Tooling A Leather Strap With Metal Stamps – Tutorial

I can’t wait to get out of socks and boots and into sandals! Here I made tooled one-strap sandals for my children’s grandmother who lives on the other side of the world in Chile, they are in the middle of summer now…

Tooled one strap leather sandals diy

Tooling leather straps is one way of adding sparkle to your leather projects. It’s taken me so long to find out about all the different ways to decorate leather that I thought I document whatever new I learn with each project I undertake.

Here is one way to tool leather to get the look you see on the sandals above.

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Sneak Peek Into Sandal Making Book

Here is another sneak peek into my now really soon to be available e-book “How To Make Unique Leather Sandals”.

sandal making book

The above sandals are the first project of the book, they are easy to make as there are no straps to cut or buckles to attach, and they offer lots of space for decoration….

Here are sneak peeks 1 and 2 of the sandal making book.

Update

The e-book How To Make Leather Sandals is available now!

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Making Sandals At Home – A preview of my upcoming book

This is another preview into my upcoming e-book on making sandals at home. I’m in the finishing phase, it’s so exciting to finally come to an end with something I started 2 years ago!

making sandals
Sandals embroidered with a goat’s skin leather cord

How come I began making my own sandals? As with clothes I seldom found sandals, or shoes for that matter, that I really liked. I always had to settle for what was available.

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