Description

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Leather Craft

1. List the necessary tools a beginner needs in leather craft and demonstrate the proper use of each.
2. Know how to distinguish different kinds of leather, such as calf, goat, and imitation leather. What leathers are most suitable for tooling?
3. Give the steps necessary in the preparation of leather.
4. Transfer a design to leather, and tool and lace some object in leather, such as a billfold, magazine cover, belt, key keeper, or small purse.
5. Show how to use leather dye.
6. What kind of finish should be used on leather?

Skill Level 1
Original Honor 1937

Leather Craft, Advanced

1. Have the Leather Craft Honor.
2. Show how to punch holes, set snaps, do saddle stitching, and do two types of lacing.
3. Make a sheath for a hatchet, knife, or ax.
4. Complete a figure-carved belt, doing your own tooling.
5. From your own design, cut from leather, tool, punch, and lace a project such as a case, purse, bag, or an equivalent.
6. Show six leather items you have made.

Skill Level 2
Original Honor 1977

Arts, Crafts & Hobbies
General Conference
2001 Edition