Technique and leather for rigid shape?

[2ndhomepacks]

Hey everyone!

I am starting a new dufflebag project and wondering what kind of leather and technique would be best to realise the shape i want. Is wet forming the best technique to use to get the exact rigid shape shown here? Or should i simply incorporate metal wiring in the seams to get the shape? Also, I do like the uniformity of chrome tanned leather but reading that vegtan seems better for wet forming. Would love some advice on this project before buying everything. 

Thanks a lot!

[Digit]

If it's chrome tan, then the rigidity comes from its shape in combination with a reinforcement material like Salpa. Metal wiring in the seams would show through.

[AlZilla]

@2ndhomepacks, it would be preferred to host those pictures here instead of your shopify account. 3rd party things tend to disappear, leaving us with potholes in the forum. Not really a requirement but a courtesy to future users.

[Digit]

You can also read the website you took the image from.

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Vachetta

Vachetta leather is vegetable-tanned using organic tannins for a natural finish. This tanning process shuns the use of manmade chemicals — prevalent in worldwide leather production — that can adversely affect the environment if improperly treated.

 

[fredk]

When I use chrome tan for bags I usually laminate it with a layer of compressed cardboard and another layer of chrome tan, the lining. The larger the bag the thicker the card

Compressed cardboard has been used for re-enforcement since at least the 1860s

[TonyV]

The design and construction of your pictured piece are what gives it most of its rigidity.  It may have some reinforcement of the floor (cardboard or fiberboard), but I suspect the sides and ends are simply just good veg tan.  I would think it will develop a measure of softness and give over years of use, but the horizontal pieces at the bottom of the ends and the billets wrapped around the sides add significantly to the stiffness.