French leather craftsmanship tutorial, wallet design ideas examples

Today I’m releasing a tutorial on French leather goods. French leather goods are famous for their exquisite craftsmanship. , so the tutorial is relatively complicated, but as long as you pay careful attention to each step, you can make a perfect product. The photo of the work used in this article is a wallet list that I recently made. The cover of the bag is a customized pattern for the customer. Vegetable tanned leather is used because of the need for engraving. The design ideas of this work will also be explained here. 1. Pattern design After receiving the order, the first step is to draw the pattern. The draft must be drawn on drawing paper or comic paper. Other paper is not allowed. This is mainly to increase the storage time of the manuscript. It is impossible to recreate the feel of the manuscript with photographic preservation. The customers request was to put his wife and children into the pattern together, and draw the wife as a looking-up goddess and the children as angels. This is a very difficult requirement. If the entire outer surface of the wallet is designed with a pattern, the integrity of the pattern after folding will be greatly affected. It is almost a joke to spread the wallet out in various use situations to show others the complete pattern. So even though the difficulty is greatly increased, I still choose to carve only half of the surface and design the pattern with the integrity of the pattern as priority. As for the pattern theme, the face of the goddess is based on the actual face shape of the clients wife, but the goddesss clothing and image still need to be designed. The clients wife is an American, with golden brown hair color and a slightly longer face. Judging from the long-term ancestry, since the hair color is not black, he does not belong to the Roman race. There are three hair colors in his family: blond hair, brown hair, and golden brown hair. In terms of hair color and blood relationship, pure blond hair is from the Nordic family, brown hair is from the Mediterranean family, and red is from the Celtic family. In modern Europe, many people have mixed ancestry. The color ranges from brown to black. The hair color in this case is because the hair color in the family includes both blonde and brown hair, but no black hair, so the family should be considered to come from the European area west of the English Channel and east of the Mediterranean. Therefore, the pattern design refers to the ancient clothing in this area, that is, the combination of blouse and robe with cuffs. Because we have to consider the knife lines during leather carving, we canceled the pattern details.

How to reflect Regarding a womans status as a goddess, the options available include a halo around her head, a halo around her head, wings, and cross symbols. Because it is not clear what religion she believes in and whether she is a religious person, the religious symbols here cannot be used indiscriminately, so We chose a divine symbol recognized by all European religions and the general public: wings. In terms of the number of wings, the low level has two wings or no wings, the intermediate level has four wings, and the advanced level has six wings and above. Based on descriptions in more popular Christian writingsYou see, wings are owned by angels. Low-level and intermediate-level angels can come and go in the world, while high-level angels usually stay in heaven, so the number of wings in the pattern is set at four wings, which is the highest godhead that humans can access. In the pattern layout, in order to highlight the image of the goddess, it is drawn in the area where peoples eyes will focus first, that is, the position of the palm of the hand when holding it. The children were placed at the top of the pattern. In order to prevent them from grabbing the attention, cloud lines were drawn around the children. The highest density of cloud lines was located near the goddesss head, which served as a guide for the sight. The final product is as follows.

2. Skin Tuscan vegetable tanned leather is used here to make vegetable tanned leather. It is known for its softness and is rarely used for carving. However, compared with hard vegetable tanned leather, its density changes after use is much smaller and will not appear too much. The phenomenon of softening after use is terrible. The leather used for cutting the outer skin is 20 by 20 centimeters. Start by cutting a larger circle. There will be deformation during subsequent processing, so leave a margin. As for cutting knives, personal knives can be used by both left and right hands. Just pull out the blade and insert it back in. This is very convenient when the right hand has a bad operating angle.

After cropping First, use 95% alcohol to brush the back of the leather for back treatment. After ensuring that the back is dehydrated, apply animal oil (butter, which can be self-refined) on the back to increase the hardness and flexibility of the leather. Then cut it into a standard size, and draw a groove in the area where the suture is expected to be, and delineate the operating position. There is no groove at the suture position here because a certain amount of strength is required after the leather surface is carved. This ditch is mainly used for decoration.

When pulling a ditch Do it once and don’t interrupt. Otherwise the groove marks will be uneven.

will be traced Patterned Sulfuric Acid Paper StickyWhen it comes to the leather surface, all tapes should be on the back of the leather. It is recommended to use plastic tape here, which has better strength.

The status after tracing the pattern , the tracing tool here is an oil-free water-based pen, which is much more effective than a stylus pen.

Leather back Condition, there is some fluffing due to the tape.

Use thinning When cleaning the knife, the blade only moves in one direction, do not rub it back and forth.

The fibers can be removed, and the thickness of the leather itself does not need to be reduced.

On the back of leather Make the groove one centimeter from the edge to a depth of about one-third of the thickness of the leather.

Thinen this part of the leather surface. No segmental cutting is required, just trapezoidal cutting, so that the thickness of the leather gradually becomes thinner, and half of the original thickness is retained at the edge.

Use coarse sandpaper Polishing the entire back to a short hair effect can strengthen the bonding force with the lining. Why do you need to clean the thinning knife at the beginning? In order to ensure that the back of the entire leather is absolutely flat, ensure that the back is absolutely flat when you hold it. There will be no ups and downs.

< /p>The effect after carving the knife line has been treated with oil dyeing and polishing. There is too much to talk about in leather carving, and I will write about it in another article later. Let’s go there today.

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