Can anything be done to fix this at home? It’s on the noseband of a padded bridle so I’d assume the padding would have to be taken off to have it professionally repaired.
I took a darning needle and poked the parts that come out back in by poking it back into the sewing holes. In one spot I put a bit of clear glue on the back of the thread and poked it back in so one spot was tacked on, I was hoping it would stop it from coming back out at the spot and drag the rest of the thread out again. It’s been about 4 months and so far it’s worked. But this was my schooling bridle, I’m not sure I would do that with my show one…
That’s kind of what I was thinking about doing. I can see the holes pretty well until good lighting so I was thinking a needle and a little glue might be the trick.This is my show bridle (Edgewood I believe) and I’d really like to not have to replace it
My Edgewood noseband did the same thing about a month ago! I was cleaning it and wiped my towel over the whole thing and an inch of thread came with the towel!
I was horrified and haven’t really done anything about it except be thankful I’m not showing right now and thinking there’s a reason not to clean your tack!
I will try this as well!
After some investigating it appears the stitching was not stitched all the way through the leather rather it was punched into the top piece. I have contacted Edgewood to see if they have any recommendations
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This happened to my edgewood recently. I took it in to my local shoe repair guy and they sewed over it with matching thread. Looks good as new now from the front, but you can see it on the back side of the noseband. Guy did it in about 30 seconds. Mine isn’t padded though, so yours might be a slightly more of a complicated fix.
