Introduction: Pegboard Fabric

Accept your workspace with you wherever you lot go. This fabric version of the traditional hardwood pegboard is a re-configurable cloth material that can exist sewn with thick potent thread to create wear and portable storage opportunities for all kinds of tools. Hopefully this system will make information technology easier for us to have our practices out into the "wild" to explore making in new environments.

And, now is a perfect time for makers to become mobile with our practices. CNC tools, computers and electronic parts are condign smaller, more compact and portable. Laptops liberated programmers from working in stationary setups. As makers of physical artifacts, lets aim for a similar freedom of mobility. Hacker spaces, FabLabs and Co-working spaces offer temporary work spaces all over the world.

What is Pegboard?

A common way of storing and organizing tools in a workshop is to install vertically hanging pegboard. This is unremarkably a perforated hardboard that comes with per-drilled evenly spaced holes. Metal fastenings such as hooks and rods can exist inserted into these holes to hold tools. Read more:

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perforated_hardboar...

Related Work

Many of the examples in this Instructable are function of a project chosen "A Wearable Studio Do".

Project page >> http://world wide web.plusea.at/?p=5385

Photograph album >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/721576...

This Instructable

This Instructable aims to introduce the Pegboard Fabric concept by showing how to brand your own, and describing some examples of how information technology tin can be sewing together and combined with numerous other materials to create a huge variety of designs. This work is an ongoing procedure of designing and edifice my ain mobile studio and I would love to receive input, feedback and ideas for this work.

Step 1: Materials and Tools

MATERIALS

There are many materials used in this project and I will try to list them all bellow. Merely every bit a general description, materials that don't fray and maintain their shape when cutting, perforated and sewn work wonderfully.

- vinyl coated tarp

- imitation leather

- leather

- kapton motion picture

- neoprene

- felt

- velcro

- zippers

- plastics

- elastics

- powermesh

- thick cotton thread or other sturdy sewing materials

CUTTING TOOLS

There are dissimilar methods for making holes depending on the materials you lot are working with, as well as the tools you have access to. Here is a list of all the different kinds of tools I can think of that would exist useful.

- pigsty punches and hammer on cut mat or sacrificial textile

- handheld hole punch (can't enter far into the material from the edge)

- vinylcutter

- lasercutter

- waterjet cutter

- cnc manufacturing plant

- stamp printing

- industrial methods?

OTHER TOOLS

- permanent markers

- non-permanent markers

- textile pens

- cut mat

- cutter knife

- metal ruler

- circular-nose sewing needle with big pigsty

- brand yourself a stencil (see next pace)

Pace 2: Marker Holes

This project involves making lots of holes! If you are making these by hand, you'll discover it extremely useful to have a hole grid stencil. I chose to create my grid as a 1cm 10 1cm grid, and mostly brand 2mm diameter holes. To make my stencil I created a cut file in Illustrator (see attached SVG) and vinylcut it out of a thick kapton film (but because it was the just sturdy material I had at hand). I can then draw a line over a row of holes and the maker volition leave dots only where the holes are.

You lot can of form also employ a ruler to mark out the altitude betwixt your holes directly on the material.

Step iii: Make Holes

By HAND

For most all of my holes I used a hole cutter with a prophylactic hammer (so that it was not so loud) and a sacrificial cutting mat underneath.

For some holes forth the edges of textile I could besides utilize a handheld hole maker, only this gets strenuous on your hand muscles after some time.

At that place is something meditative about making so many holes, and you should
savor the process and not see it simply as a means to an terminate.

Past Machine

Then far I've only used a vinylcutter to cutting the hole stencil. Just I hope to experiment with more auto hole making processes in the near time to come.

Step iv: Run up Holes

The organization and so far uses a thick cotton thread to assemble the pegboard fabric into various pockets, pouches and holders. Other materials like velcro, rubberband, zippers, tape, plastics, metals and wood and can be perforated and combined to brand endless options.

To sew things together using this stitching method I begin sewing at one signal, sew all the mode to ane terminate and then stitch over the first round of sewing but alternate the stitches then that the finished result looks similar a continuous line of thread on both sides (as opposed to a dashed line). For many purposes a single pass of sewing will piece of work just fine. The benefits of doubling help make the seam more sturdy, and also take a different visual upshot.

Step v: Instance: Pegboard Cloth Pockets and Pouches

Sew the corners and perforate the edges to make simple pockets and pouches. These examples are fabricated from fake leather and vinyl coated tarp. See fastened SVG file.

Step 6: Instance: Pegboard Material Tool Organizer

Perforated strips of neoprene are stitched to create loops for holding long skinny tools.

Footstep seven: Instance: Pegboard Fabric Photo Anthology

Even sew photos.

Step eight: Example: Pegboard Fabric Backpack

The previous examples were all part of a backpack tool organizer. The backpack doesn't work so well as a backpack, but opened upward and hung it works great for tools.

Footstep nine: Example: Pegboard Cloth Pencil Holder

A short piece of perforated material sewn in a loop makes for a pencil or pen holder. Neoprene and felt piece of work best as they take smooth surfaces and are slightly stretchy.

Step x: Example: Pegboard Fabric Velcro Patch

Perforate velcro and stitch information technology on to create a patch of velcro.

Footstep 11: Example: Pegboard Cloth Pincushion

Create a pincushion by sandwiching a pillow between a perforated band. The holes in the band lucifer the 1cm grid of holes.

Step 12: Case: Pegboard Fabric Camera Mount

This is a start attempt at trying to make a vest-mounted camera holder that would allow me to take photos of my work as I'm making information technology. A sail of stiff plastic with holes punched along the sides is used to keep the pouch rigid.

Step 13: Case: Pegboard Material Solder Surface

Want to be able to solder on your knee? This construction of neoprene and kapton picture show allows y'all to practise it. The thermal insulating properties of the neoprene and the rut-resistant properties of the kapton combined to protect your body from the temperatures and the neoprene from the hot tip of the soldering iron.

Pace 14: Example: Pegboard Fabric Tool Vest

The last few examples were all part of my effort to strap my tools and work surfaces to my torso in order to make my practice even more mobile and accept tools with me in convenient and unusual moments.

Step fifteen: Example: Pegboard Wristband With Magnet

This terminal example is of a wristband made of pegboard textile so that many of the elements I just described could be attached to your wrist. This detail instance shows a magnet enveloped in some vinyl coated tarp sewn to the wristband turning information technology into a great tool for storing pins or other light-weight magnetic things.

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