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Making a Tie Dye Leather Wallet
In 2010 I figured out a way to get a tie dye effect on leather, so we decided to make a tie dye leather wallet by hand. The tie dye effect is made by floating leather dyes in water without mixing, so that when you dip the leather into the dyes a tie dye effect is achieved.
On top of the tie dyed leather, we used presses to die cut our wallet pieces for this wallet. Die cutting is a good way to make lots of pieces in a super accurate and fast way when you need to produce lots of things all at the same time. We die cut some of our stock leather products, and that allows us to hand sew and hand finish the piees while keeping the cost down to customers. Weaver's presses make that very efficient, as we do not need to buy expensive hydraulic presses or use any electricity. They also have very low maintenance, which means a lot more work time and a lot less down time waiting for things to be fixed!