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Tailor's Chalk: Thin Soapstone Cakes with Bevelled Edges
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Tailor's Chalk: Thin Soapstone Cakes with Bevelled Edges

Tailor's chalk, also called French chalk, marks cloth for cutting and brushes off again; today it is usually talc. Soapstone is mostly talc, soft and easy to work, and seamstresses have long marked with it. Saw a block into thin square cakes and bevel the edges so they draw a fine line. The picture: our diagram, a cake from above and from the side, and the line it leaves on cloth.
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Slice the block

Saw the soapstone into slices about 6 mm thick on a bench hook, then into squares of about 45 mm (our sizes).

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Amathuluzi adingekayo:

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Ibhodi lokubambisa uma usahaIbhodi lokubambisa uma usaha
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Imaski YothuliImaski Yothuli
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Bevel the edges

Rasp each edge to a bevel from both faces so the edge is thin, then rub the faces and edges smooth on a sandstone slab.

Amathuluzi adingekayo:

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Ipuleti Letshe LesihlabathiIpuleti Letshe Lesihlabathi
Imaski YothuliImaski Yothuli
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Try it

Draw along a ruler on a scrap of cloth: the line should be fine and visible, and brush off. Re-dress the edge on the slab when it wears round.

Amathuluzi adingekayo:

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Ipuleti Letshe LesihlabathiIpuleti Letshe Lesihlabathi
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Cakes from a block

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