Tactical assault sewing machines

[bigpaul]

(17 October 2012, 11:28)Prepper1 Wrote:

(17 October 2012, 10:28)bigpaul Wrote: sewing machines of whatever variety can be a bugger to use...especially for the uninitiated! might be better to get in a stock of cloth, needles, pins and some good quality thread and do it by hand, most sewing machines dont like thick denim or leather so you need a special machine for that. if things get bad enough we may end up making clothes out of skins and hide like the American Indians did...i always did fancy a buckskin shirt!!

I don't think there's enough buckskin around for that B.P......

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There's a museum near where I live that had a display of buckskin clothes from the American west.
Absolutely beautiful things they were... apart from the odd bullet hole...
Anyway apparently they used sinew for thread so there's something to look at making from somebody's Achilles tendon.
You wanted to know what to do with all the dead bodies.... there's sewing thread for a start and bones for carving into spear points,
Rib cages for external armour and if you can find someone that had a big head you could make yourself a helmet too!!!

wife no.2 used to make leather stuff, usually pouches and belts and saddlebags, but she did once make a Chamois shirt for a friend-nice job she made of it too...a few years ago now.