Boiled Leather Vases

[costumeclaire]

I am brand new to this forum, and very new to leather work in general. I am self taught so I really don't know what I am doing, but am happy with my results and having a blast playing!

I am curious to hear what other leather workers think of my "stuff"

thans

[Northmount]

This is really neat. Great idea. It's great to see other people's ideas and work. Gives great inspiration.

Tom

[Havamal]

Welcome aboard!

You will find this site a great resourse for ideas and information and the people are great when it comes to input!

Those vases are pretty cool!

What are you lining coating the interior with for water proofing?

[whiteeugene]

Those are really neat do you form them over something to keep the shape, what grade of leather do you use and what kind of paint or stain.

Thanks Doug

[mikesmith648]

sweet!!!

[costumeclaire]

I have been using a 3-4 mm veg tanned leather, I wrap it around a mold then a few minutes after dipping in boiling in water I remove them (otherwise they get a little hard to take off) then I treat in a variety of different ways, for me it is all experimental, of the vases I show here the darker one is dyed using a water based leather dye, they are both finished with leathe balm with atom wax. the basket is finished on the inside with a leather edge paint because I did not like the look of dye on the back of the leather and it is what I had on hand, not sure it is the right thing to be using if some one has a suggestion on a better finish I would love to know. the other vase is not water proof,

[immiketoo]

Those are, well, beautiful!

[immiketoo]

Claire, you should spray truck bed liner or something like that inside those. Then they would be waterproof!

[RClubb]

Nice! Cool idea.

[keableleather]

Very interesting and creative! I like!