio teaching skiving

Notes

• three types

1. for folding
   • gives 9mm fold allowance
   • push skives using a straight Japanese leather knife
   • incises a line at the allowance line first
   • goes over the line again and again, deepening it
   • removes the skive as a single, long strip
   • 0.6-0.8 mm final thickness
2. 3:08 for backseam
   • 3-4 mm allowance
   • same technique of deepening the line
   • to same thickness
3. 4:05 overlapping pieces [seam allowance]
   • 10mm allowance
   • same deepening technique
   • 0.3 mm at edge
   • also for tapering toe puffs