I guess answering this is as good of place to start as any. So what is leather work? It’s the art of taking leather hides and turning them into something amazing. These goods can be wallets, saddles, boots, clothing, purses, furniture, backpacks, and whips, just to name a few. Leather work is a pretty general term that covers a wide variety of styles, skills, and types of crafting done with leather. Someone can be an expert in one area of the craft and a complete beginner at another. For instance: I’ve been doing general crafting for 2 years. I’m by no means an expert, but I can pretty effortl ..read more

Ok, so now you’ve learned about the different types of leather and grabbed the one that suits your needs. You’ve figured out which tools you will need and picked those up. Where do you go next? Well, now you need to learn how to use a leather work pattern. Most people start out by downloading free patterns and making those. Creating a leather work pattern is an art in itself and it would just be needlessly difficult to try to learn to make templates while you also learn the leather craft basics. Where to Find a Leather Work Pattern A quick search on Google for “free leather work pattern”, “fre ..read more

If you’ve already looked into what leather work is and the different types of leather, the natural next question to ask yourself is “what leather tools do I need?” Its really easy to go down the rabbit hole looking at the fanciest and high-end leather tools. You’ll find that the price tag can quickly add up doing this. There are some really nice tools out there, but if you are new to leather work, you don’t really know which tools you’ll actually use yet. It is definitely in your best interest to get some half-decent beginner leather tools to figure out which tools you actually use, if you’re ..read more

This isn’t going to be a long-winded first blog post. I simply wanted to welcome you to How To Leather Work! My name is Tim and I run Black Flag Leather Goods. I decided to start How to Leather Work as more of a leather working course for beginners. It will obviously feature some of my content from the YouTube channel, but I wanted this to just be a one-stop shop for people starting their journey who search “how to leather work” on Google. I want the people still in the “how do you even get started doing this” phase of their journey to be able to come here and start working through a list to g ..read more