Leather: Etsy treasury and teams

Here is my most recent treasury that focuses on a group of objects close to my interests, i.e. hand tooled leather wallets. I have collected both new and vintage handmade wallets that I like due to the quality of their craftsmanship, the decorative effect, or other surprising elements. I confess, I am a fan of the Sherridan style.

If you sell such items on Etsy, here is a list of teams focused on leather products to which you can apply to promote your shop and items. Unfortunately, these smaller teams are not so active, so you might consider also joining some of the more general ones to compensate. See you there!

Association of Artisans in Leather (AAL) 

hand stitched leather craft 

Hell Bent For Leather 

Leather Crafter 

Leather lover 

Leather lovers all over the world

 

 

 

 

Leaf-shaped earrings

The leather earrings has continued with the variants (in both color and shape) of the leaf and feather types. Due to their irregular yet organic shape, these types are easy to make yet of an appealing design. Using a cardboard pattern I mark and then cut by hand the pairs (flipping the pattern to obtained a mirror image of the left and right earrings). The finer cuts mark the contours and then the punch is the place for the common metal accessories. Ready to wear, light, colorful, and warm to the skin!

See all available types on my ART LEATHER EARRINGS online store!

"Feather" handmade natural leather earrings

"Vine leaf" leather earrings, entirely handmade

Special design - multiple layers of leather.

Bookmarks

As  a passionate reader, I've always thought it made perfect sense to create bookmarks - the only problem is that nobody really buys them :)) Still, I live designing, producing, and using them myself. For some I turned to linocut printmaking, though it was rather a lot of effort to cut the paper into standard trips and then to manage to imprint the model centered and cleanly. So the second attempt was more freely, with a larger linocut pattern applied to stronger paper and then cut around. Decoupage makes it possible to use smaller, uneven pieces of paper and even leftovers from over project. The final idea was to create bookmarks out of leather - the central model cut and then glued to a support of different color. These look good but again, the cutting straight and perpendicular is tiresome and some types of leather, softer one, bend and turn, so half of the bookmark is actually rather...hanging.