By Gina Osterloth

Working with Leather

Deciding what to make… be bold! •Saddles

•Gun Belts

•Holsters

•Belts

•Purse/Billfold

•Journal Covers

•Phone Cases Whatever You can Imagine…

Selecting The Leather

Type

Quality

Thickness

Texture

Hair One Cows Hide…

Tooling weight 4-5-6-7 ounce

Ostrich

Harness Weight 7-8-9 ounce

Garment Weight

Snakeskin

Crocodile

Tooling sides

or Exotics like…

What to think about when Selecting Your Pattern

Size

Shape

Design

Orientation

Actual Area of the Project

surface

Dimensions of the project

Overall

Area of the proje

ct

Layout of the design on the

project

Carving the Leather & Tooling

Cut it out

Tool Borders

Work Design

Tool the Back grounding

Finishing & Assembly Dye & Finish Assembly ….th

en

Questions?

Bibliography

Works Cited

Tandy Leather Boise , Joanne Stucker . Personal interview. 15 Feb. 2011. This interview was conducted during a leather crafting class.

Tandy Leather Boise , Joanne Stucker . Personal interview. 10 Mar. 2011. Interviw was conducted during a leather working class.

Tandy Leather Boise , Joanne Stucker . Personal interview. 15 Mar. 2011. Interviw was conducted during a leather working class hosted by Tandy Leather.

Marlin's Mountain Leather, Marlin Reed . Personal interview. 10 Apr. 2011. This was a series of working interviews as several gun rigs - holster and gun belts - were being created.

Faith Based Productions , Gina Osterloth. Personal interview. 20 Jan. 2012. This was a working interview on the basics of leather working with completion of small leather project.

Stohlman, Al . Basic leathercraft. Fort Worth, TX: Tandy Leather Co., 1982. Print. Stohlman, Al.. How to carve leather. Fort Worth, Tex.: Craftool Co., 1952. Print. Stohlman, Al.. How to buckstitch. Fort Worth, TX: Tandy Leather Co., 1978. Print. Stohlman, Al.. The art of hand sewing leather. Fort Worth, Tex.: Tandy Leather

Factory, 2009. Print. Stolhman, Al.. Leatherwork manual. S.l: Texas Tandy Leather, 1984. Print.

 

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