New leather project for April 2020.
Bag created at workshop at Textile and Fashion Industry Training Centre, Singapore under the tutelage of Naoki Tsunoo(http://tsunoo.info/main.html).
Designer: Naoki Tsunoo
Vertical zip tote bag. Black printed leather outer with smooth brown leather interior. Front features Tsunoo’s ‘Ivy Works’ decorative style- curved leather pieces cutouts with turned edges. Folded shoulder handles attached to antique finish brass hardware. Exterior piping on base.
Combination of machine and hand-stitching.
Student’s additions- Zip closure. Zig-zag hand-stitched detail to highlight machine-stitching errors. W stitching detail on one handle chapes.