Stitching with white thread

[Rcc619]

Hi guys, 

 

I am making a holster which I dye black but want to use white thread. I keep trying and I get bleed over into my stiches. I have tried dying and letting dry then stich. No go. I then tried dying and sealing then stich still no go. 

What is the trick I am missing?  

Edited August 10, 2023 by Northmount
fixed title typo

[GrampaJoel]

Cotton thread or poly?

machine stitch or hand?

Edited August 10, 2023 by GrampaJoel

[fredk]

Possibly easier to control with hand stitching.

Soak a good sealer in and around the sewing holes and use about 3 or 4 times the length of thread actually needed. By the time the tail of the thread is coming through the rub off should or may be just on the needle end

[GrampaJoel]

An after thought.

Are you punching the holes and then dying?

Joel

[zuludog]

I don't make holsters but I do make knife sheaths. This is my sequence for sewing black or dark brown leather with white or cream thread -

Cut out natural veg tan leather ...... dye it with Fiebings oil/spirit/pro dye ....... glue ....... make stitch holes with a stitching chisel, usually followed up with an awl ..... saddle stitch with synthetic thread ..... even if it's ready waxed I usually wax it myself

The thread is about 5X the line of stitching

I've never had a problem with the thread becoming dirty/stained while I'm sewing.

Edited August 11, 2023 by zuludog

[akguy59]

I had the same problem when I used cheap dye. After switching to Feibing's Pro the problem went away.

After reading this, it sounds like a commercial. It's not though, really happened. 

[chiefjason]

I bet you are using USMC black.  It's awful.  If you are that's your problems.  Fiebings Pro oil black is much better.  

Then pull out a lot more thread than normal.  Let the extra thread on the end take on any excess dye.  

[K5HEP]

On 8/11/2023 at 6:34 AM, zuludog said:

I don't make holsters but I do make knife sheaths. This is my sequence for sewing black or dark brown leather with white or cream thread -

Cut out natural veg tan leather ...... dye it with Fiebings oil/spirit/pro dye ....... glue ....... make stitch holes with a stitching chisel, usually followed up with an awl ..... saddle stitch with synthetic thread ..... even if it's ready waxed I usually wax it myself

The thread is about 5X the line of stitching

I've never had a problem with the thread becoming dirty/stained while I'm sewing.

Spot on...