PhoenixNest

This is a custom design I did for a wholesale customer. Fully reversible, boar suede for the bright colours, reversing to black deerskin. I verbally gave her exclusive rights to the design. Sadly, her business is now closed, and I still have a few already cut out. I'm thinking of making them up without the chains, collar, or zipper--changing them to lace-up fronts, or perhaps lacing up the sides. It's kind of a weird situation. Apparently, the person she hired to set up her internet site copied her website, stole her contacts, her list of suppliers, and set up a competing business. Hence, her having asked for exclusive rights in the first place. It's been about two years since her shop and internet sales site closed, due in no small part to the computer programmer--a member of her own family, no less. Fellow seamstresses that made goods for her have been unable to contact her for nearly a year. I would like to use the patterns I made, a full size run from 2 to 22, as I rather like the fit, but I don't want to go back on my word regarding design. Any comments would be appreciated.

This is the inside of the purple corset.

I'm still tweaking this concept for an all purpose leather mug (read HOT coffee), while keeping the Ren Faire/ Pirate look. This one has a layer of sealed cell foam between the stainless inner and leather outer. It insulates quite well, but I haven't decided if it's worth the extra effort.

I call this colour "Dragon Scale". It's become one of my most requested colours, rivaling good old fashioned black. These metallic shades have been some of the hardest for me to get good pictures of, though.

Sometimes deerskins are just too buttery soft too resist turning them into these sort of flowing fringed things.