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Offline Digital Caveman

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Questions about bead work
« on: August 21, 2020, 01:12:26 pm »
Does anyone have suggestions on how to attach a bead weaving to leather work? I'd like to trim a new quiver this way somehow.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Questions about bead work
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2020, 04:53:26 pm »
I would stitch it on. You'll have to make the holes with an awl and only penetrate the leather about 1/2 way through. You could just tack it with a stitch every inch or so using the same method.
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Offline Digital Caveman

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Re: Questions about bead work
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2020, 07:32:58 pm »
That's kind of what I thought.
I tried hot-gluing the beads at first so I could undo it if I wanted.  This  worked well enough as a temporary solution to get an idea of the finished product, but the glue eventually let go when flexed.
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Offline YosemiteBen

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Re: Questions about bead work
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2020, 09:06:21 am »
you can also use a craft glue called E6000. My friends are beaders and that is what they use. it flexes and you can sew through it.

Offline chamookman

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Re: Questions about bead work
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2020, 01:27:52 am »
Titebond II will work also  (=) . Bob
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Offline Digital Caveman

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Re: Questions about bead work
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2020, 04:39:08 pm »
Isn't that kind of rigid and brittle?
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Offline chamookman

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Re: Questions about bead work
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2020, 01:54:19 am »
not a bit. Bob
"May the Gods give Us the strength to draw the string to the cheek, the arrow to the barb and loose the flying shaft, so long as life may last." Saxon Pope - 1923.