Instructions for several articles from old leather catalogues with designs combining the charm of bygone days with today's look. Includes a pocket notebook and card case, saddle bags and purses.
PRICE: A$16.00
This book is full of stitching projects from mobile phone cases to belts, caps, dog collars, containers for a variety of items.
You will learn to roll a thread,sew with one needle or two, and make a saddler's clamp.
PRICE: A$16.00
No true bushie would be seen without at least one pouch hanging from his belt!
Detailed instructions for making plain leather watch and knife pouches, as well as more complex plaited pouches.
PRICE: A$16.00
Most of the basic leatherworking tools can be readily made by anyone used to working with their hands. The techniques are simple and easy to follow.
You only need to make one tool rather than buy it new, and this book will have paid for itself!
PRICE A$16.00
A series of articles from early farming magazines first published around 1930-40s when farmers still tanned their own hides and made much of their own gear.
Although some of the ingredients are now hard to get, in general the information is very sound, and this still remains one of the best books on the subject.
PRICE: A$16.00
This little book does not contain any projects. It just teaches you to make your own thread for hand sewing.
Commercial leather sewing thread is of a standard thickness, and may not be appropriate for every hand sewing job you have. Making your own thread for hand sewing leather is a dying art. Most people choose to purchase commercial thread and put up with it's limitations. If you can make your own waxed thread, it gives you the freedom to customize your work.
The information in this book is also contained within the book HAND SEWN LEATHER PROJECTS, which covers making the thread, and also gives you projects to do.
Instructions for several articles from old leather catalogues with designs combining the charm of bygone days with today's look. Includes a pocket notebook and card case, saddle bags and purses.
A series of articles from early farming magazines first published around 1930-40s when farmers still tanned their own hides and made much of their own gear.
Although some of the ingredients are now hard to get, in general the information is very sound, and this still remains one of the best books on the subject.
Most of the basic leatherworking tools can be readily made by anyone used to working with their hands. The techniques are simple and easy to follow.
You only need to make one tool rather than buy it new, and this book will have paid for itself!
This book is full of stitching projects from mobile phone cases to belts, caps, dog collars, containers for a variety of items.
You will learn to roll a thread,sew with one needle or two, and make a saddler's clamp.