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Making a Leather Zipper Wallet by Hand
I love making zipper wallets our of leather, especially by hand. This leather zipper wallet is handmade using natural vegetable tanned leather, with a brass RiRi zipper and Vinymo threads from Japan. It's very easy to hand sew a zipper into leather using basting tape, though make sure to get a thin cut tape so you don't have to cut the roll in half like I did with this roll!
The natural vegetable tanned leather was tanned outside then treated with a bee's wax and neatsfoot cream, then burnished to a shine by hand. The wallet was hand stitched with a saddle stitch, and burnished natural edges were brought to a shine with pure local bee's wax. It's important when you're sewing a zipper into leather to allow enough of a tolerance to sew the zipper tape on the sides of the opening for the zipper in the leather, so make sure not to cut your opening too wide!
18 июл 2018
