unionattic Report post Posted October 6, 2021 I'm tearing down an old Louis Vuitton 'Saumur' bag from 1994. I was beginning to remove the piping and I notice that the stitch holding the piping to the canvas is unusual. One side (wrong side of the canvas) looks like a conventional straight machine stitch. But on the canvas side, the stitch is odd -- there is some kind of looping going on where there are two segments of thread linking each set of holes. I haven't noticed such a stitch on any of the binding tapes or the handles/straps of the bag. Wondering what/why this stitch is? More of a curiosity -- when I put the bag back together it'll have to be a conventional machine stitch. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unionattic Report post Posted October 6, 2021 So on further investigation, I think why i'm seeing the weird stitching on the piping is that it's first folded and sewn together with one stitch, and then that folded-piping assembly is stitched into the binding-tape/canvas sandwich. However, the bottom of the folded-in-half stitch itself looks weird with a bunch of extra loops. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Constabulary Report post Posted October 6, 2021 it´s a 1 thread chain stitch as it seems Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fredk Report post Posted October 6, 2021 That is a 'cable' stitch. Quite common on fabric items where strength of the sewing is needed. It can only be done by hand sewing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fredk Report post Posted October 6, 2021 5 minutes ago, Constabulary said: it´s a 1 thread chain stitch as it seems 1 minute ago, fredk said: That is a 'cable' stitch. Quite common on fabric items where strength of the sewing is needed. It can only be done by hand sewing As usual; two names for the same thing, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
