A few years back, I started asking, a fellow member of the same gun forum we were in, about aspects of the day to day, hunter-gatherer life style lived in the Arctic Circle, where he lives with his Inuit wife and their several children.
One of the topics I asked about was the sewing of leather garments and modern threads vs. sinew and why senew is still favored, or why modern threads are the wrong choice for working with leathers, etc.
What I learned was, modern threads cut leather, and unlike sinew, do no swell with weather changes moisture in temperature and wet environments, letting in the cold and compromising the wearer's ability to stay both dry and warm.
Thread also is generally used in long lengths, so when a stitch fails, it can cause a garment to fail by opening up a long section of the garment, etc.
Sinew, on the other hand, does shrink and swell with the weather/environment, thus keeps the cold AND the weather out, (drier), and does no cut the leather holes that are made to pass the sinew stitch through.
Lastly, being only a few inches long, if a stitch does fail, the fail in no catastrophic, as only a few stitches are opened.
I mention this because many of us that will use a leather camera cover, to protect our 'Precious', our tools, do expose these to all kinds of wet weather, snow, even wetting fog, sea spray, etc., and MAY want to consider having their camera cases and bags, of leather, restitched with sinew, which is readily available on line, to keep the wet out and minimize the time their camera(s) are being exposed to the elements.
God is in the details and, the details are what good quality is all about,so consider learning something new and useful, to give the best protection and preservation to your good camera kit.\
IMO,
Eli
One of the topics I asked about was the sewing of leather garments and modern threads vs. sinew and why senew is still favored, or why modern threads are the wrong choice for working with leathers, etc.
What I learned was, modern threads cut leather, and unlike sinew, do no swell with weather changes moisture in temperature and wet environments, letting in the cold and compromising the wearer's ability to stay both dry and warm.
Thread also is generally used in long lengths, so when a stitch fails, it can cause a garment to fail by opening up a long section of the garment, etc.
Sinew, on the other hand, does shrink and swell with the weather/environment, thus keeps the cold AND the weather out, (drier), and does no cut the leather holes that are made to pass the sinew stitch through.
Lastly, being only a few inches long, if a stitch does fail, the fail in no catastrophic, as only a few stitches are opened.
I mention this because many of us that will use a leather camera cover, to protect our 'Precious', our tools, do expose these to all kinds of wet weather, snow, even wetting fog, sea spray, etc., and MAY want to consider having their camera cases and bags, of leather, restitched with sinew, which is readily available on line, to keep the wet out and minimize the time their camera(s) are being exposed to the elements.
God is in the details and, the details are what good quality is all about,so consider learning something new and useful, to give the best protection and preservation to your good camera kit.\
IMO,
Eli
