Acapulco style style chairs

[stickandtin]

Did some more digging through pics on the Internet and found these two chairs. The chairs in the first pic are made from leather panels sewed together. Guy that made those claims he used "1/4 inch saddle leather", whatever that means. Second chair is laced with leather. Not sure how that is done either because I assume you can only make a leather strip as long as the hide is. Can my juki 1541 sew through 1/2 inch of leather?Does anyone have any idea how the lacing on the chair in the second pic was made?

[billybopp]

1/4 inch would be 16 ounce leather.  Heavy stuff indeed!  You'd be surprised how long you can make leather strips using a tool such as a lace cutter like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y_R9ivP0_g  .  You'd probably want something thicker than the lace cutter can make, but the principal is the same regardless of the tool that you use.

 

If you remember your mythology/history, when Queen Dido and her lot ended up in North Africa in what is now Tunisia.  She asked the king there for temporary refuge for her folks .. Just as much as could be encompassed by an ox hide.  being the smart gal that she was, she had the hide cut into a very thin continuous strip that marked out pretty big bit of land, which would eventually become the city/state of Carthage.  

 

Bill