Professional Leather Handbag Design
Make the Closure Part 2
A course by Lili Storella , Leather Maker
About the video: Make the Closure Part 2
Overview
“I will continue working on my closure part design. I'll teach you how to combine the padding details into your own.”
In this video lesson Lili Storella addresses the topic: Make the Closure Part 2, 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
“Make the Closure Part Now I set up for my creasing machine ready. I'll continue using this tip for that. I just drew the edge of reinforcement material. My cutting line of this piece will be around 3 or 5.5 mm away. For this part, I'll use the tip that we usually use. I finished cutting out this closure piece. I'll put the male part of the magnetic closure on this part of the bag. Let me remind how we cut the reinforcement material of this part. We go with the grain so that it's easy to make the curve shape of the closure, but you can see here, I drew the shape here but against the grain. I...”
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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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