Leather bracelet with own hands: photo, video, master-class
Braided bracelets made of leather are universalaccessory. Leather bracelets remain in the trend for several fashionable seasons. Bracelets come in a variety of colors and shapes. They can be both female and male.
In this case, a leather bracelet, as in the photo, canlook and elegant, and extravagant. It all depends on the braiding scheme of the leather bracelet, which you can make yourself. How to learn how to weave bracelets? More about this in our step-by-step master class with photos and videos.
You will need small pieces of skin for this. They may not be new.
Weaving "pigtail" - one of the most simple and beautiful solutions for a leather bracelet, which will suit both men and women. Pigtails can be weaved in several ways.
Simple leather bracelets with your own hands:
It will take a strip of skin long in the girth of the wrist plus 2 centimeters. The width of the leather bracelet can be any.
You can try to make a narrow bracelet around2-3 centimeters. Using a punch hole, you need to make holes at the ends of the workpiece. Through these holes, you can skip laces, or fasten the metal button. This is a universal workpiece for the bracelet.
Such a workpiece can also be decorated with rivets orpatterned holes. The master class on manufacturing a leather bracelet suggests to learn how to make an unusual weaving by a pigtail. Unusual lies in the fact that the pigtail will not be trailed from separate parts. This weaving is not split, but quite simple.
Learning to weave bracelet from the skin: step by step photo lesson
1. Using a ruler, divide the width of the bracelet into three equal parts. Make marks, hold with a knife, making 2 cut along. There are 3 strips, from which will be plaited pigtail. 1 strip is left. 2 strip is central. 3 strip - right.
2. Secure one end of the bracelet. It's easier to work with weaving. You can put it under a load or tie it to something. You can also use paint tape and glue the tip of the bracelet to the table.
3. Lift the end of the bracelet, pass through strips 2 and 3. Lower down (move away from yourself). The strips will begin to wrap (as necessary, they will be straightened at the very end). Lower the end of the bracelet down.
4. Interlace left strip and center. Interlace the right strip through the central strip. End the bracelet between 1 and 2 strips. This should straighten the wrapped strips.
5. Interlace the right strip through the center, twist the left strip with the center strip. Skip the end of the bracelet through 2 and 3 strips. The strips will close again.
6. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the bracelet is finished.
Different skin behaves differently. Much depends on its thickness and softness. But in any case, the last step is to straighten the bracelet.
Some bracelets are denser, some- freer. It does not depend on the weaving technique, but how much the skin itself is plastic. Having mastered one variant of weaving, you can learn to weave bracelets in different techniques with your own hands.
The scheme that we have given will become the basis, evenfor beginners it is easy to learn how to weave bracelets from the skin. Leather bracelet is not suitable except for a business dinner or a trip to the theater. For other cases, you can actively use leather accessories. They are especially recommended for country, kazhual, ethnic and many other styles.
Video: how to make a leather bracelet with your own hands
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Author: Katerina Sergeenko