Mary Xmas 2 Awl !

[Steelmillal]

Sir, yes Sir. Gimme a tonne of 32oz tweeds and I'd be a happy fellow!

[TTailor]

I was working with some older 1950's overcoats and yeah, they were thick! I dont think any of my current machines would have enough clearance to get the layers under the presser foot, not to mention the weight of hefty the fabric around while sewing the armhole.
I wonder if they used a walking foot or a specialized machine to sew them?

[hutch--]

It was probably an old clunker made back when you could get fabrics like that. There would be something in modern times that could do that task but it would be a bit specialised. I vaguely remember multi-layers of a fleece I use started to get difficult to get under a pressure foot. Probably the trick would be to have a foot that you could adjust the height of so you could set the maximum thickness manually but I imagine you would still need a decent industrial to do the stitching.

[Steelmillal]

Started new thread.

http://movsd.com/BespokeCutter/index.php?topic=988.0

And bookend for New Year...