Leathercraft for Absolute Beginners: Learn the 9 Core Techniques and Make 15 Real Projects - Step-by-Step, with Full Cutting Lists for Every Piece

By Richard Leonard Lorke

You have never touched a knife to leather. By the end of this book you will have made fifteen things.

Most leatherwork books assume you already own a bench full of tools and know what a saddle stitch looks like. This one starts earlier than that - with which piece of leather to buy, how to hold the knife, and why your first cut wanders.

Nine core techniques are taught one at a time, each on its own spread, each with a photograph of what the finished result should look like. Then you build fifteen projects that use them, in the order they get harder.

Inside this book: 9 core techniques - cutting, skiving, beveling, grooving, punching, saddle stitching, burnishing, cutting long straps, and turning a corner15 projects from a flat bookmark to a watch strap, each with a full cutting list, numbered steps and a troubleshooting boxExact sizes for every piece - no guesswork, no pattern sheets to photocopyThe twelve tools you actually need, and the ones you can put off buyingA practice piece before the first project, so you make your mistakes on scrapA finder table at the back: every technique and project with its page numberWho this is for:

Complete beginners. Anyone who has bought a starter kit and does not know where to begin. Anyone who wants to make a wallet, a belt or a dog collar by hand and keep it for twenty years.

Every project is sized in inches, uses hardware you can buy anywhere, and takes an evening or a weekend.

Scroll up and start with the bookmark.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HB79398Q
• ISBN13: 9798188739669
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"