Leather Jewelry

Leather jewelery is now very popular and designers like to work with such material. Girls often make similar jewelry with their own hands. Working with skin is really nice: it is easy to cut and model.

Leather jewelry can be supplemented with other natural materials. This way you will create a holistic and interesting composition. The main examples of a successful combination:

• Leather and fur products. You have repeatedly noticed such a neighborhood of materials in clothes, now it is possible in decorations. This combination is suitable for the manufacture of rubber bands and hair bands, extravagant earrings and necklaces.

• Leather and wood products. These are frequent neighbors in necklaces. Leather figures are intertwined with wooden beads and create an interesting ensemble. Such an exclusive necklace will set you apart from the gray masses.

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• Products from leather and fabric. Interesting friendship bracelets, neck and hair jewelry are created from leather laces and fabric bands.

Distinguishing quality material from other garbage is extremely simple. Fundamental rules:

• Read the label label. Written should not be believed for sure, but this is the first step.
• Suspiciously low price suggests that the quality of the skin is much lower than stated.
• The skin always has a significant weight. A substitute is easier to fabric.
• The smell of the skin is significantly different from the fake. The latter gives chemistry and vinyl.
• Quality material always has a rough surface on both sides. Leatherette, as a rule, has a sliding surface and a fabric lining.
• The plasticity of real leather is different from unnatural material. In the first case, the color at the fold will change, but no trace will remain. In the case of a substitute, everything is completely the opposite.
• Natural leather absorbs water, dermantin is deprived of this ability. Swipe the material with a wet finger and evaluate the result.
• If possible, check the material with fire. Genuine leather will not catch fire from a match, a fake will flare up and will begin to emit an extremely unpleasant smell.

Making curls of leather is used to create earrings, pendants, decor for bracelets, headbands and hair ties. Such products are applicable as a separate accessory or decorative addition. Necessary materials:

• patches of soft skin up to 1 mm thick;
• PVA construction glue Moment;
• plexiglass or plastic as a work surface.

Manufacturing:

1. Long patches need to be twisted into bundles. Apply the glue close to the shearing with a neat strip or dots and distribute with the help of awls. Fold the strip about 0.5 cm and press it down with a soft cloth for better adhesion and remove excess glue. We press the entire length and cut it with sharp scissors. Harness ready!
2. We make the first stage as many times as necessary to get the necessary number of harnesses.
3. Wrap a harness (or several) with a small piece of evidence and drip glue into the middle. Now you need to press the workpiece to the Plexiglas and wait until the glue grabs.
4. Further twisting produced on the surface. To do this, make a strip of glue around the workpiece. At the time of the turn capture glue cut. Thus, the material will be fixed between each other, and there will be no contamination from the adhesive on the outside.
5. Wrapping can be done with a single tow or several (up to 3x). If the band is over, then it should be increased. To do this, grease the side of the harness with glue and hold it for a while.
6. Leave the product overnight so that the skin is well glued.The next day, separate the workpiece from the working surface with a ruler or something like that.
7. Turn the product inside out and put glue in the center. Spread it over the entire surface and leave for another day.
8. Decorate the back of the so: to the inside of the glue a solid piece of leather of the right size.

List of materials:

• leather;
• waxed threads;
• PVA glue Moment;
• sewing needle;
• decoration materials: rhinestones, beads, buttons, etc.

Manufacturing:

1. Make stencils of durable paper for petals. Stencil petals on the skin and cut with nail scissors. Make the required amount.
2. Repeat the first step for the petals of the inner row. Make a smaller stencil.
3. Smear glue the lower part of the petals on the wrong side, apply glue closer to the middle. Now it is possible to form a volumetric relief of a leaf.
4. Glue the parts together.
5. When the glue is taken, but not yet dried - it's time to use a needle and thread. Make a pair of through stitches for a more secure fit.