Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Search results

  1. S

    Leather under a microscope

    Conceria Walpier Mud - cow Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 90x Edge 180x Edge 270x They market this as full grain, but it looks very slightly corrected. You can still see the pores, but the spaces between the pores is anything but smooth like you'd expect. It's possible it's been damaged...
  2. S

    Leather under a microscope

    Conceria Walpier Dollaro - cow Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 90x Edge 180x Edge 270x So this one has a weird texture to it. Looking at the photos, the pores are like... stretched out over themselves. I think what they did is run some sort of high friction roller over the top to sort of...
  3. S

    Leather under a microscope

    Conceria Walpier Buttero - cow Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 45x Edge 90x Edge 180x Not Badalassi, finally. Interesting surface finish with the pores all squashed down and glazed over with something. Pretty bacony, but maybe a little less than the Badalassi samples.
  4. S

    Leather under a microscope

    Badalassi Waxy Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 90x Edge 180x Edge 270x This one is called waxy, so I'm going to assume the finishing process uses a lot of wax. The upper layers are not as textured as the previous samples, and I'm going to assume that has to do with the wax. Also, a lot more of...
  5. S

    Leather under a microscope

    Badalassi Pueblo - cow Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 90x Edge 180x Edge 270x The pores on this say something... They're more round, and arranged in lines. The pores have a point to them. Maybe the previous ones are rolled for texture purposes, and this one isn't? Definitely different than the...
  7. S

    Leather under a microscope

    Badalassi Nemesis - pretty sure it's cow Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 45x Edge 90x Edge 180x Badalassi bacon again. Seller's site doesn't name a species, but the pores say cow. The finish appears (on this small sample at least) not to hide any marks. Bug bites and scars and such. Maybe it's...
  8. S

    Leather under a microscope

    Badalassi Minerva Smooth Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 45X Edge 90x Edge 180x More Badalassi bacon. Cow again, and same random pore arrangement. I think this got rolled or something somehow to smooth it out compared to the "box" variety. The pores look kinda crushed. It looks kinda like the...
  9. S

    Leather under a microscope

    Badalassi Minerva Box (I got another sample of this, because it was a dollar and the previous sample was a bit confounding) - cow Macro: 90x 180x 270x Edge 45x Edge 90x Edge 180X OK. Analysis time! Up first is essentially a repeat, but in a lighter color than before. Canuck Panda sent...
  10. S

    Leather under a microscope

    OK. Samples arrived Thursday, but I was out of town Friday morning through last night. I did a quick run through the samples under the scope. I realized about halfway through that one of my adjustments was off from inspecting a pocket watch balance sometime between now and the last set of...
  11. S

    Pattern making learning process

    Had touch a chaos over the last few weeks... Wasn't the worst thing though, because all the tutorials for making dress forms omit everything after being cut out of the shell, finish it too lightly built to be all that effective, or screw it up. So I wanted some time to noodle on an effective...
  13. S

    Leather under a microscope

    I found a website that sells samples of some pretty nice leathers for cheap with free shipping. Got a bunch of horse and interesting cow options. Also found a place with a similar deal on kangaroo hide! Supposedly, that's about the toughest stuff going. Given that marsupials have almost nothing...
  14. S

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Receipts for pleats vs. darts. They're darts. Dictionary: pleat Dictionary: dart (see definition #5) Quora for the pop culture usage And finally, an academic product to tie a bow on it. On the jacket I posted an image from on the previous page, the darts form a three dimensional curvature to...
  15. S

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Darts are used all the time, and I have a folder full of photos of jackets with them. My favorite backs are Californians (the above photo happens to be on my desktop right now), which are extremely plain save for darting. I think they're interesting in a way that adds some visual interest while...
  16. S

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    I've wondered about exactly that quite a bit recently. How much of the three dimensional shape is in the pattern, how much is the leather conforming to the wearer's arms and movement. Looking at vintage patterns, they do have some curve to them rather than being two straight rectangles like some...
  17. S

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    After what I've seen from the samples in the microscopy thread, I'm pretty thoroughly sold on horsehide. It's almost certainly a requirement at this point. I've bookmarked and looked at every manufacturer I've seen mentioned here. Aero is the only one that has anything that comes close to...
  19. S

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Keep me posted on how it goes with this alternate company. The thing is, I actually NEED a jacket before next fall. I would prefer to have it now, but I'm willing to wait and make due for something that is exactly what I want. Someone on here told me in PM that the group has moved on from...
  20. S

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Maybe if they ever get their website to work...
  21. S

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Lots of photos and white space between photos.
  22. S

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    It appears I'll not be cracking the Fivestar code after all. I went round and round with Shawn and Fargham trying to get leather samples. All the means, methods, and addresses, including a cold video chat at one point. Could not get the communication to work well enough for it to happen. I told...
  23. S

    Pattern making learning process

    Got the form started. Wife taped me up, then cut me out. Gotta close it back up, plug the holes, and get it stuffed and on a stand. Still a ways to go before I can get back onto the actual pattern, but it's progress.

Latest posts

Members online

Total: 4,527 (members: 32, guests: 4,495)

Forum statistics

Threads
110,998
Messages
3,112,839
Members
55,352
Latest member
Dioacum
Top