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ABCs........Page 4

Every Kind of Vanity....Page 11

Workshop........Page 25

The last article of the cycle from Nikolay Kostin. This is from the series “Every Crafter Should Know About It”. The entire cycle is highly recommended for study.

ProductionLeather Defects

from First Person

We Survived inCRAFTCON — 2019 was the most significant event for crafters this year.It passed November 2 to 4 in St. Petersburg.An event of this magnitude has left a sea of impressions among the participants and to cover it in detail is our task.But its organizers will be the first to tell about it: Alexander Popov and Valentina Ivanova in the article “Craftcon from First Person”.We told about our impressions in the next article “We survived in Craftcon”.

Broke... Build!As I promised, the epic with the briefcase will be long. And this issue is also not over yet. The whole article we will do the back cover of it.We will make an inner pocket, adjust the zipper and the shape of the cover to each other, carve and sew the upper part of the two halves.

...VS...........Page 38

Old ...VS... NewAnd I have a new knife from Pavel Pavlov! Although I still did not “grind” the old one.How do they differ? What are they like?

Let us compare at leisure in which direction the master is moving. What has changed in the form of knives, parameters, features.Old and new.

Masters........Page 40

Workshop........Page 44

If we talk about magic of leather then in relation to Julia Vlasova this will not be a figurative expression.Julia specializes in such interesting things as covers for witchcraft books, cartridges for runes and the like...

Leather Style

Where to buy leather? For St. Petersburg people this question has an almost unambiguous answer: «On Lomanaya str., 11».The Soviet shoe factory «Victoria» of the «Skorokhod» concern was located at this address.

Now there are many shops for leather crafters. In one of them, Leather Style, we talked with the owner Olga Ruvinsky.Olga will tell about her business and what she can offer to us, masters.

It was my birthday again. As usual, once a year.And again they gave me a wonderful piece for the workshop. Toothed scissors!These are widely used to create classic men’s shoes, usually with a brogging.

They cut the external contour of parts, for example, a sock.This edge is beautifully combined with brogging (punching holes along the edge of the part). Now I have one too.

In Details........Page 50

Webbed wings

Carving two webbed wings together...In Details.

MAGIC LEATHER

Our Wears........Page 53

Experiment........Page 61

Little Leather Slipper........Page 58

Braiding........Page 65

Leather Hat for Pattern Dieselpunk.ro

Hats are out of fashion now. But still there are people who wear them.The topic of hats has been interesting to me for a long time but hands do not reach it at all.Suddenly, an article from Alexey

Popov about how he made a hat turned up. I asked Alexey to share this article in our magazine and he kindly agreed!Learning how to make a leather hat with Alexei Popov!

Leather shoes on ancient RussiaHistorical excursion into the past. What leather shoes were made and used before?

What is the difference between «porshni», «botinki» and «sapogi». Who could afford such shoes and why?

At Craftcon, Sergey Kukhta saw the original of my cover in the style of Palekh. And he said that there is not enough gilding here.This thought caught me. Having returned home, I decided to experiment with gold. And this is what came of it.

Let’s Make a Floggerfrom start to finish

The title speaks for itself. We make a device called “flogger” from beginning to end. In detail and with all the subtleties.Of course, we do it the way I usually do, based on my experience. After all, the manufacturing options are many different.

Gold of Palekh