It took me more than one year to finish this project. Cowhide was hard to sticth, very thick. So doing 10cm was taking a lot of time.

Protection de fermeture éclair

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SEP 000

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Dying

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What it would look like after stitching

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Adding the holes

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Preparing the hole location

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Stitching the borders

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On the reverse side Clamps are here to maintain the fabric to avoid stitching errors

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Another pocket to prepare

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Before after stitching

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Stitching to the leather with easy to stitch thread

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Adding the nice and strong thread

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Face du sac

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Bag handle

Uncutted leather

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Prepare the dyes

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Dye

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Cut the extremities

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Prepare the coil

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Glue the coil

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Use clamps to fix it

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I added marks (in cm) to better know how to reproduce

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After gluing is done, make the holes (draw a line first)

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Then stitch to make it nice and make sure the glue effect will never vanish

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Stop before the shrinking

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Bent the leather and draw with a pen where the two pieces fit.

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Then cut and prepare the holes

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Stitch (Do not forget the metallic ring)

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Hide the threads

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Use a cutter to flatten the edges. Make them regular

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Use the cutter to equalize both side of the leather after stitching

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Then, burnish to make edges smooth

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Add edge protector

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Final result

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Second bag handle

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SEP 017

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SEP 018

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SEP 019

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SEP 020

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SEP 021

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SEP 022

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SEP 023

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SEP 024

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SEP 026

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Before cutting the edges: you can see that there is a gap between the two leather parts

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After: the surface is smooth, almost impossible to distinguish the parts

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We prepare only the firt holes. Last one will be done progressively, when the two leather parts would be fixed together.

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Bottom of the Bag (facing the ground)

Cutting the edges

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Testing dying effects

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Defect on the leather

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First dying pass

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Making the holes

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Zipper preparation

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Preparing Zipper endings

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Gluing

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Stitching in case of

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Stitching the zipper to the lining

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Stitching the leather protection to the zipper

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Preparing the pocket

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Preparing hole location

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Cutting

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Reversal

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Checking zipper location

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Cutting extra lining

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Cleaner result

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Adding the zipper

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From the inside of the pocket

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Rolling back the pocket over itself (stitch left and right)

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The pocket inside the lining

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Bag Small Side

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Decorative bands with thickness effect

Band preparation

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Dying

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Draw parallel lines at 0.5 cm from the edge

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Shrink at 4 cm

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Gluing a band (use goat hide, cheaper)

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Emboss.

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Create a hole to fix first the top of the strip

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Position correctly the bottom

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Stitch from the top to the bottom

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First Part OK

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Second part OK

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Result

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Bottom

Adding feets

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Large Sides (Cowhid)

Cutting in the 2 m² cow hide

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Pieces (parallel)

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What it may looks like after stitching

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Shorter sides

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Adding a “liseret”

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Flat parts

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Uncomplete /// Large break