Q: How Is A Soccer Ball Sewn?

Nov 26, 2005 3 Replies

Hello, All:



Does anyone know how a football (soccer ball) is sewn? I mean the ball sewn with fabrics in the shape of 12 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons.



Presumably, the sewing begins with the inside outside; when it is nearly finished with a long enough slit still left, the supposed outside is turned outside, and the supposed inside turned inside; the sewing up of the final slit is done from the outside.



Is this the case? But the puzzling part is that from outside of such a football, every stitch appears to have been done from inside, and there is no sign indicating that any stitch is done from outside.



Can anyone shed some light on the nature of the sewing process of a soccer ball?



Thank you for reading and replying.


--Roland



My guess would be that it is all stitched inside out, except for one seam. It would then be turned and they have an adapter on the machine that allows the operator to stitch that one last seam from the exterior.

You can find some interesting information about the construction of soccer balls here:

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All the parts but one seam are sewn from the insides , the last seam is done by hand ,,, with an invisible stich ..... mirjam

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