tdack
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I can sew one up myself. I'm not a tailor, but we have a nice sewing machine and I've done a little sewing myself. If I mess it up I can use a seam ripper and have my wife do it for me. She learned from her mom who was a seamstress who learned from a master tailor. I just need to find the appropriate material that will hold up to boiling wort.
Remember for the first stage you are not boiling, it is simply a full volume mash, so you really need to make sure that your seams can hold 5kg of wet grain.
The Swiss-Voile that most people here use is sensitive to heat (I've managed to melt my hop-sock during a boil). Some people put cake stands or the racks that come with Asian woks in the bottom of their pots to keep the bag a little away from direct heat.
Personally I use muslin for my mash bag and use the Swiss-Voile for my hop sock.