Slate frames are an increasing number of tough to return by right here within the US nowadays.
I believe the price of wooden and the price of labor makes them pricy, and folk who beforehand manufactured them, both as a wholesale product for retail shops or as a facet hustle to promote instantly, have fallen off a bit.
Beneath, I’ll share a pair sources for good high quality slate frames, and supply info for additional exploration of slate frames for many who want to know extra about them.
A slate body is a useful instrument, glorious for tensioning medium to giant embroidery initiatives.
Certain, medium and small initiatives – particularly in the event that they’re going to be comparatively fast – are effective on hoops or stretcher bars. There’s nothing like a great hoop for small embroidery initiatives – they’re the quickest solution to get your material tensioned nicely and able to sew.
However Large Stuff that might be within the works for some time? You simply can’t beat a great slate body!
When you’re not acquainted with a slate body, you may learn this early article about setting us a slate body (known as “dressing” the body). In it, you’ll uncover the fundamental ideas of organising a slate body and the way a slate body is used.
The body in that individual article, although, is not made by that producer.
If you wish to discover a related, top quality, actually sturdy, lovely slate body of that ilk (together with in customized sizes), the one place I do know of within the US the place they are often ordered is Ecclesiastical Stitching.
There, you should have the choice of ordering some normal sizes, however additionally they take orders for customized sizes as nicely.
These are the slate frames that I exploit repeatedly for ecclesiastical embroidery initiatives like this one, and different related, long-term, bigger initiatives.
In addition they have glorious trestles obtainable. Trestles are the rig generally used to carry bigger slate frames when you’re engaged on them.
Some time again, I additionally wrote about these lovely slate frames from TF Woodcraft. These are a barely totally different configuration of slate body, however they’re the identical idea of a slate body. The “rollers” (the bars that you simply connect the material to, and roll the material on, if you happen to’re material is bigger than the peak of your facet slats) have holes in them for attaching the material.
I want attaching material to a sturdy twill strip or one thing related, which is connected to the rollers, so I sewed a heavy cotton twill tape onto the rollers to carry my material, and it labored effective. Due to the character of most cotton twill tape, I’ve to modify the tape out every so often, if it will get weak from stitching material onto it.
You may sew one thing apart from twill tape onto the rollers, I suppose – you possibly can simply lower a great strip of heavy responsibility sturdy material, lower on the grain (you don’t need it stretching) and stitch that on the rollers, for instance.
TF Woodcrafts additionally has a really fairly set of trestles. I’ve not tried them (some day I’d wish to spend money on a set!), however I’ve heard good issues about them.
You could find their slate frames and trestles – and different handmade wood fiber arts instruments – obtainable right here at TF Woodcraft.
Extra on Slate Frames
I’ve written a bit about slate frames through the years, and here’s a checklist of articles about slate frames if you need to discover additional.
For individuals who are new to embroidery and who haven’t but explored the world of hoops and frames and the different sorts on the market, this text on hoops and frames might come in useful.
