Using a Meander/Serpentine Stamp in leatherwork

A leather craft video discussing using a Meander/Serpentine style leathercraft border stamp in your leatherwork. WC also discusses cutting lines for border stamps as well as lines in Sheridan Style Carving

Meander/Serpentine Leather tools: http://www.sbearstradingpost.com/stampingtools1.html#D

Enjoy this leather crafting videol created by WC Owner of Standing Bear's Trading Post and Leather by WC http://www.sbearstradingpost.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• leathercraft
• leatherwork
• leather tools
• meander
• serpentine
• leather stamping
• leather carving
• Standing bear's Trading Post

[pipinfool]

Great advice. Really glad I saw this before getting into meanders. Probably saved me lots of cussing.

[StandingBears]

@pipinfool Glad we could help!

[Shankb777]

Camera angle was not at all helpful

[StandingBears]

@Shankb777 This video was done, not as a tutorial but a demo being done for The Leathercraft Guild during a meeting at Standing Bear's Trading Post. therefore camera angle etc. are not great for instructional purposes. My apologies to those watching it in this regard. Hopefully some of the verbal conversation discussed will assist you some.

Sandi ~ For Standing Bear's Trading Post.

[StandingBears]

To demonstrate the clockwise/counter/clockwise carving: draw 2 identical circles, carve one clockwise and the other counter clockwise then set the template you used to trace them on the leather over these cut designs and see if one if not smaller or larger than the other. The reason for this is that a right handed person carving clockwise will be slightly off center to the right of the traced line & a right handed person carving counter clockwise will be offset to the inside of the line.