Create Custom Hand-Sewn Leather Bags
How to Make and Attach the Handles 1
A course by Beth Dow , Leather Goods Maker
About the video: How to Make and Attach the Handles 1
Overview
“Next, I will show you how to make two-layered handles and attach them to the tote body with copper rivets. To start with, I will demonstrate how to mark your leather.”
In this video lesson Beth Dow addresses the topic: How to Make and Attach the Handles 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Create Custom Hand-Sewn Leather Bags. Learn how to handcraft original handbags with unique textures from scratch using vegetable-tanned hide and the two-needle stitch.
Partial transcription of the video
“ How to Make and Attach the Handles In this lesson, you'll learn how to make and attach your handles. As you see on the bag, they fit with two rivets on each end. This is a two-layered handle, so it's sewn together. We're starting with leather that's the same weight as the body. It's the same piece. It will be attached until it gets down to here. We need to leave those ends open so they can go on either side of the bag, so it can be attached with the rivets. You see here, I'm using these circles of leather. I will show you how to punch those and construct them. They give a bit of extra tex...”
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Course summary for: Create Custom Hand-Sewn Leather Bags
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Fashion Design, Sewing
Beth Dow
A course by Beth Dow
Beth Dow is a multidisciplinary visual artist, photographer and craftswoman who splits her time between digital and physical works of art from her studio in Minneapolis. She has a Masters of Fine Art in Photography.
Beth has taught leatherwork at the Penland School of Crafts and North House Folk School, and she also teaches photography and leatherwork at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul. She sells hand-made goods through her shop, Fieldwork Goods. Beth’s photography has been shown in several museum collections and exhibitions across the US and China.
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