Tailor's chalk
The tailor's chalk is one of the basic tools and materials in tailoring .
Tailor's chalk is easy to apply, and it is particularly important that it is easy to brush out again. It is used when cutting clothing to draw patterns on the fabric and to mark the stitching and sewing marks. You can also use it to mark buttonholes, compliance and other things.
The traditional tailor's chalk is made from clay . Other older sources name finely ground soapstone as an ingredient. Light-colored soapstone is easy to grind and consists of up to 100% layered silicate talc . Depending on the region, talc occurs in the form of soapstone or as a clay mineral in sediment (rock).
In addition to white, light gray, yellow, red, green and blue, the colors usually found in the trade. For the colored chalk, it is recommended to make a test mark on the material to be used before use and then brush it out again to check whether there is any discoloration. There are now also synthetically produced tailor's chalk. Sublimation chalk disappears by itself after a while or can be removed by ironing.
Tailor's chalk is available as round or square pieces with sharpened edges so that you can draw fine lines, but also as chalk pens. Inexpensive tailor's chalk pens consist of a wood-coated chalk lead and are therefore similar to colored pencils . They are often delivered with a protective cap for the pen tip to which a brush and possibly also a tongue-like rubbing tool are attached. This is how they can be distinguished from washable marker pens. Chalk leads for mechanical pencils , also known as pressure pens or lead holders, are available in containers with leads of one or more colors. In powder form, tailor's chalk is used for skirt rounders .
For special applications, for example in the upholstery industry, there is a non-washable wax crayon that is not suitable for clothing. It melts at the heat of the iron, so the marks are made on the invisible back of the fabric.
In the Hessian town of Epterode , clay was or is still being extracted. There was an alum factory there from 1613 to 1720 and refractory crucibles , chamotte and tailor's chalk were produced. Tailor's chalk still comes from the area today, the company Argo - Arminius Goebel GmbH in Grossalmerode , founded in 1909, produces "clay chalk, wax chalk and subliming chalk for industry and craft".
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f www.kurzwarenland.de: Sewing dictionary> Tailor's chalk . Last accessed January 30, 2019.
- ↑ Lexicon in two volumes. AZ. In: 'Verlag - Lexikon AZ current reliable' Porz am Rhein (licensee), Stauffacher Verlag AG, Zurich 1970, column 3182.
- ↑ a b Homepage Argo . Last accessed January 30, 2019.
- ↑ Epterode, Werra-Meißner Circle. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of January 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).