Crafts There are so many things you can do with leather and so many ways to treat it that you will be working with it for a long time before you have mastered every aspect of leathercraft. Yet, despite this fact, you can begin to create things made of leather immediately and with no training.

The Tandy Leather Company, which has five stores in and near New York City and many others throughout the country, makes your first lessons in leathercraft simple and productive. Tandy and many hobby shops sell complete kits for leather workers. Each kit contains all the materials needed to make one item and complete instructions so simple that even a tyro can follow them successfully.

The kits are highly recommended for the beginner. They break you in slowly but surely and prepare you to tackle the more involved phases of leathercraft. The Tandy man (or woman) knows leathercraft and can give you sound advice on the choice of leathers for different purposes and on the tools you need.

A good book for the beginner is Leather Work by Grete Petersen, published by Sterling Craft Books in 1960. Another that is recommended is General Leathercraft, by Raymond Cherry, published by McKnight & McKnight in 1949. The latter book has 365 photographs, with some fine how-to illustrations.




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October 6, 2008