[Ansteorra-Textiles] question

[Susan Tillery]

Oh, and as I understand it, it is better to sew wool with wool and linen 
with linen.  I have not sewn much with wool and that mostly 
experimenting with my handspun with little real success.  I use cotton 
thread mostly.  I want the sewing thread to be weaker than my fabric as 
I would rather resew than patch.  I have heard that polyester and poly 
core can saw though wool in time so a avoid those.  I have no experience 
with competitions.  I avoid them like the plague (personal quirk).  I do 
mostly hand sew my garb these days but that is because I like to hand 
sew.  Most people are not that crazy and I doubt if a lot of the garb 
even in competition is hand sewn.  Please, correct me if I am wrong.

AEla

Stephanie S Smith, Ph.D. wrote: