Guide Note:
Leather Crafting is a unique practice of making leather into craft objects or unique works of art, using either different shaping or coloring techniques and sometimes both.
Fast Facts:
- Leather dyeing involves the use of spirit or alcohol based dyes
- Leather painting is different than leather dyeing, the paint remains only on the surface of the leather, while dye absorbs into the leather
- Leather carving entails using metal tools to compress moistened leather to give a three dimensional appearance on a two dimensional surface
- Leather stamping is done with shaped stamps to create an imprint on the leather surface, using a mallet
