Leather shaping bag clutch envelope bag handmade work

Dutch Rotterdam handbag brand Vlieger & Vandam once blister-sealed the shape of a pistol into leather, which once triggered a craze for leather shaping bags.

Vlieger & Vandam below uses the shape of a pistol bag as inspiration to teach everyone how to make handmade leather bags. Here we choose to make a hand-held envelope bag, and the protagonist of the shape is a pair of stainless steel medical scissors.

Materials: vegetable tanned leather, water basin or large bottle, awl, soft wood bran board or wooden drawing board, bone knife, I-shaped nail or small iron nail, leather knife (Japanese style, American style , British style, scalpel, paper knife), leather glue, spacing gauge, small wooden hammer, sanding tools, edge sealing fluid, iron ruler. The shaping leather used here is 1mm thick. Since we want a clearer shape, thinner vegetable tanned leather is used here. Vegetable-tanned leather is the only leather that can be shaped by hand and has a long-lasting shape without the support of a mould. 1. Leather shaping 1. First, we place the desired shape of the scissors on the leather, then estimate a margin of about 10cm or more, and use an awl to determine the shape. The purpose of leaving more amount is to leave more possible areas for shaping the shape and increase the intensity of the leather shaping process.

2. Next, you need to make the leather wet and soft, and immerse the cut leather in hot water. Hot water will have a better softening effect than cold water during shaping, because in hot water Open pores will allow for better water absorption (note: not boiling water).
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