Everything is handcrafted using traditional methods, bespoke to your requirements and truly one of a kind.
Stealth Hippy promises to provide clear and transparent costings to create your bespoke commision.
Friendly, supportive and expert assistance throughout the entire process is the
Stealth Hippy way.
Every commission is crafted with passion, care and attention to detail, you deserve nothing but the best.
Hand tooled leather is a process of marking, carving and embossing designs onto leather.
Throughout history many cultures have tooled designs onto leather, Vikings, Celts, Ancient Egyptians, and even the Cowboys in the wild west, have all added their own style and art to leather goods.
If it can be drawn, then a version of it can be carved into leather. So if there is a particular design you want, then feel free to run it by me
Most of my work is done with premium quality vegetable tanned “tooling leather”. The beauty of it is that is can be soaked, then stretched and moulded to form a variety of shapes. You can use it to make moulded bags and pouches, or even to mould extravagant face masks.
I will continue to resist the urge to buy a stitching machine as the saddle stitch which I use predominantly is far superior to any machine stitch.
Machine stitching creates a lock stitch, where each stitch comprises of two threads, that are locked around each other, then pulled tight.
While this is a clever way of doing things, should one of the threads ever fail, then the whole row of stitching is compromised
Saddle stitch is impossible to replicate by a machine. It requires two needles on the end of a single piece of thread. Both needles are passed through every hole in opposite directions.
The result is that each hole has two threads passing through it. Should one of the threads fail, the other, and each of the holes either side of it will still be in place. So the rest of the row of stitches will still hold strong.Thus a saddle stitched job will not fail in the same way a machine stitch can
