Toying with the idea of making my own saddlepad, help me with material choices?
All my riding stuff is hideously brightly coloured and shop bought things are just far too tasteful. My great aunt gave me a sewing machine and I've been using it to make dog coats but had the bright idea I could make myself some jazzy saddlepads!
I also ride endurance so they need to be halfway decent materials and hold up to abuse. I've had a look on google, both into sewing and into saddlepad materials, consensus definitely seems to be that natural fibres are the best and wool is best of all. Clearly i'm not about to sew myself a sheepskin pad but I can get wool felt in thicknesses of 1-3mm fairly easily. I ride english so need a thin pad; I've never seen a wool felt english pad before, only thick western ones, does anyone know if the properties of wool felt (shock absorption, wicking etc) still have any effect on a thicker pad?
Last thing is whether to have 2 layers of wool inside, 1 layer, wool next to the horse or a cotton lining, just sew around edge and spine or quilt for stability.
as an afterthought... whats the chance a home machine is going to sew through a few mm of felt?
Help me live my fancy saddlepad dreams!
Submitted October 09, 2018 at 04:01PM by LiveshipParagon
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