Very useful tool, it covers up for my mistakes.
Blunt or damaged shears can damage your fabric, so woe betide anyone who picks up mine and cuts anything but fabric with them. These should be taken care of, in particular the fabric shears. I have three pairs, a big orange handled set of fabric shears for cutting fabric, a set of normal domestic scissors for cutting pattern pieces and other paper, and a set of tiny scissors for getting into small spaces for snipping thread or similar. But they are only part of the picture, and it is how the rest of the tools that surround them are used that makes the difference between textile success and failure.įirst up are my collection of scissors and shears. You might expect this article to head directly for the machine tools, the sewing machines. With luck this will demystify some of them, and maybe encourage you to have a go. But to concentrate only on one aspect of textile work misses the point, because the potential is there for so much cross-over between these different threads of the maker world. So I’m going to take you through my textile bench and introduce you to its main tools. Some of you might wonder why my textile bench is Hackaday fodder, after all it’s probably safe to assume that few readers have ever considered fabricating their own taffeta ball gown. On it I’ve made, modified, and repaired all sorts of clothing, I’ve made not-very-successful kites, passable sandals, and adventurous tent designs among countless other projects. This is my textile bench, and it houses the various sewing machines and other equipment that allow me to tackle all sorts of projects involving fabric. The other bench in question though is not for messy work, in fact the diametric opposite.
My textile bench, with a selection of the equipment used on it. I’m probably not alone in having more than one bench for different activities, indeed like many of you I also have a messy bench elsewhere for dismantling parts of 1960s cars, or making clay ovens. But is it my only bench? On the other side of the room from the electronics bench is a sturdy folding dining table that houses the tools and supplies of my other bench. Perhaps yours is like mine, or maybe you’ve added a 3D printer to the mix, a bunch of woodworking tools, or maybe power tools. I’m an electronic engineer by trade when I’m not writing for Hackaday, so that’s hardly surprising. What’s on your bench? Mine’s mostly filled with electronic test equipment, soldering kit, and computers.
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