Omersa and Company

Intructions for Repairing Eyes

In the event the eyes on your animal have become loose or lost, we are able to supply a spare pair. Please order through the Online shop and follow the instructions given below.

NOTE: please work from RHS of animal as it faces you.

  1. Thread up long needle with string provided and pass needle through punched hole on stem of eye.
  1. Undo string from needle. Pass both ends of string through eye of needle. The eye is now held in a “loop of thread”.

Pass both ends of string through eye of needle

  1. Push needle through RHS eye hole and come out through opposite eye hole. De thread needle.

Push needle through RHS

  1. Pull threads on LHS. This action will pull eye on RHS in to eye hole. Gently push leather stem on back of eye into hole with small screwdriver.

Pull threads on LHS

  1. Attach one end of string to second eye (through punched hole on stem). Tie string to eye stem leaving a tail end of approx 2 inches.

Attach one end of string to second eye

  1. Pull on string not attached to eye. This action will pull second eye into place in the eye hole. Pull tightly and push in leather stem as in 4. above
  1. Once both eyes are firmly in place, tie off second string against tail end of the first piece. Trim ends (leaving approx 2 inches) and push excess string gently with a small screwdriver in to back of eye hole.

tie off

NOTE: if do not have a long needle, suggested options are - a BBQ meat skewer, piece of stiff wire with end bent over (to make the eye), perhaps a knitting needle if can tie string around one end without it coming off!