WEEK 4- Leather and Sheep-Skin

This week was the week of the construction of my bag, I began with the strap as it was the longest piece of my bag and so would hypothetically take the longest amount of time, my thinking was that after making the strap I would get an inkling as to how much waxed thread I would use and the amount of time it would take to sew the bag. Robin showed my two different ways of making the strap one quicker and the other more time consuming, I chose the latter one as I felt it gave a more professional finish to the strap.

constructing the strap was a very time consuming process however I found that it took much less waxed thread than I initially though it would do. I then sewed the back to the width of the bag and began constructing my woven front piece. I cut a variety of thickness' and colour blue and black strips of leather and played around with the placement. I wrapped strips of leather around other strips to create the circular pattern I had seen on the heltaskelta and candy floss sticks and used these more textural strips within my weave. The weaving process itself I found quite fiddly as the leather would move around in the weave and so I decided to add a small amount of glue to the edges of each strip to keep it in place this was very efficient as it kept all the strip in the correct placement and the process became allot simpler.