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Leather flowers

Leather is an unusually beautiful and flexible material. Well-crafted leather is beautiful in itself and does not need additional adornments. Decorations are designed to emphasize the character of the product, to give it expressiveness. Do not forget that lace holes, openwork carving weaken the material, while the applique, on the contrary, gives it strength. Try to decorate the skin in such a way as to cover up its imperfections and create a unified composition.

Since ancient times, many methods of decorative processing of leather have been known: dyeing, drapery, heat treatment, molding, embossing and stamping, carving and engraving, applique and embroidery, gilding and silvering, intarsia (inlay), burning, batik, ornaments with wicker patterns.

Flowers can be made from any skin. Do not throw away old leather goods, bags, jackets, tops of boots, gloves. Even the most shabby and nondescript at first glance things will come in handy at work. Ordinary shoe polish and petroleum jelly will polish the leather well and hide scuffs, give the product a finish.

Start with the easiest way. Mark circles of different diameters with a pair of compasses. Cut them out with a knife or zig-zag scissors. Make radial cuts so as not to break the circles. Connect all the parts with a thread. Decorate the middle with a bead or a beautiful button.

You can complicate the model. Think of a flower with petals of different lengths and shapes, thread them together, or glue them. For working with leather, Moment glue is best suited. Such flowers can be used in earrings and jewelry, for bags and hairpins, as well as for creating whole panels.

You can make products that imitate natural flowers. Pick up a leather jacket (this is burnished leather, tanned with willow bark, it can be red, black or beige, made from leather of horses, deer, pigs) or other vegetable tanned leather of different shades. Soft leathers of natural colors are also suitable. Any skin can be made softer by kneading it with your hands for a long time. Castor oil or machine oil softens the skin and makes it more pliable.

It is convenient to use aerosol paint for shoes or colored hair sprays to dye the leather in different colors. But there are also centuries-old traditions of leather coloring. In the Middle Ages, tanners used oak bark, acorns, chestnut bark, willow, pine, and spruce when tanning. Unfinished leather was stained with herbal decoctions. To obtain a yellow color, decoctions were prepared from chamomile or unripe fruits of black cumin. The red color was achieved using juices of wild apples, pomegranates or vermouth. Brown shades were obtained by varying the concentration of acorn decoction. To obtain a rich brown color, unripe walnuts were sometimes added to the acorn broth. The skin was colored green with copper powder. Each house has its own recipes for coloring eggs for Easter. Try experimenting with leather as well. Artificial dyes are easier to prepare, but leather is a natural material and natural color looks much more advantageous. Do not rush to paint large pieces right away, try on small ones first.

Here is a variant of staining with aniline dyes. Dissolve one packet of dye in 0.3 liters of boiling water and strain. Dip wet and smoothed skin into a solution with a temperature of 45-500C. Avoid creases. Leave the skin in the solution until it cools. It is better to fix the dye with a fixative, which can be used as hairspray or vinegar. If you dip dry, badly crumpled skin into the dye, you will get "boiled water". "Marning" is achieved by spraying paint from a spray bottle on dry crumpled leather. Stencils and ink solutions can be used.

First, take a close look at fresh flowers and plants. Think about what parts they consist of. Such flowers are best done without hem.To prevent the flowers from shaggy, remove the bakhtarma (the inside of the skin) and treat the edges with stain. Wet the petals and give them a given shape, work out the veins. For molding, a wooden blank is made in the shape of an object, or any thing with a similar shape that is slightly larger than the future product is used. The skin is moisturized from the inside, then pushed into the product repeatedly until it stretches. This method is also suitable for tough skin. After drying, the product will retain its new shape. To speed up the work, dry the product under a lamp. Lubricate dried petals and leaves with PVA or busylate.

Thick and tough leather can be easily heat treated. The simplest option is fried buttons. Leather mugs are fried in a cast-iron pan over low heat. Gradually, they will bend up and take a hemispherical shape. Try not to overcook the skin. When heat-treated, the leather always tends to take a spherical shape. Light can be very charred, varnished bends faster than usual, but its edges often turn yellow or gather in an accordion.

Having practiced on individual elements, you can assemble a more complex composition on a dense basis using the technique draperies (blind man's buff). First, try squeezing the leather on a newspaper or a piece of paper - scouring and trimming the edges. Using a spatula from a manicure set, push through the deepened areas, collect folds. Only when you have given the skin the desired shape, glue it to the base. In those places where the blind man's buff sticks, remove the upper part of the base or scratch it with a sharp knife. A rough surface will add strength. With the help of Moment glue and the simplest tools - tweezers, awl, you can create any shape: folds, curls, leaves, petals, etc.

For the leaves, cut out the blank, adjust the edges and shape it with tweezers. First, pinch the center line, mark the veins from it. Try to convey the movement of real living leaves.

The rosette can be made from a thick soft edging or a thin strip. Do the middle first. Glue the skin tightly in several turns. Then follow the diverging petals. Attach the bottom sections of the strip so that soft waves are formed. Squeeze and bend the skin slightly while gluing it around the corolla. Your rose will be indistinguishable from the real one.

In order to make a piping, prepare a thin long strip. Begin to roll it into a tube with glue. Once you have reached the desired thickness, trim off the excess skin with a knife. Attach the edging so that the cut always remains invisible. Try to roll the piping in a spiral. You will receive delicate curls of various shapes.

Each finished product requires revision. During work, you can accidentally spill glue, oily spots often appear on the skin, light skin gets dirty quickly, bakhtarma is shaggy. Bevel the edges first with a single-sided knife. It is better to clean the skin with a solution of oxalic acid (1 teaspoon per 0.5 l of water). Use a swab to wipe the surface with tweezers. This will remove greasy stains and fingerprints and also remove dirt. Exquisite beauty will be given to the product by varnishing with a special varnish for leather. Apply varnish with a cloth and dry within 24 hours. Waxing and polishing will give the product a perfect finish. Apply warm wax and polish with a clean cloth or sheepskin.

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