WEEK 3- Leather and Sheep-Skin

After looking back through my research I had decided that I would create a woven front to my bag, I knew that the company which sold and suplied the leather would be coming later on in the day. For weaving I would only need strips of leather and as I wanted my colour scheme to be a variety of blues I didn't want to buy lots of large leathers.I worked with the group and explained that I was creating a woven front and so would need strips of any blue leathers and they were very helpful and I gained a variety of coloured blue leather.

At around eleven o'clock the spokesman for the company came in to sell the group leathers of our choice at the discounted price of five pounds.Before selling us the skins he explained how there were many different types of leather and different animal from which they come from I learnt that pig suede could be bought and is a well used material this was something I was oblivious to before the talk. Throughout the talk the man kept reiterating how their company was an ethical company and all of its leathers and skins were a by product of the meat industry and the animals were not killed purely for their skins. I hadn't realised that using leather bothered me slightly however once I found out that the skins with only a by product my mind was settled and I felt allot more comfortable using the materials. I purchased the leather that I would use for the side panels back and strap of the bag and so after lunch began making my pattern

As I learnt from making my paper bag in the first week, I was very exact about the measurements when creating my pattern and so the process of creating my pattern and transferring it onto the leather was something I found quite simple and enjoyable. However when it came to my strap I didn't have enough leather left and had to go into another pieces with a lighter tone this didn't matter as I was creating a woven front to my bag I could just incorporate the straps leather into the weave, from this I learnt that if I was to do it again I wound create and have my pattern pieces with me whilst choosing the leather to make sure I had enough.