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My second video post — attaching bristles to tapered linen thread

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.

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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 […]

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