looking for a pattern

[traderlee]

I have seen a leather frontier shirt that did not use a sewing machine or any artificial sinew to put it together, rather it used leather lace, and all done by punching holes every half inch and then lacing it together. Anyone know where I can find a pattern that only uses leather lace, and not any other sewing, including with fringe.

 

[omarick1948]

I guess you could do that with any shirt pattern if you want to, but just using lacing kind of sounds like something a little Hollywood. Sew it with thread by hand and really have something to wear hard and be prouder of! JMHO

Rick :wink:

 

[John Wasmuth]

Gotta agree with Horner.

 

[Muskeg Stomper]

If I was going to spend the money for leather to make the shirt, I'd go all the way and hand sew it rather than using cheesy lacing. If you are only thinking about using lacing because you are worried about your sewing ability, I would tell you that if I can learn to hand sew, a monkey can as well. My manual dexterity for small stuff probably matched the dexterity that a seal has with flippers....

 

[CrackStock]

Sewing is not hard, but I would learn with a cheap blanket and a capote pattern. This gives you a cheap practice item and a useful product. Later, you can up the ante with more expensive materials and ambitious styles.

CS

 

[traderlee]

Don't mean to ruffle any feathers here, but I have been hand sewing for the last 10 years. I just put a leather fringed frontier shirt on ebay if you would like to see it., but I am excitied about the lace one for Boy Scouts, who can do it and have a nice shirt in two days. I will post a picture of one done with lace, and I just found the pattern at a shooting event. Green River Forge made the pattern. (I don't know how to upload a picture on this site yet).

 

[John Wasmuth]

I used to havethat pattern, made a couple shirts with it but whip stitched instead lacing. Lacing is real nice for ca 1968 San Francisco but not pc/hc for the periods coverd by this site. It is a nice pattern though.

 

[BillinOregon]

Traderlee: If it incorporates the lace in order to make it easy for kids (and Scouts) to put together, that's a horse of a different color. Otherwise I agree on saving good leather and hand-sewing with sinew or waxed linen or hemp.

 

[John Wasmuth]

When it comes to artificial sinew, using it as it comes off the spool is improper. In order to make it look and sew like real sinew it has to be split down, and then split down some more so that your deal with one thin, hairlike thread, not like a huge rope that comes off the spool.

 

[omarick1948]

Splitting or not splitting depends on what you want to use the artificial sinew for!... Artificial sinew is just a waxed nylon cordage!

 

[John Wasmuth]

Still a lot easier to use than the real stuff.