by Whitney Bai
For skill building I made my first two pumps using cement construction:
Categories: Softgoods • Tags: cement construction, fittting, handmade, last, leather, sewing, sewing machine, shoelast, shoemaking, shoes, vegetable tanned
by Whitney Bai
Process: cut 20mm wide leather stripes I wanted the leather side on both sides so I used contact cement to put two layers of leather together punched off the corner punched holesfiled edge and finished with mink oilfinished with stitches
Categories: Softgoods • Tags: accessory, awl, band, contact cement, hand tool, handmade, leather, leatherwork, punch, veg tanned, watch, whitneybai
by Whitney Bai
Categories: Softgoods • Tags: bowl, feather, leather, pen holder, plates, round, trays, vegetable tanned
by Whitney Bai
I got some mint kangaroo leather from a shoe making store and I thought I’d make a black/mint set. The pencil case: The clutch/purse: The wallet: The set:
Categories: Softgoods • Tags: bag, blue, green, handmade, kangaroo, leather, leatherpouch, leatherworking, mint, mintblue, mintgreen, pouch, purse, the set
by Whitney Bai
Work published in DesignBoom This project is for my ID & Apparel course IN ON AROUND AND BETWEEN, which explore the space and interaction in, on around the body and in between. My project started with the discussion on how technology enlarged our daily vocabulary. Words like pixel and voxel are now taken out of their original context and made their way to other aspects of our lives, like fashion–techno eccentric, is the formal name apparently. I can’t say I […]
Categories: Softgoods • Tags: apparel, button, id, leather, modular, risd, rivets, shoulder piece, transformation, vegetable tanned leather, Whitney Bai
by Whitney Bai
Work in Progress… I have a bookmark folder in my browser dedicated to my online identity: google circle, facebook, twitter, linkedin…a dozen of them. I noticed a long time ago that my online communities on these websites are quite distinctive from each other—some represents my professional side as a design student, some for family and close friends, and some for public. Of course they are not completely separated. Where I choose to post certain aspect of my life depend on how […]
Categories: ID Projects, Softgoods • Tags: apparel, bag, bag pack, compositional, detachable, handmade, id, industrial design, interchangable, leather, lifestyle, magic, organizer, purse
by Whitney Bai
I have this watch that I wear everyday to studio. It has been through a lot with me—you can tell from the cracked screen and I totally wore out its strap. So I decided to handmade a leather strap to keep this watch on duty.Cut the strap and skive the end. Punch hold for hardware and ready for glue. Glued and clamped. One round of stitches. Cut extra wide strap keeper (which I prefer from user experience). Add one stamp […]
Categories: Softgoods • Tags: band, handmade, leather, leathercraft, leatherwork, strap, watch
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