[MR] Canvas

[Joe S]

@Aimee

I'm using a Singer Touch and Sew 758 from like 1970.

 Its mostly steel parts and is fairly heavy duty as far as non-industrial
sewing machines go. When I'm using a light or medium woven fabrics needle,
the machine glides right through 4 layers of canvas without a problem. I
need to slow down a little for the 8 layer parts and the 16 layer parts need
to be done by hand (3/4" inch height doesn't fit through the machine).

My biggest issue has been tension and holding 20+ yards of fabric in place
without placing pressure on the needle itself. The tension issues are
probably my machine more than anything else as the Touch and Sew line is
notorious for that problem, but it is visible on the undersides of all of my
stitches, so I had to be careful to make the pretty sides go on the outside.

-Gawin

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Aimee Kratts <troenwolf at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> What kind of sewing machine are you using to make the tent? Do you have an
> industrial machine?
>
> Aimee
>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:01:45 -0400
> > From: jjshafferjr at gmail.com
> > To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> > Subject: Re: [MR] Canvas
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm in the process of making a tent (or rather two) I got the canvas for
> the
> > one I'm going to be finishing first from this seller on ebay:
> > http://myworld.ebay.com/midwest_tent/ they also have a website
> > http://www.midwesttent.com/catalog/. I have been using their 61"
> > waterproofed canvas and its great. Go with pre-shrunk no matter what
> > (laundering and ironing 50yards of canvas sucks). Its nice fabric, but
> its
> > pretty heavy at 13oz (I think that's due to the waterproofing, but it
> > otherwise seems similar to other 10 oz canvas). Price wise it was a
> little
> > over $6/yd after shipping. They sell it in rolls up to 20yds. Their
> business
> > seemed geared towards reenactors and they sell several period tents on
> their
> > website.
> >
> > I started a more long-term tent making project back in December using a
> 50
> > yd roll of canvas I got from this ebay seller:
> > http://stores.ebay.com/brokerman20095. That canvas wasn't waterproof or
> > pre-shrunk and it took forever to pre-wash and iron out. Its nice canvas
> > though and the price was really nice ($125 + $25 shipping for the 50 yd
> roll
> > of 62" 10 oz canvas). He has a lot of sunbrella canvas which is probably
> > pre-shrunk and waterproofed too.
> >
> > Gawin Kappler
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Alric <alric at alricthemad.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > > I believe someone recently posted about purchasing canvas for tents.
> > > Could you contact me off list
> > > Also anyone who has links to wholesale canvas please forward them to
> me.
> > >
> > > YIS
> > > Alric The Mad
> > >
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Joseph J. Shaffer
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Curriculum in Neurobiology
University of North Carolina
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