We love leather and GoodyBeads has a large selection of leather and leather findings to choose from. Our inspiration for today’s tutorial is creating a casual leather bracelet for anyone to wear. We love its masculine, simplicity, and rawness of the licorice leather with leather cord coils. Check out this tutorial and make one today!
Components
The components you will need for this bracelet are simple:
Licorice Leather
2mm Leather Cord
Licorice Clasp
Super New Glue
Tool: Flat-Nose Pliers
Tutorial
Step One: Gather your items.
Step Two: Cut a meter or 3.5’ length of 2mm leather cord. Make a 4” loop at one end and lay it on the back side of your licorice leather, centered.
Step Three: Take your leather cord and wrap around the licorice leather and coil downwards. Coil down for a length of 2 inches.
Step Four: Slip that leather end through the loop you’ve made in step two.
Step Five: Holding your coils, take your pliers and pull on the beginning thread end on the other side. As you pull, the loop is shorten and pull the thread end from step four under your coil.
Step Six: Pull the cord until the loop is situated in the middle of your coils.
Step Seven: Cut your cord ends close enough to the coils.
Step Eight: Cut your licorice leather to your preferred wrist length, making sure to situate your coils in the center. Glue on your clasp and you are ready to wear it after the glue dries for at least an hour.
Brilliant! This technique works beautifully for silk wraps — so why not scale it up like this and use it with leather, especially when you end up with such a handsome result? Whoever thought this up should take a well deserved bow.
Brilliant! This technique works beautifully for silk wraps — so why not scale it up like this and use it with leather, especially when you end up with such a handsome result? Whoever thought this up should take a well deserved bow.
Thank you.