Book "HOW TO CARVE LEATHER" - Techniques to carve leather - Al Stohlman

Through this book, Al Stohlman reveals the fundamental steps of leather embossing to enhance your creations in vegetable tanned leather (bag, notebook, belt, label holder...).
It explains step-by-step and with many illustrations how to draw, carve, highlight and color dozens of animals (horses, cats, dogs, cows, forest animals...) and stage them in various landscapes (forests, rivers, mountains, floral ornaments...).

Throughout the pages, Al Stohlman teaches you how to make more than 60 patterns and reveals many tricks to make the drawings more realistic: create a movement effect, make the eyes expressive... At each stage, he lists the tools used and the numbers of the stamps to achieve the different effects.

A must-have book to learn or perfect spinning techniques. In addition to technical advice, it is full of drawings to reproduce on your creations. To your layers!

This book explains the methods of dyeing and proposes shades to be made on animal drawings. It also gives instructions for creating round bags, gusseted bags, belts... It also includes patterns to reproduce, an alphabet and even decorations for your Christmas cards.

For more details on the patterns presented in this book, you can consult the summary in photo 2.

The explanations are in English , but the many visuals make it easier to understand the instructions.

Author: Al Stohlman

Distributed by Tandy Leather Factory