Jewelry from leather - a fashionable trend and an endless flight of fantasy

Skin is a material that humanity has used for various purposes since ancient times. Primitive people sewed leather clothes from trophies. Over time, more and more distinctive attire acquired aesthetic forms and, apart from traditional attire, women and men created amulets, accessories, bags, panels, boxes for jewelry from the skin.

This tradition has not disappeared into oblivion in the modern world of fashion and beauty. Leather jewelry is a very relevant trend for a long time and, most likely, will remain the classics of the genre in the "fashion industry".

Today it is not difficult to buy a ready-made accessory of factory production for every taste. However, recently an individual approach to creating an image is highly valued, great importance is attached to details, stylish and expensive accessories, indicating the status of their possessor, the opportunity and the availability of time to engage in their image. Jewelry made of leather, created in the original technique, certainly able to emphasize this.

In addition to accessories, always as an expensive and original gift were: a picture, a purse, a housekeeper, a box for jewelry from the skin. Products made from such a multifunctional and durable natural material are durable and always exclusive.

Very often needlewomen who have already mastered the technique of creating flowers from fabric, bead jewelry, ribbons, or other materials at hand, look at the skin. But not everyone has enough determination to fight with new material, although such jewelry made of leather, like brooches, pendants, bracelets, bribes with its originality and beauty.

In fact, working with the skin, of course, has its own nuances, but no more than in any textile technique where there are secrets.

Consider the main ones. What you should know when you start working:

1) The ironing process should be very gentle. Steam or use a hot iron is not allowed. This technique can only be used as a special processing procedure, where it is purposely necessary to achieve folding and coarsening of the material.

2) The skin has 2 sides, one of which is smooth and water repellent, the other - nubuck - rough. If the front side of your jewelry is made of leather from a nubuck, then you need to be very careful. Drops of glue, solutions, minor mechanical damage can stay forever.

3) When working with a needle, sewing shreds, be prepared to ensure that the trail from the needle is almost impossible to smooth out, as it can be done on the fabric. After all, neither washing nor ironing the skin is undesirable.

4) Contact with water can be fatal. In order to prolong the life of the product, in which the soul, time, strength and patience are invested, it is necessary to take into account the type of raw materials used and the features of care for it. Let's admit, there are special sparing solutions with which you can wipe the product or gently wash it using soap.

5) Need skill and experience, because in this matter the accuracy of the action is important. The alterations will be visible on the skin: rip off and sew again, soak and steam with an iron, as all this is done with a cloth, will not work.

The color range of natural leather is not as diverse as fabrics and ribbons. In order to choose the color you need, and not be satisfied with what is, you need to master the painting technique in addition.