LEARN LEATHER CRAFTING BOOK TECHNIQUES DESIGNS PATTERNS + Leather Awl kit

Description

LEATHER CRAFTING IN AN AFTERNOON BOOK… MICKEY BASKETT, 2003… A host of incredible leather crafting techniques to make any one of 50 projects. The different types of leather you’ll use are supple, adaptable, and durable materials. The supplies and equipment required…Craft luxurious and durable leather jewelry, journals, purses, and other accessories in just a single afternoon. With simple language and numerous illustrations, this captivating introduction to the art of leathermaking covers all the tools and techniques for cutting, hole-punching, setting, sewing, woodburning, stamping, coloring, gluing, and finishing. You’ll be surprised how soon you can try your hand at the 50 lovely projects. The Rawhide Laced Lampshade has leather feathers as ornamentation; if you’d like, add designs to the shade with acrylics, dyes, colored pencils, chalk, or charcoal. An attractive Leather and Hobnail Frame features rows of decorative brass upholstery tacks. Or make a tooled Rose Trivet, eye-catching Flower Barrette, Prehistoric Horse Pin, Wine Bottle Gift Bag, Footstool with Style, and more.

Also included with the book:

Sewing Awl kit for Leather Canvas Drapery Vinyl

This kit includes #8S and #8C needles, 1 refillable bobbin of coarse nylon thread and 30 yards of replacement thread, so you can sew heavier materials, such as leather, canvas and vinyl.

Additional Leather Awl kits available