Leather Stamps - Decorative

[TeeDee]

Where do the forum Leather workers get their decorative leather stamps from?

I have found an Etsy shop but wondered if there maybe other more inexpensive sources.

 

[Kepis]

Used to get all of mine out of Le Prevo.

 

[Mesquite]

Try here

 

[Broch]

+1 for Le Prevo. Identity Leathercraft also do a load.
I had them make up a load of bespoke ones for my motifs - you pay for a sheet that can contain a number of designs that you then have to cut up yourself. I use them with a press or, if I'm just using it once, with a G clamp.

This is the badger head I use on my leatherwork (on quiver no2)

 

[William_Montgomery]

Occasionaly you can find a decent second hand selection on ebay auctions. Sometimes job lots come up.

Also, these places sell the standard border/decorative stamps.
https://tandyleather.eu/en-gb/collections/border-stamps
https://identityleathercraft.com/collections/embossing-carving

When I first started tooling leather, before I could afford any proper stamps, I'd just use whatever was around. Old manicure set, carved wooden pegs, bolt heads and other bits of hardware. Not ideal but there are always some interesting results when you have to go down those roads.

Anything specific you're after?

 

[Ch@rlie]

I've not been on the forum for a long time, I make my own stamps, I have a small desktop cnc its great for this purpose.

 

[demographic]

Wet the leather, use an Indian wooden block printers stamp clamped in a vice but use wooden soft jaws to avoid getting the knurled vice jaw pattern on the leather.

Dead cheap and loads of patterns and sizes.

 

[TeeDee]

I see there is a very nice maker of tool stamps on Etsy - based in Bulgaria I think - ships to the UK. Very decorative.