[Nfb-krafters-korner] embossors - how to made one idea

[Robert Jaquiss]

Hello:

     The device is known as a tracing wheel. APH and Howe Press sell them. I 
think they are also used for sewing. My Mother made drawings for me by 
putting a big needle in her sewing machine, removing the thread and sewing 
along lines with a short stitch. Of course, different stitches would produce 
varying patterns.

Regards,

Robert

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carol Osmar" <osmarc at sbcglobal.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] embossors - how to made one idea


> This sounds like a great idea.
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]"
> <powerst at dcpcepn.nci.nih.gov
>>To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Mon, 5 May 2008 16:27:28 -0400
>>Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] embossors - how to made one
> idea
>
>>When I was learning geometry, we had a drawing device with a
> metal
>>handle and a bumpy wheel.  You could draw shapes and it would
> make bumps
>>on the other side of the page.  Check with the blind product
> providers
>>and see if it is still sold.  You could draw around a shape and
> have it
>>come out on the other side of the page.
>
>>Terry Powers
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rovig, Lorraine [mailto:LRovig at nfb.org]
>>Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 4:12 PM
>>To: List for blind crafters and artists
>>Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] embossors - how to made one
> idea
>
>>homemade embossers:
>>To make the pattern, have a friend who is sighted cut out the
> current
>>size and shape of praying hands from a print item (church
> newsletter,
>>online art?) and glue the cut photo to a chunk of wood that fits
> the
>>hand as it will become your embossing stamp.  The sighted friend
> takes
>>thin strips of edged metal and, as they do in India with brass
> strips
>>for table top designs, uses a rubber mallet to pound the strips
> into the
>>wood, following the design of the hands.  Perhaps the copper wire
> sold
>>at craft stores (which is round, not edged) will permit embossing
> a
>>design on card stock without tearing a hole in the paper.  I
> suggest
>>trying 26 gauge and 20 gauge to see what works.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces+lrovig=nfb.org at nfbnet.org
>>[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces+lrovig=nfb.org at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf
>>Of Dan Brewer
>>Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:07 PM
>>To: List for blind crafters and artists
>>Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] embossors
>
>>I found praying hands at Walmart.  They were metal and stuck to a
> napkin
>>ring I was making quite easily.  I think you are thinking of
> "blind
>>Hands", I'll have to keep looking.
>
>>I will let Carol tell you about her embossing set.  You know! I
> bet
>>someone could make a templet for the hand you are looking for and
> you
>>could use the tool to trace it on your card.
>
>>HenriettaAt 10:35 PM 5/3/2008, you wrote:
>
>>>You mentioned an embossing tool.  Please tell us a little about
> this.
>
>>>Has anyone ever come across hmmmmmm a sticker in the shape of a
>>hand???
>>>Need it to fit on a businesscard and be tactile enough to feel
> the
>>shape.
>
>>>You got the wheels spinning now!
>
>>>Joyce
>
>
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