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    A Guide to Making Leather Handbags - A Collection of Historical Articles on Designs and Methods for Making Leather Bags
    A Guide to Making Leather Handbags - A Collection of Historical Articles on Designs and Methods for Making Leather Bags
    A Guide to Making Leather Handbags - A Collection of Historical Articles on Designs and Methods for Making Leather Bags
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    A Guide to Making Leather Handbags - A Collection of Historical Articles on Designs and Methods for Making Leather Bags

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    This vintage collection of articles offers insights into the fundamental practice of leathercraft, with a special focus on the leather bag. This early text on leather craft includes historical articles that would be both expensive and hard to find. It contains easy to follow instructions on making leather gloves, and of the designs and techniques involved. Contents include: Leather Crafting; Applied Leathercraft - Chris Groneman; Be Clever With Leather - C W Read; Leather Bags and Purses - Elise Mochrie; Leathercraft - Robert Thompson; Leatherwork - F J Christopher. Extensively illustrated with instructional diagrams and photographs, it is suited to the leatherwork novice and enthusiast alike, with many details still of practical use today. We are republishing this rare work in a high quality, modern and affordable edition, featuring reproductions of the original artwork and a newly written introduction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 29, 2013
    ISBN9781447483144
    A Guide to Making Leather Handbags - A Collection of Historical Articles on Designs and Methods for Making Leather Bags

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      A Guide to Making Leather Handbags - A Collection of Historical Articles on Designs and Methods for Making Leather Bags - Read Books Ltd.

      Christopher

      Ladies’ Zipper Handbag

      THE LADIES’ handbag here discussed has many possibilities, such as are shown in Fig. 114. The upper purse in this figure might easily be considered an underarm bag because of its snap-button closing.

      Fig. 114. Group of Ladies’ Handbags

      Fig. 115. Ladies’ Zipper Handbags

      To have an effective zipper opening, it will be necessary to study the operations in making a thong in order to plait the thong. This type of pull adds appreciably to the ease with which the bag may be opened and closed.

      Fig. 115 shows the handbag with the zipper recessed and hidden from view.

      The upper handbag in Fig. 114 takes on added interest when constructed from alligator skin, which, because of its embossed effect, needs no tooling.

      LADIES’ ZIPPER HANDBAG

      Materials required (Fig. 117):

      Essential tools (Fig. 12):

      cement applier (15), dye brush (18), lacing gauge punch (1), mallet (13), paper clips, scissors (2), sewing machine, sheepskin polisher (14), skiving knife (7), sponge, tracer and deerfoot modeler (9), and waxing cloth.

      Fig. 116. Working Drawing for Ladies’ Zipper Handbags

      Order of procedure:

      (1) Draw and cut out the patterns. See Fig. 116 for measurements.

      (2) Place patterns on smooth side of leather and mark around with sharp pencil.

      (3) Remove patterns and cut out leather pieces on outline with sharp scissors, Fig. 25.

      (4) Mark size of cover A on durable tracing paper.

      (5) Select or create appropriate design. See section on Designs, at back of book.

      (6) Trace or draw design on paper.

      (7) Moisten reverse or rough side of A, Fig. 27.

      (8) Transfer design to leather, Fig. 28.

      Fig. 117. Material for Ladies’ Zipper Handbags

      (9) Remove tracing paper and press pattern lines into leather, Fig. 29.

      (10) Decorate the design, Figs. 44 and 45, or stipple, Fig. 62.

      (11) Apply rubber cement along the top, unfinished surface of B and to one side of the zipper tape. See that the zipper will open correctly.

      (12) Press cemented edges firmly together.

      (13) Apply rubber cement to other surface of zipper tape and to one edge of finished surface of narrow piece C.

      (14) Press cemented pieces firmly together. See working drawing.

      (15) Sew zipper to lining B and to zipper piece C.

      (16) Cement and sew other half of zipper.

      (17) Skive inside edges of cover A.

      (18) Apply rubber cement along outside edges of rough surface of lining B, on rough surface of attached piece C, and also on skived edges of cover A.

      (19) Press cemented parts firmly together.

      (20) Trim irregularities from project edges, Fig. 34.

      (21) Color edges with India ink, Fig. 35.

      (22) Punch edges for lacing, Fig. 36.

      (23) Lace one top edge first with buttonhole stitch, Figs. 46-49, and then the other edges. Start lacing on bottom edge for splicing, Figs. 79 and 80.

      (24) Roll laced edges with mallet, Fig. 52.

      (25) Clean with saddle soap and polish, Figs. 38 and 39.

      (26) Make thong for zipper, if desired. See p. 164.

      FIG. 2. HANDBAGS ACCESSORIES

      HANDBAG ACCESSORIES

      (Fig. 2)

      These three accessories, a double compartment purse, note book cover and a cheque book wallet, are valuable contributions to the contents of any handbag. The patterns are simple to make up and little material is required; in fact left over odds and ends can often be used.

      Notice that the making up procedure is dealt with on an individual basis as some important differences occur in this sequence of operations.

      Materials Required

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