stay sticher

[behindthefrogs]

Sometimes because material is cut on the cross of the thread for special effects it is hard to handle without this stitching to hold it in place until sewn together. The stitching is slightly larger version of that used in seams, can also be used to ease things into place such as the head of a sleeve.

Crystal 

Isn't this normally known as tacking?

I also thought the wooden "feet" on which shoes were made were known as lasts.  I was brought up surrounded by the shoe industry in Northampton and never heard the term "stay" being used.

David

[stanmapstone]

See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,271915.msg1559281.html#msg1559281
which is about Lasts for shoes.

Stan

[Mum44]

Well, I always thought the stay was the frame for making them and the last was the block the menders used - like a 3-legged piece of metal with different sized flat bits on each end ?

I have a picture of a stay..... stuck in my image file!



I click on the insert image icon above here and just get [img][img]

[stanmapstone]

The dictionary definition of a Last is a wooden model of the foot, on which shoemakers shape boots and shoes.

Stan

[Bellejazz]

I have a picture of a stay..... stuck in my image file!

I click on the insert image icon above here and just get [img][img]

Mum44 you need to click on the location of the image and then copy and paste that in between the [img] tags.

- Belinda.

[behindthefrogs]

Having spent a whole Easter holiday while at college sorting them I can assure you that the wooden "feet" used in making shoes are called lasts.

David

[Elizabeth Revel]

Even today stays are inserted into some of the beautiful, ornate, form fitting gowns worn for important evening occasions. 

Beth

[crystalight]

Sometimes because material is cut on the cross of the thread for special effects it is hard to handle without this stitching to hold it in place until sewn together. The stitching is slightly larger version of that used in seams, can also be used to ease things into place such as the head of a sleeve.

Crystal 

Isn't this normally known as tacking?

David

  I don't mean to be disagreeable David but tacking consists of large stitches that hold two pieces of material together temporarily until they are sewn or
permanently fixed. Whereas stay stitching is usually done on a single layer of fabric before use.

Crystal 

[Mean_genie]

Tacking, stay-stitching, ...it's all coming back to me now, those school needlework lessons! I must have been such a trial to the poor woman who tried to teach me - Mrs Marsh, I'm sorry I was so useless, but I was trying.

Mean_genie