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LEATHER LACINGEMBLEM HELPS

1. Leather Lacing is the art of lacing two pieces of leather together to makea wallet or similar item.2.

Steerhide Cowhide

Sheepskin Calfskin

3. Matching:Cowhide

Sheepskin

soft, flexible leather taken from younganimals with thin hair.coarse-grained leather taken from mature animals.

Steerhide thin and soft leather taken from animals with aheavy wool covering.

Calfskin leather with a very different grain, surface,grain, surface and finish from cowhide.4.

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Single Whipstitch - The Single Whipstitch, or over-and-over stitch, isappropriate for a single thickness of leather or when the thickness of theleather does not require complete coverage by lace. This stitch is used insmall projects such as key cases, comb cases, etc. The lace required isfive times the length to be laced. Start at the corner or end hole. Insert working end oflace, rough side up, into the front of the starting hole.Pull it through, leaving 3/4" on the side facing you. Slip this 3/4" between the two thickness of leather. Ifonly one thickness is being laced, slip under adjacent loops. Bring the working end of the lace over and through the front of thenext hole. This will hold the short end in place. Pull it tight. Repeat previous step until the last stitch is completed in the final hole. To finish off this last stitch, slip the working end of the lace under thelast stitch. Pull it tight from the inside of the article and cut it off short.

Fold the project with the outside facing you and startlacing at the point where the inside of the project caneasily be reached. On wallets, it is usually at the side,while on purses it should be about four holes from thetop to the gusset (the diamond shaped insert in seam). Insert the working end of the lace, rough side up, intothe starting hole. Pull it through, leaving about one inchof lace on your side. Hold this end or tail so it stands up. Take the lace from the back starting hole and the tail,going from right to left. Hold it in place until the secondstitch is done. From the front, insert the working end of lace into thenext hole. Pull the lace through until you have a loopabout one inch in diameter. Bring the working end of the lace over and through this loop. To tighten this second stitch, pull the lace at back of thehole until tight. Then pull working end of the lace to the left until it is tight. Repeat the three steps above until the last stitch is completed in thehole next to the starting hole. Make two stitches in each corner hole.This will make your project look much neater. To finish off stitching, pull the tail out of the loop at the starting holeand insert the working end of the lace through this loop. This loopmust be in the same position as when the tail was in it.

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LEATHER LACING TERMS

Pull the one-inch tail and the working end of the lace through thestarting hole so that both are inside the project. Adjust this stitch so itlooks like the others. Cut both ends so they are 1/2" long and tuckthem against the inside laced edge.5. A good book for tooling is Leather Craft and Patterns by O,M. Campana.This can be purchased at ..www.Amazon.com ."6. Word search

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7. Definitions: Florentine lacing - Lacing of soft, pliable leather with either 3/16" or3/8" stitches used with small holes, to produce a neat, unusual type ofedging for a leather article. Skiving - Beveling (putting together) the edges of two pieces ofleather to be laced together to keep the resulting seams from beingtoo thick or bulky.

8. True or false statements: False ~Florentine lacing is of hard, unworkable leather. False - Florentine lacing requires larger 1/2" and 1/4lJ stitches. True - Florentine lacing is used with small holes and produces a neat,unusual type of edging for a leather article. True - Skiving is beveling (putting together) the edges of two pieces

of leather to be laced together. False - Skiving keeps the seams thick and bulky.DEVOTIONAL

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,which God prepared in advance for us to do. J1 (Ephesians 2:10, NIV)Following good directions when working on a leather craft or any craftproject is a necessity. Without them, you might make mistakes that wouldcause the project to come out looking funny or incomplete. If you makemistakes, your project would be far from perfect. If you do not complete yourproject, it would not be useful.The same is true of our lives. We've been given perfect directions to followthrough Jesus Christ. If we decide to put the pieces of our life together ourown way without His direction, we disregard His perfect plan and ourusefulness for Him is wasted.We need to do what God wants us to do and allow Him to fashion our livesaccording to His plan. Let's follow His directions for our lives and not ourown plan.

RESOURCES

WEBSITES

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BOOKS

Grey Owl Indian Craft Company: www.GreyOwICrafts.com.Tandy Leather Company: www.tandyleather.com.

Campana, D.M., Leather Craft and Patterns, Campana Art Company,January 1997.Groneman, Chris Harold, Leather Tooling and Carving, Dover Publications,lnc., November 1990.Maguire, Mary, Leatherwork: 25 Practical Ideas for Hand-Crafted LeatherProjects, Anness Publishing, Ltd., October 2000.Michael, Valerie, The Leatherworking Handbook: A Practical IllustratedSource Book of Techniques and Projects, Cassell PLC, March 1995.

(Smith, Monte Ted, Traditional Indian Bear and Leather Crafts, Eagles ViewPublishing, August 1989.

CRAFT RESOURCES

Grey Owl Indian Craft Company502 Atkins AvenuePO Box 185Neptune, NJ 07754-11851-800-487 -2376Tandy Leather Company1400 Everman ParkwayFort Worth, TX 761401-888-890-1611S & S CraftsPO Box 513Colchester, CT0641509513

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