Round leather cords
Here’s an easy , fun way to leather cords that’s coiled up too tightly to be easily used.
When you buy leather cord for creating jewelry, it often comes wrapped around a spool :
When you’ve bought several yards or meters of leather cord, the spool may be a handy thanks to keep it untangled. But the downside is that when the cord has been coiled round the spool, it often acquires that curve and refuses to uncurl when you’re able to make jewelry with it.
So here’s what I do.
It’s a way that traditional leather workers have used for hundreds of years to straighten and soften leather cord.
I have a set of bone beads (see them within the photo above) that I’ve encounter just from buying various bead lots that had natural beads in them.
I saved these particular bone beads aside because they need hole sizes that accommodate the leather cord widths I often use.
After I stop the length of round leather cord i want for a project, I simply run it back and forth through one among the beads a couple of times, to melt the cord and take the curl out of it.
Important:
For best results, you would like to angle the bead slightly as you are doing this, in order that it scrapes across the surface of the leather.
The scraping is what softens the cord and relaxes the curl.
I find that after the leather is softened and relaxed like this, it’s much nicer to figure with as a jewellery making component.
It also takes on a really nice “distressed” quality.
I think what I especially enjoy about using this system is knowing that our ancestors used this same method in creating things. i prefer feeling connected to them by doing things an equivalent way they did.
Contact details:
Call us: +31-62-7061933, +31-646335825
Mail us: info@sunenterprises.eu
When you buy leather cord for creating jewelry, it often comes wrapped around a spool :
When you’ve bought several yards or meters of leather cord, the spool may be a handy thanks to keep it untangled. But the downside is that when the cord has been coiled round the spool, it often acquires that curve and refuses to uncurl when you’re able to make jewelry with it.
So here’s what I do.
It’s a way that traditional leather workers have used for hundreds of years to straighten and soften leather cord.
I have a set of bone beads (see them within the photo above) that I’ve encounter just from buying various bead lots that had natural beads in them.
I saved these particular bone beads aside because they need hole sizes that accommodate the leather cord widths I often use.
After I stop the length of round leather cord i want for a project, I simply run it back and forth through one among the beads a couple of times, to melt the cord and take the curl out of it.
Important:
For best results, you would like to angle the bead slightly as you are doing this, in order that it scrapes across the surface of the leather.
The scraping is what softens the cord and relaxes the curl.
I find that after the leather is softened and relaxed like this, it’s much nicer to figure with as a jewellery making component.
It also takes on a really nice “distressed” quality.
I think what I especially enjoy about using this system is knowing that our ancestors used this same method in creating things. i prefer feeling connected to them by doing things an equivalent way they did.
Contact details:
Call us: +31-62-7061933, +31-646335825
Mail us: info@sunenterprises.eu
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