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Hand sewing kit with wire needles and waxed threads
Hand sewing kit with wire needles and waxed threads
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Used by shoemakers, cobblers, shoe repair, leathercraft workers to perform hand stitching work on welts and soles. Solid strong steel bristles to take strong pull without breaking. Less than 1 mm thick needles for easy threading through awl holes. Kit consists of 2 wire needles and 10 metres of wax thread.
- Made in Germany
- New vintage stock
- Made from high tensile steel.
- Sold as a pair of needles.
- Less than 1 mm thick needles and 10 cm long.
- Comes with 10 meters of ready waxed thread.
- Steel wire needle to create thread bristles for hand sewing work.
- Traditionally used by cobblers, shoemakers and leathercraft workers
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Easy and versatile accessory to use.
Instructions for making bristle threads for sewing work
- Cut required length of thread for sewing work
- Using a sharp knife tapper, the ends of threads about 7 cm long
- Using a pointed tool begin to separate the tappered threads in to two strands. See images
- Apply wax to the two strands
- Pass the two strands in opposite way through the eye of the needle
- Now tie a knott using the two strands and the thread
- Twist the tappered strands on the main thread
- Apply sticky wax to bind the tappered ends on the main thread
- Repeat the process for the other needle
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