BlackDragon

I agree. Some time ago MS released an AI to the public so it could learn from the general public. Within one day it turned into a vial racist that agreed with the third reich. They had to pull the plug on it and added moral rules to the AI so it wouldn't do it again. The question comes to, who becomes the AI's moral law giver? As a search engine or if you want to play around with AI it's fine but don't count on it if you really want solid advice. It's helped me keep my projects in order because I suffer from squirrel moments LOL

Great idea.

That's the rub. AI is made to be friendly and to be gentle so unless you tell it to be brutally honest or entirely objective you will get things like "That's a great idea! No one has thought of something so unique!" but then you can run into a scenario where it will be a contrarian. If you say the sky is blue it will tell you it's actually a shade of cyan that resembles blue but is not actually blue.

Now that's ingenuity!

AI needs specific prompts. If you don't feed it enough information it's like giving a 2 year old a marker and turning your back. Sure, it'll be funny to see what happens but then you'll have a mess to deal with when it's a done. LOL I decided to create an amusement park using AI. I began with "I was thinking of creating an amusement park" and I accidentally hit enter before giving it any guidelines or what theme I wanted the park to follow. It went into a LONG list of all the things I needed to put in the park. By the time it was done it had 25 roller coasters, 3 teacup rides, a hunted house, and much much more. Cedar Point had nothing on this thing LOL

I do use AI but am very careful of it. Mostly I use AI for searches but sometimes I use it to help me with thought experiments. Many times AI is going to tell what you want to hear so it's good to get human input rather than rely on just AI. Currently I'm rebinding a series of books but don't know anything about them. I asked AI for summaries on the books so I can get a feel for them and I can design the artwork.

Usually they call them Decorative Spots or just Spots. They're used a lot in headstalls and other tack. https://leathercrafttools.com/spots/list/

OK who actually puts dye on like that. I understand dipping it but the other technique are... odd. It would take an hour to finish dying something. lol

Really well done!

Also if you can tell us where you pulled the pic from, link would help, we may be able to track it down better.

Wow. One very large thread to hold the pocket down. At the very least you have a wallet to use as a template. There are a lot of youtube videos on making different types of wallets. Watch several different makers because everyone has a little different way of making their wallets. Corter leather is a good one, Don Gonzales is also very good.

Yes they do overlap a bit but Talas is one of the last companies I would buy from. I've priced their stuff for my books but when you factor in the shipping it makes it unfeasible. That $5 bone folder is $9 for shipping. I ordered $40 in bookcloth and the shipping was going to be over $30. Out of curiosity I added in some Davey's Board and the shipping went up to $71 through Fedex, they didn't give me any cheaper option to ship. So when looking at the "cheap" prices be careful of the shipping.

Along with what Fred said it also looks like they didnt skive the lower parts of the inner pockets making it bulge out. They didnt glue the layers down so it lools like it's separating along the bottom. Some of the stitch holes arent evenly spaced. Personally, I wouldn't have put stitching along the top unless there was a liner.

Not sure why I didn't remember using thread as a filler, I do this on the spine when I rebind books. I looked Catrien Coppens up a little and she does some amazing work! That would be so cool if she could do that. Maybe she would be will to do a basic webinar on the embossing.

I believe it's known as trapunto-style leather stitching. Basically it's similar to making a raised brow band but much more elaborate. You need a core made out of leather or cork, then you mold and glue your leather around the core, then stitch in place.