You won’t see personal style in your embossing at first. You won’t see it in the examples either. It will evolve over time as you make consistent choices, develop preferences, encounter limitations, and practice. At first, you will be concerned…
Consistency is a sneaky problem when hand embossing leather. It’s one thing for individual impressions to appear properly formed, and quite another for all of them to match across the length of a border. Each time a tool strikes the…
How is depth created in leather embossing? By adding more pressure to the tool? Unfortunately, no. In fact, adding more pressure to the tool is exactly the wrong way to go about creating depth in a piece. Like so many…
While embossing can be seen as a primarily aesthetic practice, it is fundamentally about pressure, time, and thought. Each mark pressed into the leather is a testament to the moment when the hand determined the amount of pressure, the duration,…