A technique I used on leather - due to not having very abrasion resistant thread, was to imitate the stitch of a sewing machine. I was sewing together my school satchel when I did this, and I happened to have access to a really tiny latch tool - I think that it was used for mending nylon stockings, but I am sure that a tiny crochet hook would work too.

You have two ends of thread just like the double saddle stitch, and the process is to draw a loop of one of the threads through the holes then pass the other thread through the loop and tighten both so the cross over is inside the leather.

I must have sewn that satchel up a dozen times using tripled ordinary sewing thread, but in the end I used some fine wire and that lasted until I didn't need it any longer.

I have seen decorative stitching and knitted jewellery made with a fine copper wire wrapped in different colours of silk, which was rather extravagant but very eye catching.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: