Pics

 By: AndyFerrari    11:14  design, florence, italy, leather, scuola del cuoio   No comments

Those moments when all the people in the world decided, at the same time, to use the sewing machine...

You'd think the tables remained clean and pretty. Give it 15 min and it was all turned upside down =p

Lots of concentration....

Pics completely stolen from teacher's facebook (still problems with the camera...)

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Some more

 By: AndyFerrari    05:31  bag, course, design, florence, leather   No comments

More pictures from the course at Scuola del Cuoio

While waiting for the sewing machine, I took the time to figure a way to make a thumbring for the chinese archery classes at the Pa Kua school. It's not the most amazing thing in the world, but it works fine XD

And here is the final result of the project. The strap didn't came out exactly like I wanted, but it was really hard to find enought leather to make such a long braid. I actually like the colors, but it turned out a lot more rustic than I expected.

Here, just a close shot from the front buttons.

And here, the inside. No lining, open pocket.

Later I'll make some decent shots from the hole, done bag =]

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Classes are over....

 By: AndyFerrari    04:58  bag, bags, course, design, florence, leather   No comments

And I managed to get some of the pictures.

Our final project for the course was a bag. I chose a rather simple design, since I decided to hand stitch it (just poking the leather to make the holes takes a hole lot of time...)

Here's a closer view of the stitching, from a side piece.

The cut pieces before being stitched together.

I decided to have no lining on it, and leave all the sides raw. The only part that was sewed from the inside and turned, were the bottom corners.

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My house and the course

 By: AndyFerrari    16:38  course, design, house, leather, room   No comments

Just some pictures so you know what's going on

This is cutting tool.....

This is people from the course at Scuola del Cuoio...

This is room....

This is people from the course at IED (lots of sun)

And this is going to be glasses protector (first project on the Scuola del Cuoio)

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