29-04-2022, 08:31 AM
(28-04-2022, 08:33 PM)Peter Naulls Wrote: Yes indeed. There are purfling dealers who offer an extraordinary range of patterns and sizes.
I learned something else today... I pointed out to my upholsterer friend that the leather was thicker than I expected, he said that if I had scraped it to make it thinner I would be a sciver. His local shoe making factory had a whole sciving department apparently. I've found my perfect job.
Apparently the people scraping leather sat down to do the job, hence sciving becoming the name for sitting doing nothing.