How to Make a Tailor's Ham
Friday, June 6, 2014
You might find it handy to use a tailor's ham when pressing. If you're wondering what a tailor's ham is, this is a great definition from Wikipedia:
A tailor's ham or dressmaker's ham is a tightly stuffed pillow used as a curved mold when pressing curved areas of clothing, such as darts, sleeves, cuffs, collars, or waistlines. Pressing on a curved form allows a garment better to fit body contours. To accommodate tapering or garments of different sizes, it has roughly the shape of a ham.
A tailor's ham will run you $9 - $20 to purchase one new. Although that's not a ton of money, there's no reason you can't make your own from scraps of fabric you have laying around. I created a full-length video showing the entire process. There is also an edited version, if you don't need all the details to make your own.
Download the summary of this Tailor's Ham project.