Professional Leather Handbag Design
Cut the Reinforcement Material
A course by Lili Storella , Leather Maker
About the video: Cut the Reinforcement Material
Overview
“This one is the last lesson of this unit and before getting to the actual assembling I will teach you how to prepare the reinforcement material. ”
In this video lesson Lili Storella addresses the topic: Cut the Reinforcement Material, 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
“Cut the Reinforcement Material In the last lesson, we prepared the leather cutouts with the patterns we need. In this lesson, we'll use and cut the reinforcement material. This is talyn and this is a kind of foam. You can feel and see that it's a bit spongy, so it will help us to make the pattern details. A lot of people don’t like using foam, so they use leather or a second layer of leather, which we call split, but that will increase the weight of the handbag. If you’re making a bigger size bag, you want to cut the weight down. Let's see this talyn. You can see it has the grain in one dir...”
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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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