Want really flat seams?
Then a clapper is what you want! Not a tailor but a quilter? Thats ok... Quilters need flat seams too! The name comes from the clappers traditional use by tailors but clappers are becoming super popular with sewists and quilters worldwide.
This oak tailors clapper is handmade in the USA by Jackson's Woodwork's.
Used with steam from your iron, you simply press with a steam iron and then press the area with the clapper and hold for just a few seconds, it will leave a nice crisp seam.
The images below show a seam pressed open just with an iron on the right and on the left is the seam pressed with a clapper - Flat as a pancake!!!
It weights about 12oz and measures 9 ½” inches long, 2 1/2 inches wide tapered down to 2 inches and is 1 1/2” thick.
Both sides have smooth routed grooves to offer easy handling and is unfinished to absorb the steam better.
