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Quilted leather, adding texture, dimension, and style to leather crafting, Cathy Wiggins

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Quilted leather, adding texture, dimension, and style to leather crafting, Cathy Wiggins

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Quilted leather

Responsibility statement

Cathy Wiggins

Sub title

adding texture, dimension, and style to leather crafting

Summary

Using her award-winning art, Cathy Wiggins takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals of creating with leather on any sewing machine. Whether you work mainly in leather or in cloth, these helpful new techniques give you new direction for your pieces. The techniques are introduced one by one, each building on the skills from the previous chapters. More than 400 photos lead you through leather selection, marking designs, layering for quilting, inlay, applique, staining, hardware installation, and much more. Cathy explains her signature techniques like "thread tooling" for creating the look of tooled leather, and the quilt-before-quilting technique for three-dimensionality and texture. She shares her journey into leather artit may surprise you! along with the practical info you need for expanding your creative path with leather

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