has anyone have experience with minor moth hole repair ?whom,how,etc
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Depends on what you are working on. If the wool is heavy enough you may be able to make a scraping from another place on the whatever it is you are working on and place in the moth ruined area with a cloth glue. Another option is to leave it alone. Hope this helps somewhat. -
If the hole is small a few milimetres not half metre I use with a good result this way of mending: with the same colour of thread as wool I use a method called backstitching.U have to lay a stitches very close to each other to gain a dense structure.By other words u have to make a dense grating with the threads close to surface -the higher the better.After that I brush a wool across this mended area to hide its structure.
Mending a larger areas with a good result is hopeless IMO.
I tryed a lot of mending methods,this one is a best one for me,it needs a lot of patience and good eyes!!
Hope this helped..
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I recently received this Luft enlisted OS cap from our colleague Military Trader on the E-stand that had some pretty good straight thru nips,see link- http://70.87.163.50/forums/showthrea...light=luft+cap . I had restored a Schellenburg officer's Heer stirm mutze a couple years back that was WAY worse than this cap,and got rave reviews on it,so I tried my hand at this one. I usually try to introduce as few foreign materials as possible to these items for the sake of originality,and in this case the damage was so limited(but glaring when displayed
) I opted to use some actual same-piece material "grafted"from an obscure place. I used an X-acto knife and a fabric glue that is both super elastic and actually UV negative,from a local fabric shop. I carefully cut the missing sections as close to form as possible from under the rear of the flap's edge,used a toothpick to apply the glue to the inner edges of the holes(2 big holes on the sewn flap line,2 tiny nips below that and a nip on the adler patch edge)and tucked the plugs into the holes,using the thin blade tip to "groom" to a fit. I speeded up the drying time with a blow dryer and checked my work with a UV light.I literally have to refer to the before pics to find the repairs. I of course advocate FULLY disclosing repairs to the next owner if sold/traded,and offer these pics here to be archived as such evidence.Though I won't add insignia to items as"restoration"but I will plug post-war neglect damage such mothing on an item for realistic war-time appearance sake.Some may jab me for this work,but I simply can't bear to view these venerable historic keepsakes with this kind of POST WAR neglect issues.Now for the AFTER shots...any and all critiques/kudos welcome of course!
[IMGLast edited by Scott-W; 03-28-2009, 12:24 PM.Comment
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Nice work Scott.
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Lenny,
I agree it depends on what it is. Some of the Trikot on tailored clothing etc. you can never do much more then stablize. The crude wools like issue tunics etc. you can almost make invisible like the LW overseas. I personally cannot do the repairs but know people who are experts at it and it is hard to see.Comment
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thanks guys i forgot about this thread nice work Scott and thankd for your pointers John i should have been more spacific its late war wool i.e. m-42,43,etc,etc tunics and caps you guys rock
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Thanks for the support guys!The different shades/types/fading of the repair area is why I opt to "surgically"graft material from a hidden fold on the item,I'm not trying to cheat the UV light or trained collectors eye or such,but I was always told that if you're going to do something,do it right! And trying to match a 70+ yr old piece of cloth gear to a newer or even period replacement material is just too iffy. For instance the Schellenberg I repaired a few years ago went to a savy collector who liked it for it's nice bullion Heer officer's insignia,expecting the repaired nips to detract once in hand,but since I sold it for a song it didn't matter.When he got the hat in hand,he remarked that most of the nips(some 15,mostly on the crown)were so invisible he had to refer to the before pics to find them,I'm not harping my skills here,because a little practice and a fine blade can enable ANYONE to achieve good results.Of course practice on an old milsurp blanket or such before attacking that LW General's bergmutze!
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