Drawstring Purse Making | Lonely Larch Leatherwork

About Drawstring Purse Making | Lonely Larch Leatherwork

In this workshop we'll be making wee drawstring pouches. We'll cover many of the basics of traditional leatherwork including cutting the leather from patterns, tooling a design of your choice into the leather, dying leather, preparing edges and burnishing them and using both veg and chrome tan leather.

Leather and all the required tools will be provided. Bring along a picture or design you might want to adapt into tooling, nothing too complicated - lots of lines close together is difficult. Feel free to email me (info@lonelylarchleatherwork.com) before the workshop if you want to check the suitability of a picture or design you want to adapt.

We will be using leather dye with a chance of spattering onto clothes (stains do not come out) so if this worries you bring old clothing/whatever you don't mind risking dyeing. Some parts of the workshop will also be quite loud with everyone using mallets.

Tea & coffee will be provided, please bring along a packed lunch!