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Two shoes (not a pair)

April 30, 2015 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

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Handmade Watch Band with Veg Tanned Leather

April 27, 2015 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

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A series of leather trays

April 16, 2015 by Whitney Bai

Categories: Softgoods • Tags: bowl, feather, leather, pen holder, plates, round, trays, vegetable tanned

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Textured Leather Lunch Bag

April 16, 2015 by Whitney Bai

Categories: Softgoods • Tags: bag, handmade, hexagon, leather, lunch, texture

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The set

April 16, 2015 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

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Pixelated Body

April 10, 2015 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

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Baby Boots

March 17, 2015 by Whitney Bai

Categories: Freelance, Softgoods • Tags: baby, booties, boots, leather, shoes, tiny

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The Lifestyle Bag

March 12, 2015 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

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Watch strap

March 10, 2015 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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