Linen covered slips

[David McCormack]

I want to have a go at covering an obeche slip with linen? Any help on where I can buy a suitable linen and how to adhere it?

Would you glue the linen on a length before cutting on the morso or do it after so you don't see the join?

Cheers.

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[StevenG]

Sorry don't know where you could find the linen but in terms of when to cover it.... I'd reckon it'd be much easy to cover the length before cutting.

Hope someone useful comes along and helps finding the linen

[Tudor Rose]

You could try http://www.linenfabrics.co.uk for the material

[Framemaker Richard]

I usually make the slip first and then cover with fabric, especially simple shaped profiles, but sometimes cover first and then cut, it just depends.
For silk I have used pongees.co.uk a few times. Linen and hessian from a few different sellers, but most recently: textileexpressfabrics.co.uk which I used for this course hessian:



There are lots of sellers with fabrics suitable for linen slips, just need to get a sample to find what you are looking for...

For adhesive I use Lascaux 303 (used to be 360), it is expensive but good and can be used for other things. For thick fabrics you can just use it wet, but on finer fabric and silk it can be left to dry (it stays tacky) and then use a tacking iron to reactivate the adhesive for a good bond.

For velvet (got two to do at the moment) I use the Blendworth New Manor Park range, but also random buys on ebay.

[David McCormack]

Thanks all for the linen suppliers, will order some samples.

Richard, would an adhesive like Evacon-R, which I already have in my workshop, be suitable?

[Framemaker Richard]

No idea about Evacon, but I guess a good PVA/EVA or similar adhesive could be used. The Frank's Fabric website has a useful step by step guide to fabric covered mounts and slips:

http://www.franksfabrics.com/howto02.asp

The whole site is worth a look round for some ideas.