Establishing a pattern
It’s all very well to follow your instincts, but once you start crafting leather at any serious level, you are going to have to learn to cut patterns uniformly and accurately. Here is how to get started.
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It’s all very well to follow your instincts, but once you start crafting leather at any serious level, you are going to have to learn to cut patterns uniformly and accurately. Here is how to get started.
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There are various ways to join two pieces of leather together. Gluing may be the easiest of them, but sometimes it’s also the best.
We had the opportunity to meet Yusuf Osman, the award winning designer and leather artisan, who founded the leather goods label YUSSICO.
Leather is so durable it can live on even beyond its original use. Here’s our guide to repurposing.
If you’re serious about leather crafting, making and cutting patterns is vital for any design.
After working with leather for a while, you will come to realise the importance of details. No matter the quality of the leather, if the cutting or stitching or finishing isn’t right, you’ll end up with something shoddy.
Chrome tanning is the most widespread and versatile method while veg tanning has been around for thousands of years. Which is your favourite?
Once you’ve crafted your leather design, you may well want to give it some kind of finishing.
Sourcing the right leather for your design can be quite intimidating when you first start crafting - so here’s a little bit of guidance.
Just 24 years ago, Alla Almasuri worked in a supermarket. Now he owns a high-tech leather manufacturing company and has a revolutionary plan to move the leather industry to zero waste.
Episode four of Rewind – ‘Our Future’— ties together the themes of the first three episodes to offer a vision of the future where practices from the past, including sensitive farming and the best use of leather and other natural materials, can
Amid all the confusion about how to calculate the sustainability of different materials, we need to put the record straight: Leather is more sustainable than manmade alternatives.
Episode Two of Rewind – the new documentary series that sets out the case for leather’s role in a more sustainable future – ‘Fashion’, looks at the impact of fast fashion, the environmental cost of synthetic oil derived fabrics, and how long
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