Van Neistat's Sewing Guide

ABOUT THE SPIRITED MAN:
The Spirited Man is an unlimited series about the spirited man or woman who lives inside all of us (and fixing things).

ABOUT VAN NEISTAT:
A pioneer in digital filmmaking, Van Neistat made his first internet video, The Holland Tunnel, in 2000. He went on to collaborate with New York City artist Tom Sachs, directing a series of short films shown at the Guggenheim Museum in Berlin. Van has since directed dozens more films for the Tom Sachs Studio. In 2010 HBO aired The Neistat Brothers, an 8-episode series of short videos made entirely by Van and his brother Casey Neistat. Van Neistat’s directorial debut feature, A SPACE PROGRAM, co-written by Tom Sachs, premiered at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival and opened in theaters nation-wide in spring, 2016. In 2018 Neistat Directed the short film Paradox Bullets, co-written with Tom Sachs, narrated by Werner Herzog, and starring Ed Rushca. Neistat has written and directed commercial projects for Nike, Hurley, Kate Spade, Tory Burch, J. Crew, Twitter, Sleepy Jones and Frances Valentine. His work has been exhibited in museums throughout the world. He lives in Topanga, California.

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[davidspalding]

I refuse to believe it is below gluing.

[Lana.Created]

As a sewist of 30+ years, yup, you covered all yhe main points.

[lyfandeth]

You don't always want strong thread. You may want DaCot which is a dacrin thread wrapped in cotton. Also called dual core.
This is because synthetic thread can eventually cut like a saw blade through the surrounding fabric. With DaCot, the cotton layer abrades and the thread gets fuzzy and worn without damaging the cloth, so you can easily restitch it.
Commonly used in awnings and other heavy cloth.

[LightspeedTutorials]

A have made two ghillie suits. That taught me A LOT about sewing with braided fishing line as thread, thick but soft needles and using pliers, not hands.

[joshcook]

I need a full hierarchy of ‘Levels of Repair’. So far Glueing > Sewing > Taping. What other levels are there?

[unionseen]

not a boring operation but a spreading one, grasshopper

[AshleyKinslow]

do you ever use curved mattress needles, we use them for upholstery and i think they’re much better than straight needles

[linechaay]

Get an S curve needle, Tandy Leather sells them for like 3 dollars, it's made to be very ergonomic, it can go through very thick and dense fabrics and leathers...

DO NOT USE TOO TOUGH OF A THREAD.. I.E NYLON THREAD ON LOOSE WEAVE WOOL.. IT WILL RIP OVER TIME..

100% cotton works if you get very high quality thread

[shuttlepilot_]

Grandma said, ” if you can weld you can sew, now get to work”. Legend was she was great a both during WW2.

[arawilson]

I know what an 8 year old may know about sewing, and so it's one of the simplest repairs in the world.

[sempi]

Use cotton thread. Stop using plastic for no reason.

[torioto]

Must be nice owning clothes good enough to repair

[flite]

I can't believe Van needed someone to tell him the fairly obvious basics of sewing. I worked it out bymyself when I was literally 5 ot 6 years old.
I *really* wanted to make my self army style belt pouches.

[rstlss]

these videos might be helpful seeing as how this generation literally can't do anything besides winning a single game of fortnite out of 57