Create Custom Hand-Sewn Leather Bags
Sewing the End Panels 1
A course by Beth Dow , Leather Goods Maker
About the video: Sewing the End Panels 1
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn how to make stitching holes with an awl and sew the side panels. First, I will guide you in marking the interior stitching guideline using dividers. ”
In this video lesson Beth Dow addresses the topic: Sewing the End Panels 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
“ Sewing the End Panels In this lesson, we will learn how to sew on our end panels. We attached them, we cemented them, and we used the knife to carefully trim them level. Now we're ready to sew. You may have noticed that there were holes that we prepared on the body piece in a much earlier lesson, but now the end panel doesn't have any holes. That's because we'll need to make those with an awl because we can't put this down. See, I can't place that down to punch through that space. This is when we'll need our good pointed, diamond-shaped awl. It has four sides, the one that matches the hol...”
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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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