Embossing technique on the skin can decorate any leather wardrobe subject or accessory. But such treatment of leather products requires considerable effort and skill. But there is a simpler way to make embossing on the skin with your own hands - with the help of a cliché.
This is a simplified opportunity to decorate a handbag, a purse or notepad that will revitalize and make an uninteresting wardrobe item unique.
Having mastered this technique, you can not worry about to give your friends and relatives. The gift performed this way will always be expensive and exclusive.
The photo demonstrated work decorated with embossed.
Materials of the case
The skin for embossing should be selected only vegetable oak (plants, in particular oak). Its main difference from the skin after chemical treatment is that it can absorb water. And this is one of the main properties of the skin applied in embossed. From such a material they do not sew objects of clothing or furniture. But in embossed it is important to use such skin.
There are many ways to emboss. But at home, it is most often embossing with a cliché, which is an essential tool for this. The technology of its use is simple: so that the image with the cliché is transferred to the skin, it is hit by a hammer.
Cliché or masters stamps are purchased in stores or manufactured themselves. On metal plates using a special tool make engraving in the mirror reflection, which will be imprinted and leave the drawing on the leather product. The depth of the lines of engraving must be at least 3 mm.
Flat metal objects with bulk ornament (buttons, coins) are also used as a cliché.
For uniform impact strength when stuffing the drawing, the cliché handle makes less than the hammer working surface.
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Also, stencils with different images and patterns can also be considered tools.
Master's business is afraid
Embossing is blind and congregated. Blind embossing is stamps, hammer and leather. More tools and materials are not required. The embossing drawing looks like an indulged. The quality of the print depends on the strength applied to the cliché (the impact force hammer, pressure pressure).
Congress type of embossing is reversed. The drawing will be volumetric, convex. This type involves the use of the matrix for drawing and counterchairs.
To emboss the skin with a thickness of no more than 1.2 mm, use a cold way. The drawing in this case is obtained by the method of skinning the skin. For skin with a thickness of more than 1.2 mm, you can use hot stamping. In this case, for imprinting cliche imposing heating.
Very popular way - stamping foil. This method gives a stunning result, provided that the correct materials are selected. And sufficient accuracy is manifested when embossing.
Attempt at writing
You can try your hand in home embossed on the skin, decorating the golden print notepad or handbag. This offers a simple master class, which will give an idea of the complexity of embossing on the skin.
For first experience it is not recommended to take some expensive thing. It is necessary to choose something simple that it is not a pity to throw away in case of failure.
Need to prepare:
- solid surface;
- iron;
- Thermofolga. Despite the trial experience, the choice of foil needs to be approached, in order not to spoil the expected result;
- Flat metal object with a convex pattern on the surface to be used as a cliché;
- Scroll of leather or object on which it is necessary to make embossing.
Procedure:
- Put the skin or selected leather object on a solid surface;
- Cut the foil in the size of the selected pattern;
- Apply the carved piece of thermofolns to the skin;
- Heated iron put on a foil and keep about 60 seconds on it;
- When the thermofolga warms up quite well, removing the iron and immediately apply clichés to it (metal button with relief pattern);
- Highly davir on the cliché within a minute.
This is a very simplified embossing option, but even in this case it is important to withstand hot iron enough and then cliché on foil so that the result does not disappoint.
Leather things and leather items have always treated the expensive market segment. And various embossing technologies on the skin translate these items from the category of expensive in the category of luxurious. It is believed that only rich people can afford things with nominal or highly artistic embossed. But modern technologies made them available for most people who wish to have something extraordinary and unique.
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Also, these technologies make it possible to show their skills to creative people with a rich art imagination and the desire to create exclusive items.
