Leather experiments

What to do when you formulate your own project for 6 weeks?

I chose to use the opportunity to increase my leather-skills. I started out very systematicly, testing out the effects of different fluids, heat and pressure on thick, vegetable tanned leather.

I found out that a suitcase could be an interesting product to make due to the properties of leather. As the leather have the great possibility of being pretty stiff but still very shapable and flexible, I saw the possibility of including a lot of functionality without adding a lot of other parts and materials.

However, making a pretty big and complex product in a new material showed up to be very challenging. Finally, after a lot of thinking, testing, shaping, cutting, stitching (and even a last minute bird-poop removal) my product is (almost) finished.

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Thanks to Sørensen Leather for sponsoring me with beautiful leather.