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Beauty Marks

November 30, 2014 by Whitney Bai

Beauty industry has a new way of looking at people’s skin abnormality. Beauty marks, they call them. Flawlessness is out, perfect imperfections are in. Leather, is from skin too, and it has “imperfections”, such as fat marks, blemishes, freckles, stamps, wrinkles and scars, yet they provide outstanding carving, embossing and dyeing characteristics. Most of these imperfections are considered what make a piece of leather “unusable” and get cut off and discarded. As long as cows are getting killed by meat […]

Categories: ID Projects, Softgoods • Tags: animal, bag, beauty, blemish, cow, cow hide, craft, craftsmanship, design for discourse, discursive design, fat, freckles, handmade, hide, imperfection, leather, leather bag, marks, medium, messenger bag, perfect, perfection, purse, should bag, skin, small, stamps, tools, twin bags, wrinkle

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Leather Shoulder Bag

November 3, 2014 by Whitney Bai

Process:   Cut out leather.Use every uneven leather on the inside to minimize waster. (I learned from the leather workshop that most high end companies won’t accept leather with flaws even they are perfect fine when used strategically.) Prepare hardware. Cut out strap.Dye the strap into dark brown color.Ready to get stitched together.Inside saddle stitches.Attached second tone flap.Finished!

Categories: Softgoods • Tags: button, cow hide, handmade, hardware, leather, messenger bag, shoulder bag, vegetable tan

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leather tool sleeves

October 26, 2014 by Whitney Bai

I got some 8-10 oz leather scrapes and there are great for making tool sleeves! Durable, protective and an awesome change to practice saddle stitching! 

Categories: Softgoods • Tags: bend, cow hide, leather, leather goods, tool, tool sleeves, tools

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