Professional Leather Handbag Design
Material and Tools
A course by Lili Storella , Leather Maker
About the video: Material and Tools
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you all the tools and materials you will use in this course and what they do for.”
In this video lesson Lili Storella addresses the topic: Material and Tools, which is part of the Domestika online course: Professional Leather Handbag Design. Learn the foundations of working with leather to create bespoke bags using professional crafting techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the last lesson, you learned that this is how we're going to make mini bags. In this lesson, I'm going to show you all the materials and tools I use every day at my work. So here is all the material that I use usually for the bag and reinforcement material. This is cowhide, cow skinned. This type is a really smooth surface I'm going to use it as the outside leather, exterior leather And this is goat skinned, has heavy grain. I'm going to use as the lining ladder inside the bag. So you will be less chance you leave scratch mark on the inside. This is one of the most material I use for the...”
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Course summary for: Professional Leather Handbag Design
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Design, Fashion Design, Sewing

Lili Storella
A course by Lili Storella
Lili Storella is a leather maker based in the USA. Growing up, she was always interested in drawing and expressing herself through making things. She went on to study drawing professionally and received a degree in graphic design. From there, she worked as a graphic designer for eight years before discovering her passion for working with leather.
Lili began making small items for family and friends, but soon turned her love of leather craftwork into her own brand, Mila.jito. She now sells accessories like bags, passport holders, belts, and watch straps around the world and shares her creations with over 50K followers on Instagram.
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