Marine Vinyl Sewing Machine

Sailrite has an excellent assortment of marine grade vinyl for all your enclosure cover and awning applications including custom biminis t tops dodgers boat covers and more.

Marine vinyl sewing machine.

If the fabric is too thick you will need an industrial sewing machine. Our marine vinyl fabric can be used with most regular sewing machines. Basically you can find and purchase any of the two leather sewing machines that are popular today the residential and the industrial sewing machines. First off is a heavy duty walking foot sewing machine.

There is no right or wrong needle as many. An inexpensive way to improve your home sewing machine s ability to sew vinyl. Use a heavy duty needle one designed for upholstery fabric. Vinyl shares many similarities with leather.

A walking foot sewing machine. Think of your stitching as if there were no thread in the holes created by the sewing machine needle those holes become a tear strip which will weaken the vinyl and make it prone to tearing. 1 16 of over 3 000 results for vinyl sewing machine singer heavy duty 4452 sewing machine with 110 stitch applications metal frame built in needle threader heavy duty accessory kit sewing made easy. Stitch length for sewing vinyl.

Singer 4423 sewing machine white. It s 100 waterproof not just water resistant like marine grade woven. We recommend our tuffsew straight stitch or tuffsew zigzag sewing machine. One of the sticking points to sewing marine canvas materials is your stitch length.

Sailrite is a one stop shop for indoor outdoor fabric tools hardware sewing supplies and even our own brand of sailrite sewing machines. Sewing marine vinyl is actually pretty easy. 4 5 out of 5 stars 2 238. If the fabric is still getting bunched up try tightening the tension on the machine and using a piece of tissue paper under the fabric.

Javascript is disabled on your browser. A lightweight machine could overheat or burn out under the strain of sewing through several layers of vinyl. Your stitch length when sewing vinyl fabric should be longer than you would use on regular fabric. To view this site you must enable javascript or upgrade to a javascript capable browser.

Here are 3 helpful tips we use to help make sewing marine vinyl easier. Make sure you use a long stitch length somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 6mm.