News

As mentioned in our January post we are now exited to announce our first course!

To start with we have scheduled our first introduction to leatherwork course. This course is running on the 21st -23rd August and will have a maximum of 4 students. You will learn the basics of leatherwork including tool sharpening, hide selection, hand stitching, loop making and you will complete your own belt or dog collar project. 

If there is demand for the course we are looking to put on another in September, so if you miss out on this one please email us and we will add you to the mailing list so you are kept up to date. 

As we get into the colder months more courses will be put together and scheduled for the spring and summer months of 2019. 

To book onto our introduction to leatherwork course click here

* Christmas Announcement *

The workshop will be closing on Friday 15th December and will re open on the 3rd January. Orders made after the 10th December are not guaranteed to be delivered on time for Christmas (we will email to let you know when you can expect your order to arrive). 

Thank you for your support in 2017 and I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. 

With Christmas just around the corner we would like to offer a helping hand in gift buying. We are offering you the chance to get some Christmas shopping done early and get some great presents for your loved ones - or a bargain for yourself! Using the discount code EARLYBIRD2017 we are offering a 10% discount across the store for a limited time only and, as a subscriber to our newsletter you are getting the codes first! This code will be valid until November 3rd and is usable on our website www.jhleather.co.uk as well as our Etsy Store www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JHLeather. We will have more offers from now until the big day so don’t worry if you miss out on this offer.

Black Friday Deals

We are offering our customers a week long black Friday offer!

Rather than just one day to order your gifts for Christmas we are giving you a week! From the 19^th – 28^th November you can get 5% off all orders through the store. Also if you spend over £40 we will give you a free pot of Sedgwick’s Leather Care!

To take us up on our Black Friday offers use the code BlackFriday at the checkout to get 5% off your order.

Workshop News

Been another busy few months in the workshop for us fulfilling orders, making videos and coming up with new designs and items.  I am please to say that I have just added a couple of new products to our website, the clincher dog collar and the A4 leather bound journal.  

The clincher dog collar is made in the same way as our clincher browband and comes in a range of colours and sizes as well as brass or nickel clincher fittings.

The leather bound journal was commissioned to us by an artist looking for a stylish way to carry their sketch books around. It is such a great item and so was added to the website, the journals are currently available in a conker leather colour but we will be adding some more leather colours to this range – distressed leather in chocolate and maybe some other colours to.

Christmas Orders

If you are wanting to order from us for Christmas please order before the 10^th December, orders received after this date cannot be guaranteed to be ready in time for Christmas. 

Thanks

Jo

Early Bird Discount Code

With Christmas just around the corner we would like to offer a helping hand in gift buying. We are offering you the chance to get some Christmas shopping done early and get some great presents for your loved ones - or a bargain for yourself! Using the discount code EARLYBIRD10 we are offering a 10% discount across the store for a limited time only.

Sale ends 31/10/16

Been really busy here in the workshop getting orders made and out to their new homes. Inbetween making up the orders I have also been filming and editing some videos for the YouTube channel. So far there are 14 videos to watch including several tutorials and two highlight videos. Even if you are not interested in making your own leather items these videos will give you an insight as to what goes into making each item offered by J.H.Leather. Below is a sample of one of the videos on the channel for you to see.

Also if you are interested in how I make my handmade leather items you can follow us on instagram for photos on the progress of the items that I have on order. Click here to go to the instagram page.

Thanks

Jo

This week I went on a 2 day car upholstery and trimming course held by J.A. Milton Upholstery supplies in Ellesmere.

There was 4 of us on the course and our tutor was Patrick Wood who has had more than 30 years in the industry. Day 1 was spent getting to know the sewing machines and learning basic techniques used in car trimming. We learnt basic machine stitching, how to make and attach piping to our work and how to make fluting as well as what materials were needed for each job. 

Day 2 was what I had been waiting for, a chance to start our own projects :-) I am recovering an old car seat. I had already stripped it down in preparation for the course so I could learn the maximum amount I could. I was surprised at how difficult it was to take the old one off the chair and how much metal work there was built into the foam of the seat to keep the covers in place. Any way onto making a new cover! I have chosen to use black and red vinyl for this cover with the red used for the piping and the centre piece of the seat.

First thing I had to do was photograph the cover that I had taken off and mark out where each part joined another - this is to help when rebuilding the new one. Once I had done that I could start unstitching bits! 

We made the fluting for the seat first as this is what the rest of the cover will attach to. Once that had been marked up, machined and finished we could get to work on the sides of the seat. As the original seat was made from fabric we had to alter the patterns a bit to get the vinyl to sit right. Once we were happy then these were machined on. We marked out and attached the font in the same manor.

Next I made the piping that will go around the top part of the seat, as its red it really stands out and looks cool! Once this was done I could attach this to the rest of the cover. We then got to work on the remaining pattern pieces for the seat, unfortunately this is where we ran out of time :-( so I wasn't able to finish this part of my project. 

I have learnt a lot on this course even though it was only 2 days, Patrick was such a good tutor and a fountain of knowledge. I am now off to get my own sewing machine so I can finish this seat and get started on the next ones!

Hello and welcome to our new website!

We have been working hard for the last few weeks to get our new website up and running.

Through our new blog we will be able to let you know what is new with us for example if we get new leather colours in, new products or designs along with any sales we may be running.

You can also sign up to our mailing list to get the news first, you can sign up at the bottom of the page.