PE - Period Grommets?

[John LaTorre]

Tanya Guptill wrote:

> Case in point:
>
> http://www.teleport.com/~tguptill/alfonsox.htm

I wouldn't want to swear on a stack of bibles that those are grommets, but the picture lacks the
resolution to say for sure.

It might as easily have been a ring-and-whipstitch configuration. Why use different color thread for
the whip-stitch? So you can know at a glance if the threads are wearing and coming loose. I remember
sewing a few sails for the "training" hang gliders used  by a flying school; the school specified that
the sails be sewn with a contrasting thread to make them easier to inspect for damage. Made sense to
me.


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John LaTorre (Johann von Drachenfels)

"Always do right. It will gratify some people & astonish the rest."
--Mark Twain


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