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Hello.

I have trouble finding any information about welt. The piece of leather in a tube form that is used between sides of the handbag.

On the first picture "welt" is attached to the sides of Hermes Kelly bag.

Thank you .

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Go to about 3:40 in this video:

Any Questions?

Art

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This is for boots, but same principle

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Thank you every one for respond. Videos are really helpful.

Another question.

What kind of cord or pipe can I use, to get this kind of result ( as on picture ) ? And where can I buy them ?

Many thanks in advance.

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Cotton cord, parachute cord, poly, nylon, rope. They should have what you need at the hardware store or JoAnn, Michael, Hobby Lobby etc.

Art

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thread and thinned down leather.

The hard part is when the piping is tucked under and connecting two ends of piping seamlessly is difficult too. The picture you posted is the most difficult because the excess bulk of the leather on the inside is hard to manage, it has to be well thought out and executed for it to work.

Just a straight line is simple enough.

In my opinion this is probably one of the harder if not hardest skill to master, to get the leather to manipulate the EXACT way you need it to go.

If you do figure it out let me know.

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DavidL

Do you think Hermes is trimming the leather strips on a sides before folding it? It's hard to say from the picture.

I saw this technique in Japanese Leather book

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based on the picture, I can see they do not skive it on the edges, only the entire piece. Both ways will work though.

Looking at the second picture I posted I think I figured it out. Take the notch and align that notch edge to the edge of the bag part.

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