The needlewomen are no longer limited to making original handicrafts and leather goods . Sewing leather clothes, bags, accessories and even shoes has ceased to be something unique. However, such a technology for the processing of leather, like applying it to oneself embossing with your own hands and at home, is still available to a few.
The fact is that before making stamping on the skin, you need to acquire special tools and master the technology itself. And there are several such technologies:
- cold and hot stamping;
- blind stamping;
- congresive;
- stamping on the skin with foil;
- embossing with a cliche.
At home, the last method is used for manual embossing on the skin. To decorate your purse, notebook, bag or belt with a beautiful volumetric pattern or inscription, you need to buy a set of cliches or make them yourself.
If you have already taken care of tools, we offer simple master classes on embossing on the skin, after reading which you will learn how to do it yourself.
We will need:
- leather;
- tools for stamping;
- a hammer;
- stylus;
- sponge;
- water;
- scissors.
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- Cut out the necessary part from the piece of leather. To do this, use sharp and heavy scissors to make the cut smooth. If you want to transfer a specific pattern to the skin, print it on paper.
- Decided to decorate the product with perforation? Then it's time for this. Using a special hole punch, you can easily make the necessary holes. Next, you need to soften the skin, treating it with a sponge moistened with warm water. It will take at least half an hour.
- You can start embossing, but before that prepare the work surface. We recommend to put a wooden board under the product so as not to damage the countertop or the floor. Putting a stamp perpendicular to the surface of the skin, start applying embossing, hitting the instrument with a hammer. Soft skin lends itself with one blow, hard - with a few.
- If you want to make smooth lines, use the stylus. When the pattern is ready, wipe the skin with water and allow to dry. The product is ready!
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Combination of a picture and an inscription
To make an embossing in the form of a figure with inscriptions, it is necessary to begin with a softening of the skin with water. Then apply with a stylus, pressing them lightly, onto the skin of the selected pattern. Thus, you will get a barely perceptible impression on the product. Now proceed to cut out the picture using a special scalpel for skin treatment. Operate carefully so that the slices on both sides are the same.
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After that, with punches with different sizes of heads, process the cut lines to give them a three-dimensional volume. Be sure to check the impact force of the hammer on the instrument! A variety of nuances in the relief will help to obtain tools from the kits for embossing the skin.
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After working on creating the volume, remove the rotary knife all the flaws, smooth out the roughness. Now you can start painting. For this purpose, a special paint for leather products is used. Apply it in a thin even layer and wait until it dries completely.
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It remains to polish the surface of your product with a soft cloth and enjoy the results of painstaking work!
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It is easy to call this kind of needlework, of course, but beautiful voluminous images can work wonders with the most ordinary things of everyday use. Having mastered the subtleties of hand stamping, you can not only ennoble your own leather things, but also create original gifts for loved ones.