The Little Black Bag, 3-Way.
by Whitney Bai
Categories: Softgoods • Tags: 3way bag, backpack, handmade, leather, leatherbag, purse, shoulder bag, squarebag, The little black bag
Tag: purse
The set
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
The Lifestyle Bag
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
The Little Black Bag
by Whitney Bai
Categories: Freelance, Softgoods • Tags: button, cow, handmade, hide, leather, leatherbag, leathercraft, purse, The little black bag
Beauty Marks
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
Two folds wallet.
by Whitney Bai
Dye a piece of leather into desirable shade.Cut to exact measurement, attach necessary hardware if applicable.Saddle stitch. Apply masking tape around the edges to prepare for edge dying. Grove inside the folds to make it fold easily. Finish! Left: the single compartment card holder. Right: two-fold wallet.
Categories: Softgoods • Tags: button, button hole, diy, dye, edge dye, handmade, holder, leather, money, pounch, purse, saddle stitch, tan, vegetable tanned, wallet
