Carpentry for Beginners: Make Furniture with Wood and Leather

Overview

“To make the seat and backrest, we are going to use leather or cotton strips. We will explain how to work with these materials and we will teach you the elementary notions about each of them: how to create a template, how to use the cutter, how to punch, how to use the edge grinder and the burnisher to treat the edges of the strips, and how to give them the leather strips its final finish.”

In this video lesson Taller Piccolo addresses the topic: Adding Leather and Textile, which is part of the Domestika online course: Carpentry for Beginners: Make Furniture with Wood and Leather. Craft your own chair out of simple materials by exploring carpentry techniques and learning to use tools like a hand-held milling machine.

Partial transcription of the video

“Adding leather and textile In this lesson I am going to teach you how to back up and the seat of our armchair. We are going to give you two options: either we can do it with leather or we can also do it with cotton ribbons. Each of these two options It has some suboptions that I am now going to explain, but the first thing that I am going to show you are the materials that we are going to use. They are going to be different if you are going to use ribbons or if you are going to use leather. In the case of tapes you will need the cotton strips, they have to be 3 cm and it is important that t...”

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Course summary for: Carpentry for Beginners: Make Furniture with Wood and Leather

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (18)
• 1665 students
• 5 units
• 19 lessons (3h 33m)
• 13 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Design, Woodworking