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Finished this bag a little over a week ago as one of the accessories for my capsule collection Collateral
I'm super happy with how it came out!
Smooth oil calf leather was used for the bag. The body was constructed, hand-sewn and then boiled followed by crushing and hot air drying. The 5' long twisted strip is a continuous piece from the flap and can either be looped indiana-jones style off to one side or if you're carrying a lot of stuff can be wrapped around the body of the bag to help keep things closed. Texturally, the body of the bag is different than the shoulder strap and the twisted strip.
The strap is stitched together and to the bag (anchored with sideways T stitches and the two pieces of leather forming the strap are stitched together and to the bag via the XXXXX stitches (they are XXXX's in the inside as well. Clean.) in the center back of the bag.
The strap is adjustable at 3 settings using hand-hammered, welded and heavily oxidized silver hardware (the closure mechanism I'm currently filing a patent for, so uh... patent pending I guess
. Also a reason why I'm not showing clear photos of it just yet). There is a similarly treated silver rectangular link on the other side of the strap for continuity.
This is just a glimpse of everything coming
I'm super happy with how it came out!
Smooth oil calf leather was used for the bag. The body was constructed, hand-sewn and then boiled followed by crushing and hot air drying. The 5' long twisted strip is a continuous piece from the flap and can either be looped indiana-jones style off to one side or if you're carrying a lot of stuff can be wrapped around the body of the bag to help keep things closed. Texturally, the body of the bag is different than the shoulder strap and the twisted strip.
The strap is stitched together and to the bag (anchored with sideways T stitches and the two pieces of leather forming the strap are stitched together and to the bag via the XXXXX stitches (they are XXXX's in the inside as well. Clean.) in the center back of the bag.
The strap is adjustable at 3 settings using hand-hammered, welded and heavily oxidized silver hardware (the closure mechanism I'm currently filing a patent for, so uh... patent pending I guess
. Also a reason why I'm not showing clear photos of it just yet). There is a similarly treated silver rectangular link on the other side of the strap for continuity.This is just a glimpse of everything coming
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