A Brief Timeline of Tooling Leather
The first use of Hand Tooled Leather is lost in history, but preserved leather items have been unearthed from 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombs and are mentioned in the Bible and ancient…
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Types of leather
While there are many types of leather available now, I will list ones that I tend to lean toward. This is not to say that other types are not accessible,…
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There are many tools that are available commercially that are utilized in the leather working processes. There are also naturally occurring tools that are in your own back yard or…
Read MoreStitching Up Leather
Nearly every project will require some type of stitching, if the piece is going to be functional. Hand stitching a piece takes time and patience, it is never as easy…
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Tooling is a blanket term used for any time you are making a design in leather. It consists of many steps, but the most important thing to remember is that…
Read MoreAging a Finished Piece
One of the questions posed to me frequently is “how did you get it to look so old? I know that this piece is new, but it looks like it’s…
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