About this class

Learn from author, artist and teacher, Melissa Cable, how to create contemporary leather jewelry with a twist.

Vegetable tanned tooling leather has a lot of the same properties as metal. You can texture it, dap it, foldform it, create anticlastic shapes, pierce it, rivet into it and more. The trick is to understand how leather moves.

As heat is to metal, water is to leather and we’ll explore the magic that happens when the two combine. We’ll take tooling leather beyond its traditional use for Western design and place a contemporary spin on it using the latest tools and materials in both the leather and metalworking worlds. 

After reviewing all of the possibilities leather has to offer, watch Melissa show you step-by-step how to create a dapped band in leather and embellish it with metal and crystal spots.

No experience necessary to get started working in this unique and creative material.

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