Why Doesn’t My Home Made Tailor’s Ham Work? What Makes a Great Tailor’s Ham? Take Apart Footage
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I’m a woodworker as well, so this is nothing new for me. Go to a local cabinet maker and see if they’ll give you a few pounds of hardwood dust. Pack that puppy and use a piece of capped pvc to compact it. Don’t go nuts though. Even a “less dense” ham will get the job done. Happy sewing! 😊
That's where I get my sawdust from! :)
I posted a video about vintage sewing tools, and my vintage tailor's ham is one of the things I featured. It's decades old but works SO WELL. I have some newer hams but they just aren't as good as the old one.
Light years of difference!
This was good advice. Sawdust was free from my local carpentry store. Now I can refill that old ham that has always been too squishy and make a few other shapes, too.
Vintage hams feel like a bag of concrete! New hams feel like potting soil. Very different!
This is like: buy vintage Channel - not Shein.
The people who use poly fill did 0 research on what they are making. The scraps ones can work IF the filling material is cotton/wool and has been previously shredded and then tightly stuffed.
Of course the best ones are those filled with sawdust from particular kinds of trees.
Vintage ones are best because ppl cared for quality.
Nowadays it's all about profit which means whatever you buy will last you as long as it's warranty.
Great video as always!! I have one I got when the alterations dept closed well the whole store closed. But yanno it’s a very good ham but I never use it!! LOL. I use the end of my sleeve board. It’s a homemade one but it’s bigger and I think it was made bigger at the sleeve head because of 80s gowns. Can’t wait for the pinning vid!!
Super video!!!!! Thanks so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge
Thanks for watching, friend!
Time to go antique shopping 😍
This was great, thanks for the explanation!
I enjoyed the say-it-as-it-is video title, lol. Great information
Haha. I was kinda fun. ;)
Now that is going the extra mile for your viewers to open up a seam to show the inside! Thank you for your passion and care to share your knowledge. This was so very helpful even though I have no plans of making a wedding dress. I quilt and make home items, and this was a helpful video for me as well. The things I do are much improved by using a clapper and I just got two vintage hams yesterday. One is a little log shape like you showed. I know not if that has another name. Thank you
It's a sleeve ham. Thank you for watching! You don't have to be a bridal sewist. Welcome to the community.
@@BridalSewing thank you I will be checking out your channel more. Im doing some sewing right now. Blessings
Can't wait 🌸
I have made a couple of my tailors hams, a breast shape and long sleeve ham. I was actually lucky to find a source for oak sawdust. I like the way they work better than my “red plaid” hams I was forced purchase about 10 years ago. (Lost almost everything I owned in a collapse of a garage my belongings were being stored in.)
That's great you could find a good source for making your own hams! I want to try to hit up some local cabinet shops, myself.
YES THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS VIDEO SO MANY PEOPLE SAYING YOU CAN DO THIS WITH LEFTOVERS NOOOOO NOOO YOU CAN NOT
I wonder if you could use the hard wood pellets for pellet stoves for this project
They also used fabric that shrinks so after stuffing it they get even tighter. So use 100% cotton and wool that hasn’t been pre washed.
We put wood shavings in my outside dogs house, especially during the winter because it keeps him really warm!
I think Im gonna try with fabric scraps still. Im gonna use a method where i meticulously stack/fold/roll the fabric to see if I can get a dense brick of fabric before covering it.
I also want to figure out how to process fabric "chips" into stuffing. If anyone knows how id love your advice. Ive seen how to do it with wool yarn so im going to start along those lines with combs
Go to a custom cabinet making place. They have fine hardwood sawdust! Sew your liner and have them fill it up! I bet they will give you all you want! The other place to look is furniture makers like the Amish guys, they will have a bag of it under each piece of machinery they own! They also use maple and oak.
In 1963 my very talented high school home economic teacher taught us how to make tailor hams. She instructed us to use wool scraps, soak them in water, stuff the canvas lining tightly with the wet scraps and hang it outside in the sun to dry (western Kansas, took several days). We then covered them with wool and a heavy cotton. I lost my ham long ago and wonder if this stuffing is as usable as sawdust?
It would certainly be usuable. It may even be very very good. It's just the sawdust would likely dry out the steam faster.
@@BridalSewing Thank you for your answer. May try it next summer, better drying time on hot days.
Yes yes
Yes. The kitchen scale for quantification
The tough part is, they are different sizes. 🤷🏻♀️
I made a really good homemade ham. I used a very dense wool on one side and a really tight weave sort of a canvas fabric on the other and I packed it really really tight with wood shavings that I bought at the pet supply store. I've been using it for years. I can't believe anyone would ever go to the trouble to make a homemade ham and put polyfill in it. I wouldn't even put polyfill in a pin cushion. The best for that one again is to go to the pet store and get ground up walnut shells.
I think people like sand in pin cushions too! I can't wait to get to a local cabinet shop and get some shavings. I have some custom shaped hams I wants to make as well. Isn't it wonderful to be a maker?
@@BridalSewing just remember to use some chopsticks or something to pack it in. Really really is tight as you possibly can and then pack in some more. Haha
@@nancypollard4531 yes, it's so tiresome!
Out of curiosity, ehat material do you use to fill your pin cushions with?
I actually use hair, learned it from my grandma. It's nice and dense. I collect it from my brush, or ask from a hair salon.
The video I just watched said to use sawdust, or certain fabric scraps. I am going to go with the wood option, but maybe not sawdust. Wood conducts heat better, and will stay firm.
Why don't the clappers go mouldy when they absorb water? Great video, I had a clapper made by a woodworker and I love it. I should ask him for some sweepings!
I've just had a look on ebay out of interest and straight away saw the vintage Dritz ones - sadly for me only in USA.
I don’t know. They dry really fast. Maybe because the wood is so hard? I know the old hams I find in estate sales, etc seem to often have a musty smell. I’ve never had the smell transfer, & after a couple week’s use, the smell goes away.
Wood has an antibacterial quality to it, if stored properly, it will last a long time. Just think of your wooden cutting boards or the wood used on which cheese ripens.
In addition to what was already said, mold usually occurs during periods of extended moisture. Mold would be more likely to grow if you kept it in a pool, or somewhere very humid, for a long time (different woods have different qualities, so would start to have mold grow at different rates), rather than the short periods when using it as a clapper. And if you really want a clapper but can’t get one in a wood you want, you could always go buy a chunk of 2x4 (or metric equivalent) at a wood shop, or drop by a woodworker’s place and see if they have a piece of off cut they could give you, and then just sand down the edges.😊
What brand is the larger of the hams?
They are both vintage Dritz
Harsh but fair. ;-)
What is the measurements of that big ham?
14x8 😂😂
Don't feel bad about correcting people who make them wrong. I did it on a video someone posted that came up in my feed. She stuffed them with polyfil and scraps. I just about died when I saw it. So many people who really don't know anything about sewing post videos that if you followed them, your garment would be worn once, come out of the wash looking like a rag. You would never wear it again. Or, you would get it done and wonder why it doesn't look at least ready made. Take the time to learn it right from experienced seamstresses and tailors. They have plenty of video's on here to follow. Compare them and if it looks too easy and quick, it might not be correct. Buy a name brand pattern and follow the directions.
Wish I knew the value of these tools before I stupidly got rid of them! Makes sense why the gold standard is white oak. Oak is heavy and dense. Modern tailor's hams are probably stuffed with pine.
Не понимаю,нет ни одного комментария на русском языке,зачем это видео,пустили на канале,люди общаются когда понимают друг друга,это разве общение,чему можно научиться.
Maybe you can turn captions on? I think you can select a language, but I'm not positive. I speak English and have watched videos in a different language.