Professional Leather Handbag Design
Technique Foundations 1
A course by Lili Storella , Leather Maker
About the video: Technique Foundations 1
Overview
“Before you get your hands-on leather, you need to understand some foundation knowledge of different leather, pattern making, saddle stitch, and edge painting. ”
In this video lesson Lili Storella addresses the topic: Technique Foundations 1, 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
“Technique Foundations In the last lesson, I showed you all the material, and the tools. In this lesson, I’ll teach you some techniques. The most important technique is how to make a perfect saddle stitch. In this lesson, we'll use chrome tanned leather, for our exterior leather and the interior leather. I've assembled calf skin for you. and we'll use this for the exterior leather. When we talk about leather, chrome tanned leather is the most popular type of tanning leather that we use in the global leather industry. When we talk about tanning, that means this is how tannery use animal hide ...”
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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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