Sewing With Leather and Suede: A Home Sewer's Guide [Hardcover]

Sandy Scrivano (Author)

Book Description

Series: Home Sewers Guide | Publication Date: November 1998

This is the book for sewers who have always wanted to sew with leather and suede but were afraid to try...until now. Basic sewing tools, techniques, and stitches are clearly described and illustrated. Subsequent chapters tell in detail how to plan a leather garment from design and pattern adjustment to cutting, sewing, and lining. A special chapter on embellishment techniques illustrates how to make any garment a unique item.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Lark Books; 1st edition (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579900518
• ISBN-13: 978-1579900519
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #354,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This Book Is Just OK, October 13, 2000

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Caren Goodrich "caren" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sewing With Leather and Suede: A Home Sewer's Guide (Hardcover)

In writing this book, the author took advantage of the fact that there aren't many leather sewing how-to books available.

But despite the lack of good books on this subject, this book is just ok, not great. It's not a must-have book. I am a pretty big fan of Lark Books' craft books (the publisher of this book) but this Leather book is pretty slim. Some of the author's garment examples are bizarre and one-of-a-kind, which I didn't find inspiring.

If you already have any experience at all sewing leather, you don't need this book. However, if you have never sewn leather and want a few basic pointers, basic pointers are within the scope of this book.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally! An inspiring and up-to-date book on sewing leather!, February 5, 1999

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This review is from: Sewing With Leather and Suede: A Home Sewer's Guide (Hardcover)

I love books that inspire me and make me want to create! Lark Books and Sandy Scrivano did just that! Beautiful photography, detailed and practical information, an informational glossary and a generous resource list (it's one thing to create, it's another to find the stuff!). You definitely won't think 60's when reading this book... this is LEATHER WITH ATTITUDE!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, September 25, 2001

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B. Louis "sewingbunny" (Plantation, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sewing With Leather and Suede: A Home Sewer's Guide (Hardcover)

I ordered this book after my DBIL brought me back some lambskins from Ecuador. Having never worked with leather I had no clue where to start. Sandy's last article in Threads was so inspiring but I was disappointed in the book. The book will be helpful to me as far as the basics go, but samples shown in Threads magazine and online were much better - at least for my taste.