Leather handbags
Handbags and leather bags have been around for many centuries. Nowadays, there are leather bags and handbags in an infinite number of variations. For bags and handbags, the leather of almost all animal species is used and every known leather processing method is used.
Contents
- 1 Brands of bag manufacturers
- 2 Design of leather handbags
- 3 Leather of various animal species
- 3.1 Cane toad leather
- 3.2 Alligator
- 3.3 Crocodile leather
- 3.4 Kaiman-Eidechse
- 3.5 Iguana
- 3.6 Waran
- 3.7 Cobra leather
- 3.8 Schildkröte und Pirarucu
- 3.9 Python
- 3.10 Fischnatter und Büffelleder
- 3.11 Wasserschlange
- 3.12 Karpfenleder
- 3.13 Robbenleder
- 3.14 Muräne und Rochen
- 3.15 Kuhmagen
- 3.16 Straußenleder
- 3.17 Gürteltier
- 3.18 Kamel
- 4 Handtaschen Innenfutter
- 5 Videos about the Production of leather bags
- 6 Additional information
- 7 Detailed instructions for cleaning, repair and maintenance of leather handbags
Brands of bag manufacturers
Handbags are offered by the finest brands and therefore the range of prices is high. Often the most expensive brands are copied and offered as fakes on black markets.
Originals and ......
fakes......
Design of leather handbags
There are infinite possibilities for designing leather handbags. The design is defined by the processed types of leather, by the form and by motifs on leather.
Forms of leather handbags
The variation of form of handbags has no limits.
Large variety of shapes of www.mygretchen.com.
Motifs on leather
Motifs on leather can be created by embossing. But leather can also be painted, perforated, embroidered or decoreted with with buttons or other decorations.
Handbags provided with a beautiful embossing (left from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany)
Very old handbags from Japan provided with an embossing, painted and covered with decorations (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany)
Very old handbags provided with an embossing and partly also painted (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany)
Very old handbags, probably with moisture and heat deformed. Another theory: The leather is coated with a kind of glue and shaped with a spedcial sliding method (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany).
Very old handbags. The grain of a special type of coral shark leather is exceptional (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany)
Patent leather handbag.
Gold leather handbag. - Handbag of metallic leather.
Carved handbag from Mexico. - Hedgehog handbag with fine cutting work from Moskow.
Beautiful leather handbags handmade by Selestudio
Leather of various animal species
For bags and handbags, the leather of a different animal species is used.
Cane toad leather
Cane toad leather with inbuilt head with glass eyes approximately from 1930 (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany).
Alligator
Alligator leather approximately from 1940 (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany). - Alligator handbag with inbuilt head from the 50s.
Crocodile leather
An unusual crocodile handbag. - The whole animal has been processed (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany).
Handbag with crocodile head on the front. Of India, late 50s to early 60s.
Bumbag from the crocodile-paw (Goldpfeil 1954). - Handbag handles from the crocodile feet. - Crocodile head on crocodile handbag. Seen in the DLM - German Leather Museum in Offenbach.
Krokotasche with polished armor as normally only done with stingray leather (from www.pfeiffer-leder-mode.de).
Kaiman-Eidechse
Lizard leather - Lizard leather approximately from 1930 (all from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany).
Iguana
Iguana leather handbag with complete head.
Waran
Waran leather from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen in Germany. - Right from the collection of the DLM - German Leather Museum in Offenbach).
Cobra leather
Cobra leather handbags (bag 2 and 3 from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany).
Cobra leather has a distinctive mark.
Schildkröte und Pirarucu
Handtasche aus Schildkrötenleder seen in the DLM - German Leather Museum in Offenbach und Handtasche aus der Haut des Amazonas-Fischs Pirarucu von www.mygretchen.com
Python
Pythonleder-Handtaschen (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany)
Fischnatter und Büffelleder
Fischnatter-Handtasche von ca. 1920 und Wasserbüffelleder-Handtasche (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany).
Wasserschlange
Wasserschlange-Handtasche von ca. 1920 (left and right from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany, Mitte von www.mygretchen.com).
Karpfenleder
Karpfenleder als Lederhandtasche gefertigt von www.ledermanufaktur.com
Robbenleder
Left Walrossleder - Right Seehundleder from the collection of the DLM - German Leather Museum in Offenbach.
Muräne und Rochen
Muränenleder und Rochenleder (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany)
Kuhmagen
Left: Lederhandtaschen mit Fischleder, Hauptflächen Kuhmagen (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany)
Right: From the collection of the DLM - German Leather Museum in Offenbach
Straußenleder
Straußenlederhandtasche und Schuhe von Artestruz Mallorca
Wunderschöne Handwerkskunst: Straußenleder-Handtaschen von www.lederkunst.com
Gürteltier
Handtasche aus einem Gürteltier-Leder
Kamel
Taschen aus Kamelleder
Handtaschen Innenfutter
Auch das Innenfutter von Handtaschen kann aus Leder sein. Dabei wird Ziegenvelour, Lammnappa oder Schweinsleder verwendet.
Eine der verwendeten Leather types wird Skiver genannt. Als Täschnerleder wird feines Leder, das zum Ausfüttern von Taschen verwendet wird, bezeichnet.
Links: Innenfutter aus Ziegenvelour - Rechts: Innenfutter einer Schlangenledertasche, oben Lammnappa und unten Porc-Velour (Schweinsleder)
Videos about the Production of leather bags
A beautiful video about the artisanal production of a handbag.
The Leather workshop of www.gusti-leder.de.
Additional information
- Leather luggage
- Doctor's bag
- Saddlebag
- Leather satchels
- Leather satchels
- Leather bags
- [Leather accessories]]
- Leather goods
- Exotic leather
- Taxidermy - Hunting trophies - Mounted animals
Detailed instructions for cleaning, repair and maintenance of leather handbags
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