I aquired a whole box of full hides of Kid leather at the weekend from a carboot sale for 5 quid.
Im pleased as punch about that! Anyway, I had wanted to make them into bags and decorate them with my pyrography pen (a tool thats like a soldering iron so you can create a pattern in wood or leather) Unfortunately Wikipedia says burning normal leather releases arsenic and other harmful toxins when burnt with pyrography tools unless they are vegetable tanned. Thats a shame that, is there anyway of knowing they are veg tanned or not? Or are most leathers not veg tan?
If anyone has any veg tan leather, Ill would be happy to do a swap of one of the skins, it really is beautiful soft swuade.
Im pleased as punch about that! Anyway, I had wanted to make them into bags and decorate them with my pyrography pen (a tool thats like a soldering iron so you can create a pattern in wood or leather) Unfortunately Wikipedia says burning normal leather releases arsenic and other harmful toxins when burnt with pyrography tools unless they are vegetable tanned. Thats a shame that, is there anyway of knowing they are veg tanned or not? Or are most leathers not veg tan?
If anyone has any veg tan leather, Ill would be happy to do a swap of one of the skins, it really is beautiful soft swuade.