Today we will talk about custom leather sewing tools – needles and threads. The needles that the little cobbler knows about the leather are: pointed needles (general sewing needles), round pins, leather needles, curved needles and triangular needles. The cobbler used only the pointed and round pins, and introduced the two needles first.
Pointer: The two leftmost needles in the picture. The price is cheap, the head is sharp, and it is easy to thread. It is easy to break when used, and it is easy to puncture the fingers during sewing, and it is easy to poke the leather. After the little cobbler used it once, it has never been used, mainly because the hand is too painful.
Round pin: Two needles in the middle of the figure. It is a hand-stitched needle for the production of leather goods. The needle has toughness and durability, and will not pinch your fingers. Now when the little cobbler is making leather goods, he is using a round pin.
Leather needle: This needle is used when sewing leather goods with leather thread. It is estimated that many friends have seen the leather line making, the little cobbler has not used it, and is currently preparing to try to do some small things with this needle and leather thread to experience it. As for the curved needle and the triangular needle, I just heard that it is not very well understood. Let’s talk later after further study.
There are also many types of sewing leather products: 150D and 210D flat wax lines, round wax lines, DuPont lines, twine, polyester lines, etc. The cobbler currently only uses flat wax threads and round wax threads, so focus on these two lines. 150D and 210D flat wax line: cheap, rich in color, about 1mm width with diamonds is very good.
Because the line is flat, pay attention to the direction of the line when sewing. If the line is distorted, it will be difficult to see. This line is more suitable for beginners. As for the method of stitching, we will not introduce them here. The stitching is divided according to the type: hand stitching and sewing machine sewing. According to the method, single thread single walking method, single line double walking method, double line single walking method, Cross method and so on.