Learning Leatherwork?

[pellegrino]

I live in Italy and here there are no places or courses where you can learn this marvelous art... so I am an autodidact

I wonder what would be the program to follow to learn about leatherwork and I would be curious if there are some among you that can give me an idea about a program to follow in a "tipical" course.

someone has a program that can suggest to me?

I think that in your country there are many courses... is it possible to know about the program and its contents?

thanks in advance

falco pellegrino

[Darkbeer]

I live in Italy and here there are no places or courses where you can learn this marvelous art... so I am an autodidact

I wonder what would be the program to follow to learn about leatherwork and I would be curious if there are some among you that can give me an idea about a program to follow in a "tipical" course.

someone has a program that can suggest to me?

I think that in your country there are many courses... is it possible to know about the program and its contents?

thanks in advance

falco pellegrino

Hi, I know very little of leatherwork but since you have had no answers I will jump in. There seem to be a wide variety of books and DVD's that can be found on the net, I myself am trying to learn from books and reading all I can on this site and anyplace else on the web I can find info. As far as a program, I assume you mean a computer program I do not know of any but I have not looked.

Good luck,

Tim

[celticleather]

There are a number of useful tutorials at http://www.bowstock..../tutorials.html, and a lot of information can be found at http://www.kingsmerecrafts.com/ (scroll to foot of page).

Another very useful source of information is The Leatherworking Handbook by Valerie Michael, with step-by-step guides to a number of projects.

[jinrui73]

Paul Burnett offers excellent lessons on leather carving and they're reasonably priced and downloadable. I'm using them and they are fantastic!

www.paintingcow.com. Check it out.

[pellegrino]

Thanks a lot to you all.....

i'm looking the diferent web-sites and really enjoy discovering this end-less art

Regards from Roma

[tat2]

Thanks a lot to you all.....

i'm looking the diferent web-sites and really enjoy discovering this end-less art

Regards from Roma

Hello! I would suggest read read read!!! Many of the great leather working books were printed int he 70"s all had visual step by step aids to aid you in the project your making. then Post online here for feedback. Ask as many questions as possible as this leather trade there is so much one needs to know in order to make a decent product.

Your in Italy man one of the leading best leather machine makers of the world!! so if you ever need machiner your in the right country!

I have some extra books I no longer need, I bought them for my apprentice but she have some already.