leather oz binding for bags help...

[cbriansew]

Curious to what anyone uses for bag edge binding? If that's even what you call it....to hide my ugly seams on canvas bags and give it a nicer look. Thank you!

[ScoobyNewbie]

Sounds good to me...

im thinking of using it for a sweatband of a flat cap I’m doing later.

[koreric75]

6 hours ago, cbriansew said:

Curious to what anyone uses for bag edge binding? If that's even what you call it....to hide my ugly seams on canvas bags and give it a nicer look. Thank you!

I use the same leather as the body or accent color, cut in to strips and if necessary (almost always is) skived as thin as possible to allow a double folded edge that will cover the seam edge and give ~1/4" seam allowance on both sides...there are places that you can purchase leather binding material on spools if you have a machine with a binder attachment, i have yet to get one so i use contact cement to do the folds and bond the binding then stitch with the cb3200 or hand.

[Sheilajeanne]

I am planning to bind the edge of my current WIP. I am also going to line the bag with fabric, which means I'm going to need a needle with both a sharp point and a large eye to sew the binding in place. Where can I find such a needle, and what would it be called?

I have also thought of trying to sharpen a couple of handstitching needles. I have quite a few from the Tandy kits I've worked on!