Looms & Spinning Wheels

[musketman]

Has anyone ever used one or both?

I was wondering how involved it would be to make your own patching material from scratch...

I'm sure it could be done, someone had to make it two centuries ago...

Like building your gun and pouring your own roundballs, making a sturdy patch cloth on a loom could be another enjoyable aspect of muzzleloading... :hmm:

What doth ye think?

 

[jrdavis]

I think the first patches were thin leather and at some point when someone ran out they tried their shirt tail and found it worked. I don't think they considered weaving their own :m2c:

 

[2172]

Sorry, MM...my only weaving is on an Inkle loom, and the product is pretty darn thick...Hank

 

[musketman]

at some point when someone ran out they tried their shirt tail and found it worked. I don't think they considered weaving their own :m2c:

What happens when they ran out of shirt? :hmm:

I am aware of the leather patch, but we should be able to duplicate pillow ticking...

 

[Rebel]

"I am aware of the leather patch, but we should be able to duplicate pillow ticking"

We can, Wal-Mart ::

 

[musketman]

We can, Wal-Mart

I'm supposing Wal-Mart doesn't exist, at least it doesn't exist in the permanent stages that the "concept" Wal-Mart does...

Should we be reliant on pre-made fabrics?

Who's to say that in the future, pillow ticking won't be banned, we'll need to be able to produce our own to perpetuate our sport...

 

[scott k]

looks like it would be tuff. The weave on pillow tick is not just a up and down (in and out?)type weave. When looking at the weave it looks like it is going at a 45' angle to the cloth.
Lehigh..

 

[jrdavis]

What happens when they ran out of shirt? :hmm:

thats easy they used their underware!...they just didn't use a spit patch. :bull: :hmm:

 

[Rebel]

Naw, that couldn't be it. I hear them Silk underalls melt. :crackup:

 

[LFord]

Here are a couple of links for ya to check out. These are all geared towards linen cloth.

www.geocities.com/anne_liese_w/Fibers/fiberflaxproc.htm

http://www.chaddsfordhistory.org/history/flax.htm

 

[TANSTAAFL]

"Who's to say that in the future, pillow ticking won't be banned, we'll need to be able to produce our own to perpetuate our sport..."

Before or after all cars, beer and guns?

 

[fho]

I have done some weaving on a loom years ago. I think that the cloth or weave would not be tight enough. The old timers used linen.

 

[bub524]

Musketman,
I used to built, sell, and use looms and wheels. I did this for about 8 years and know whereof I speak.
I can tell you for sure, don't waste your time. spinning/weaving is a whole new world you don't want to get into. It would be very hard to spin the fiber to weave into patch material. Not to mention the time and equipment involved. Have someone else buy it at Wally's and sell it to you in a primitive tent and make beleive they wove it.