Here’s part two, showing how I attach bristles to tapered thread. See the previous post for how to break the thread and lay it up so it has tapered ends. See also the list of videos in that post for other ways of attaching the bristle. Edit: The first part can be found here.
Where Are The Elves?
Musings on the manufacture of reproduction medieval footwear. Unlike the shoemaker of fairy tale I have no helpful elves so I have to learn to do it myself.
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10 Mar 08
My first video post — breaking and tapering linen thread
Here is my first shoemaking video. I shot this from a tripod looking down over my right shoulder so I couldn’t measure out long lengths of thread without knocking the camera over, but this shows the basic ideas of breaking linen or hemp thread into a taper and laying up those tapers so when you […]
