Spot of leather-work I’ve been playing with recently! These are wallet fronts, if I ever get around to cutting out the inners and stitching them together.
As you can see, not much has changed :p I’m in need of a shave and a haircut as much as ever ha!
Okay, why am I still awake?! Bed time, bed time!
Goodnight.
xoxo
-Tobias
Richard Madden, Kit Harington, Gwendoline Christie, Joe Dempsie and Rose Leslie
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Okay, so this is embarrassing!
I haven’t been around in what can only be called a very long time! Well actually, no, we could call it a variety of things, like an age; or an excessively long time; or ‘forever’. The list goes on probably.
I’m not going to try and explain, it was nothing serious, I just found other things to occupy me and slowly I somehow stopped logging in ha!
But I’m going to try and start posting again, from time to time. We’ll see, no promises and all that, but yes, we’ll see. I have a new project I’m working on at the moment, so I might at least have some new pictures some time soon.
I hope you’re all well, and sorry I haven’t been around.
xx
-Tobias
That’s pretty awesome! This kind of chain and scale work must take such a long time!
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Okay, I’m not going to make comment on my absence, at least, not more than I already have. I keep apologizing for it and then doing it again… so let’s just move one :p
Soooo Yoga bolster! This is something which has taken rather longer than it should! I printed the fabric, just using strips of paper masking tape as a sort of simple ‘stencil’ and then I got held up by a certain lack of anything thing to fill it with!
I thought I’d use some of those ‘carrier’s blankets’, which are sort of rough, felted cotton rug things, but I just never seemed to get around to tracking some down haha! Then suddenly, after the project had sat dormant for months and months, I realized we have a whole load of surplus woolen building insulation which is perfect! It was lying there in a huge pile right in front of me almost the whole time :D
Anyway, I’m rather pleased, I got to use it the day after I made it, and I have to say it performed in it’s, admittedly simple, task rather well.
So once again I haven’t been around, I guess we’ll all just have to accept that as a fact of life. Anyway, here’s a few crazy shots from around Halloween. Sadly my costume this year was rather lazy-ish… except that I made these gloves! That was about it, an old jacket I mad at uni and some eyeliner, or ‘guyliner’ if you prefer (and what the heck did I do to my hair?!) and here I am, looking like… maybe an unfortunate combination of Noel Fielding; David Bowie; and I don’t know what else! ;p But I promised photos, so here you go.
Oh yeah, worth mentioning, the gloves have wax hardened fingertips/claws and knuckles respectively! It’s a really cool and surprisingly easy technique, you basically melt wax, in this case bees wax (it smells amazing!), and then paint it on the back of the leather. I found that if you heat it with a hair dryer or heat gun it re-melts and soaks in better. Then once it starts to harden you can mold the leather into shape and it sets and goes rather hard! Awesome, effective, and actually quite traditional.
So hello helloooo! I haven’t been around, once again, in oh such a long time! Sorry!
Anyway, these are my latest project, a commissioned leather cup! Sort of a medieval tankard thing, without a handle. They’re made from approximately 5mm thick ‘sole bend’ leather and waterproofed/stiffened with natural bees wax. So they smell lovely! haha :D
The first wasn’t shaped enough so I had to make a more cone shaped one. Actually what is apparently called a truncated cone in fact, for which I used a number of tools I found online for working out the proportions and even ensuring that it would hold a metric pint! haha :D So I used and this Volume Calculator to get the size right, and then Cone Layout 2.0.4 to actually work out the ‘net’ or flat pattern for the cup, pretty scientific wouldn’t you say? :p
Anyway, rather fun and got my re-inspired to do more leather work :D Hopefully it will be of interest to someone.
This is a new technique I’m trying with polymer clay. I’m not going to give too much away, but these I designed in Photoshop and transferred to the clay. I’m thinking of doing some jewelry, rings and pendants/badges maybe? These ones are about a standard large badge size, about 2 inches across the image. Obviously I haven’t trimmed/finished these yet in any way.
Designs are copyright to me Tobias ‘Lockhart’ - please don’t use them for any purpose without my express permission. Not that the image quality is good enough :p
A recent commission. Nearly finished, just needs lining. Sorry for poor photo quality! This was taken with my phone and a) the camera isn’t amazing, plus b) the lighting wasn’t very good.
That reminds me however, I should take a picture of the leather phone back-plate I made!
