Make a Leather Keychain Zipper Wallet
For this wallet, I wanted to make a small, thin wallet that could hold coins, cards and cash. This is how I came up with this design to make a small zipper wallet. You can purchase the template here…
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Make a leather EDC Pouch
Adding a pouch to your belt can greatly come in handy to carry any small objects every day. So I decided to try to make a leather EDC pouch to easily attach to your belt. This walkthrough of how…
How to Carve Leather
Carving leather can be a fun way to spruce up your leather project. But carving leather is just as much as stamping the leather as it is carving. There are some basic tools you will need to carve and stamp…
How to make a leather wallet
Making your own wallet can be very rewarding. There are many different kinds of leather wallets, but today we will be making a bifold wallet. You can get this free card and cash wallet template and follow along. We…
How to Make a Leather Template
Making a leather template can be very intimidating. But before you go along ripping wallets apart measuring the sizes to recreate. We are going to go over how to make a leather template then computerize it to a downloadable pdf…
How to Make a Cutting Template for Leather
When cutting and tracing a leather template it can be very hard to use regular paper. As you trace with an awl, there is no hard surface to butt the awl against. So today we will help go over a…
What is a leather patina and how is it made?
If you have ever been around leather or read up on leather products you will usually hear about a patina. But what is a Patina and how is it made? Well today we are going to go over everything…
What is a leatherworker called
By Webster dictionary a leatherworker is someone who works with leather, creating different items out of leather. The worker skives, cuts, shapes, molds, stitches and makes leather items. This is a very broad term that can be broken down…
Difference Between Leather and Suede
When working with leather you will sometimes need to add filler or add a little extra flavor in your project. Suede works great with leather as they are both from the same hide. Leather and suede have distinct differences…
2 Ways to Dye Leather
Dyeing leather is a simple and messy way to spruce up your leather project. And these methods of how to dye leather is pretty universal whether you have top-grain or full grain, veg-tanned or pre-dyed veg-tanned leather. If you…
How Leather is Tanned
Tanning leather is a very important process to preserve the life of the animal hide. Without tanning, the hide will rot and become unusable in any manner. Due to the importance of tanning we are going to go over how…
9 Ways to Tell if Leather is Real or Fake
Since there are a bunch of different types of leather out there it can become very hard to know if your item is made from real leather. There are many different techniques on finding out whether your leather is real…