Daniel G Report post Posted November 16, 2016 (edited) Was trying to find a leather ruffler foot for boxing gloves and came across this. Can anyone identify it? Edited November 16, 2016 by Daniel G Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shoepatcher Report post Posted November 16, 2016 Please us the foot from the side and front as well so we can help identify it. glenn Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel G Report post Posted November 16, 2016 12 minutes ago, shoepatcher said: Please us the foot from the side and front as well so we can help identify it. glenn Wish I could, but it was the only pic I found. I wasn't sure it it was some kind of ruffler foot. I'm currently doing it by hand and was curious if there was an easier way. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shoepatcher Report post Posted November 16, 2016 There are machines with feet for ruffling. A lot of time machines will have a differential feed in that the upper feed and lower feed can be changed so that they are not the same. The Singer 144W304 comes to mind. You can change the amount of difference in the upper and lower feed. glenn Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Uwe Report post Posted November 17, 2016 (edited) The machine looks a lot like a Durkopp Adler 67 type machine (Pfaff 145 also uses similar throat plates). That foot in the picture looks a lot like a plain top roller foot riding on a normal bottom feed dog. How they get the material to ruffle, I don't really know. You can't really see the material going into the machine in this picture, or whether it really gets ruffled in this step. If the leather is thin enough you can perhaps ruffle it by purposely unbalancing the thread tensions so that the bobbin thread always gets pulled all the way to the top. Then the taught top thread holds the stitch line back while the bottom feed pushes the leather backward, thereby ruffling it. But that concept only works with a single layer and with bottom-only feed, and it may only work in my head, not in real life. But I've seen a similar ruffle effect happening while sewing fabric on a bottom feed machine when my top thread accidentally got caught on something. Your leather ruffling sample looks much too thick for that approach and you're stitching the ruffled top part to a straight bottom layer to lock in the ruffle. Edited November 17, 2016 by Uwe Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Uwe Report post Posted November 17, 2016 (edited) Here's a ruffling foot demo video. Whether this approach will work on your type of leather, I'm not sure. But it's the closest thing I've seen so far. And here's a slightly more elaborate ruffling/pleating contraption made by Kwok Hing: http://www.kwokhing.com/ru/ Edited November 17, 2016 by Uwe Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
