[MR] Fw: Canvas

Thu Jun 17 13:31:13 PDT 2010

back in the sail and parachute shop we used kevlar cloth over padded boards like giant ironing boards, but noticed that most sail and tent makers were using plain, smooth finished sheets of wood paneling or formica : anything with a smooth finish (that could then be sprayed with silicon or non reactive friction reducers .   just lay the cloth out flat on the sheets which were raised to comfy working height by saw horses or suspended by 550 cord from the rafters to make slight inclines. and a little tugg makes the whole  piece of cloth move. in some cases the presser foot could do everything for a 15 ft piece that never needed to be touched.   
BUT that used TONS of space (an old meat processing warehouse, which had really smooth concrete floors which worked too)... and ohhh just to have one of those CONSEW industrials that cost more than my car back then :-)
regards,callidore

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>  Bambi (To be named ater) TBNL 
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> If you can get your hands on a treadle of any kind 100year old or more...it will do anything, even shoe leather with the right kind of needle.if you cant ger you hadns on an industiral..I did by accident , a portable industrial from the 1930s  which I believe was a converted treadle as the morot is newer than the body..and as for the weight of the pieces pulling on the needle and screwing with tension, another pair of hands to help you feed it rhough and IF you have the room  , 2 long like banquet tables, one place in front of the machine to feed the baric in line and one behind to pick it up .
> Also put your pieces together and roll them  with the edge to be sewn @ one end of the roll. have your helper un roll a bit then go round to your other side and roll up so it eill stay on the table, especially if you do not  have a tables long enough or the space to put them up next to your machine. 
> this applies whether electric or treadle.
>  Bambi (To be named ater) TBNL 
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> @Aimee
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> I'm using a Singer Touch and Sew 758 from like 1970.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> -Gawin
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> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Aimee Kratts <troenwolf at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >  Hi,
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> > What kind of sewing machine are you using to make the tent? Do you have an
> > industrial machine?
> >
> > Aimee
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> > > 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
> > > >
> > ===ntia.sca.org/listinfo.cgi/atlantia-atlantia.sca.org

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