Leathercraft and Stitching

This nice picture has what to do with leather?

Well, we added a couple new videos on the video page.

The first is how to make a monarch butterfly mask.

The second is how to sew a spinning stitch, which really resembles the spun thread in the photo to the left. The stitch is being done on a shoe, but it’s applicable to just about anything you make with leather.

It’s really important to put a lot of effort into stitching your leather goods. It can be repetitive work, but it is vital to a product’s integrity and beauty. Quality hand stitching has been a mainstay of fine leather goods and, as people learn to get more for their money, it will be a major selling point for your own line. Fine stitching distinguishes a product from expensive machine stitched goods and poorly crafted hand-stitched “craft” goods.