Leather bags. Manual sewing and patterns. J. Ganakh, P. Tsujioka

handmade bags are appreciated by an order of magnitude higher than factory, and in Japan this is a real cult. Leather bags are durable, durable, eventually acquire a special gloss, correspond to any style in clothes.

In this unique book you will find about 40 diverse styles of bags that you can sew on your own completely! All of them are made of tanned skin. Slightly brutal, environmentally friendly, convenient to process and, finally, very beautiful! One of its magnificent properties - over time, it becomes softer and slightly stretched, and aged dubious skin looks just luxurious!

This is a simple manual for reading, a fascinating method to master the leather business, talks about methods of tanning and tools for work With the skin, before step by step, lead you through the main stages of preparing patterns, cutting, gluing, stitching and decoration. Options of pens and straps for bags, as well as installing accessories, fasteners, the use of skin residues, are described.

each of the models in the book is equipped with a simple and clear instructions for sequence and technique of sewing, and at the end of the book you will find patterns on which holes for manual stitches are marked. The skin is sewn after piercing the holes in the cut details, which means this is the most important part of the work. If the holes coincide, make a bag easy and simple. Japanese masters were the first in the world to have taken care to work with the skin as convenient and easier as possible!