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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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Whitney’s Notes: Traditional Leatherwork of the Indigenous Peoples of North America

November 1, 2014 by Whitney Bai

* Posts under ‘Whitney’s Notes’ are for me to organize my notes from conference, my research over special topics and my random work inspired by random things. Please check reference list to find the original content.*  Inuit’s male outfit, 1914-1916 Inuit-Yupik Northern Caribou skin, beads, caribou fore teeth, female inner parka, 1930’s Two of many things I love about leather: 1. it is an organic material—it came with unique natural look and reacts to its environment and its users and changes over time, […]

Categories: Softgoods, Whitney's Notes • Tags: bone, craft, history, Indigenous, inuit, leather, leather craft, leather work, north america, tool

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Learning leather crafting from the master!…and a card holder I made after the workshop.

October 26, 2014 by Whitney Bai

First of all, this is me at the leather workshop haha.Since I’m obsessed with leather, I moved around my classes for a week just to sneak in this leather workshop held by the RISD apparel department. I had a blast! Here are some pictures I took during the workshop: Master’s tool box! Different types of leather and their tanning process: Master’s demo! I can’t wait to try the new saddle stitch method I learned so here is a little something […]

Categories: Softgoods • Tags: bag, card holder, craft, craftsmanship, footwear, future, italian leather, leather, leather goods, master, sleeve, tan, tannery, veg tan, workshop

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Having fun with fabric

October 10, 2014 by Whitney Bai

Categories: Softgoods • Tags: button, cloth, craft, fabric, flipflops, floral, handmade, kindle sleeve, laptop, laptopcase, pencilbag, pencilcase, recycle, repurpose, reuse, sewing machine, shoes, sleeve, slippers, tshirt, tshirtblanket, waterbottle

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Handmade Leather Sleeve For Kindle Paperweight

September 21, 2014 by Whitney Bai

Categories: Freelance, Softgoods • Tags: case, craft, craftsmanship, handmade, id, kindle, kindlepaperweight, leather, leather case, leather pouch, leather sleeve, pouch, sleeve

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Model Making—Foam Core Practice

September 21, 2014 by Whitney Bai

The goal of this project is to make precise model using only foam core and glue based on an orthographic drawing. How to create accurate curve, how to hide glue lines and how to make beautiful edges are the key. p

Categories: Form and forming, ID Projects • Tags: 3D, blades, craft, craftsmanship, cut, cutting mat, foam, foamcore, glue, hobo glue, id, knife, model, modelmaking, paper cement, prototying, prototype, sketch model

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