A complete guide for newbies to handmade leather goods

Some time ago, many friends asked me how to get started with leather goods. I have been thinking about it for a long time. No matter how far I went, I finally decided to write a thorough article to help everyone avoid detours. When I debuted, I was completely self-taught. It wasn’t until I had a good foundation a few years later that I went out to learn something. I’ve taken almost all the detours I could, so I can be said to be quite experienced in this aspect. So this article can be regarded as a list of my own detours, and I hope you won’t laugh. 1. Thinking (This part is aimed at craftsmen who plan to engage in craftsmanship for a long time. Friends who just want to be a hobby can skip this section and go directly to the second part.) Before starting to engage in handcrafting, the first thing to do is not to pick tools. , nor buying leather. Calm down for three days and think about whether you really want to make something by hand? Do you really have a huge love for handcrafts? Then talk about it. If so, here are a few things you need to consider. Make money with handmade leather goods, but no boss will tell you how much time you need to invest before making money. Let’s put it this way, it took me a year and a half from the beginning to make sure my sutures were qualified. It took half a year from the beginning of learning leather carving to the time when the technique became visible. I recently went into retreat to research new technologies. In the blink of an eye, another four months passed, and the progress was only half way. There is no progress in this industry that has not been accumulated over a large amount of time. Every craftsman wants to make high-end leather goods or even handicrafts. If you want to do it, you must first estimate your patience and start training it now. Time is just one of the most necessary sacrifices in this business. In terms of financial expenses, making leather goods is expensive. Generally speaking, leather is used to nourish leather, and it is sold while making, and the blood is constantly restored, so that the cycle can continue. But there is a contradiction here. In the beginning, we basically sell to friends around us, and these friends are also good customers who are the easiest to obtain hard resources. Should we use these resources to recover our blood immediately, or should we become famous among our friends when we are successful in our craftsmanship? ? Most people don't think much about this issue and use their friends' resources immediately. However, this is a huge mistake. As the production quality improves, there will always be a threshold, which is high-end leather goods. The materials and tools used for ordinary leather goods and high-end leather goods are different. It costs a lot of money to update the materials and tools. If you don't get to this level, you can't make money. If you get to this level, your wallet will be damaged immediately. This period is the best choice to use your friends’ resources. Thirty thousand yuan of blood recovery is enough to successfully prepare the most basic tools for high-end leather goods. Without this consideration, the tens of thousands of dollars spent at this stage would stop ordinary craftsmen from moving forward. In addition, there are two steps after this, which are special leather materials and special technology learning for high-end leather goods. It is impossible to get up without tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. In short, the later the friends' resources are used, the more advantageous they will be. Therefore, when you start leathermaking, you should prepare a small amount of expenses for the hard expenses in the first year or two. This is a difficult stage that requires individuals to go through independently. The market is changeable, don’tConsider a certain category of handmade leather goods as all handmade leather goods. The supremacy of leather carving or the supremacy of French craftsmanship are both wrong perceptions. If you cannot be inclusive in your thinking and become a skin carving party, a Hermes party, a tool party, etc., it will at least slow down the growth rate of people. If the market transforms, it will be even more depressing. Before starting to enter the industry, it is very beneficial for you to adjust your thinking and understand your own way of seeing things.

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