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Hi y'all. I'm new to leather working, but very excited. I'm an art teacher from Texas. I'm looking for a website with free project templates and good instructions. 

Any and all help is welcome. 

Thanks y'all. 

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JLS leather had some free ones on his site. If you do a search, there are lots of patterns in this site.

What are you wanting to make?

Welcome aboard

I'm not paying 80 bucks for a belt!!! It's a strip of leather. How hard could it be? 4 years and 3 grand later.... I have a belt I can finally live with.

Stitching is like gravy, it's only great if you make it every day.

From Texas but in Bossier City, Louisiana.

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@LatigoAmigo Have you used this site?  I've run across it but had always been hesitant about making a purchase.  Can you tell me a little about your experience?

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I used it to order two patterns. Download was easy, and the files contained all of the parts as promised. Seams, stitching holes, and fold lines were all indicated. A few dollars well spent.

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Also http://makesupply-leather.com/

They have a section of very good free patterns in PDF format plus an expanded section of low cost PDF patterns.

Most patterns have a very detailed video work-along tutorial.

 

Eric Fisher

Fisher Custom Leather

"A Retirement Project"

https://fishercustomleather.wordpress.com/

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8 minutes ago, Wordnerd47 said:

@bikermutt07 I'm not sure. I'll know it when I see it. But I'd like to teach a lesson on leather working. Hence the need for good instructions. Thanks everyone for your help. 

Teaching a lesson could escalate expense really fast. What age kids are you teaching?

Just thought about this....

Visit Springfield Leather's website. They have a videos page. Watch the one called how to be a hero. Heck, watch them all Kevin and Rusty are a hoot.

I'm not paying 80 bucks for a belt!!! It's a strip of leather. How hard could it be? 4 years and 3 grand later.... I have a belt I can finally live with.

Stitching is like gravy, it's only great if you make it every day.

From Texas but in Bossier City, Louisiana.

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As someone who has taught art and design and associated subjects at university level..and also at secondary and even 'lil' kids level..( and who has made their professional living as an artist , sculptor, designer for the last four and half decades, the teaching was parallel with that a few times , with some short breaks to do other things*, a couple of times )...I'm disappointed reading this thread.. Don't teach what you don't know yourself expertly..you'll risk ( certainly ) doing it badly ( you won't have the experience to know what you are talking about ) and thus maybe putting someone off the subject, maybe for life.

You wouldn't teach piano if you could only play guitar..I hope :)

Teaching what one is not expert in is hardly ethical and IMO , not honest, an other example would be teaching sword fighting, when you have only experience as a boxer..so many people have been put off art by teachers who were not themselves really any good at "art" and had no experience in many of the "artistic disciplines" that they were supposed to be teaching..Even young kids need their teacher to be an expert at what they are supposedly teaching, other wise the ones who need help are faced with someone who does not know the answers, and the ones who are good and have talent will feel / know that the teacher is a fake, and the risk then is that they think that the subject ( art or leatherwork ) is not important ( in the eyes of those who are "teaching" it , if someone who cannot do it is allowed to teach it.

Funny ( as in "funny tragic" ) how this happens so much in art teaching..and IT teaching, the "unqualified / inexperienced in the subject " "teachers", teaching specialised aspects of the subject, and thinking it is OK to be a page or an instruction sheet ahead of the ones that they are teaching.

Teaching is supposed to be about teaching ( anyone, kids or adults ) what you know about very well and have lots of experience in doing..not what you downloaded some instructions from the web about something that you do not know how to do and do not have a lot of experience in.

*including, but not limited to, military service, twice...some of us are older than the others, and have done many things besides / along side our main professions, often just for "why not" ..read Heinlein to understand why.."A human being should be able to..."

Edited by mikesc

"Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )

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