Here’s a few handy tips for making your Sanda and working with this special fabric.
- Cutting out: my favourite method for this dry oilskin
- The Underarm Tailor’s Tack
- Handing the Dry Oilskin
- Selvedge as seam tape
- Setting in the sleeve
Cutting out
The Underarm Tailors Tack
Handling the Dry Oilskin
Selvedge as seam tape
The instructions call for a seam tap to be added to the centre back seam for stability. The suggested alternative is a “fine selvedge” – you can use the selvedge from your lining fabric for this.
Setting in the sleeve
How it looks after sewing to the “tack.”