70 After The Tide, Mom Is Leather Goods.

"The object that carries the mark of time" is the endearment of handmade leather lovers.

Indeed, compared with other crafts and collections, leather goods are more practical and long lasting, and are loved by many lovers.

Young mother Xiaoqing is one of them. In the past 5 years, she first bought, then learned to do, hoarding thousands of feet of leather, but was unable to overcome because of making difficult problems. Now she has become "the leather apprentice on the road".

Those nights with low heads are enjoyable and enjoyable for her.

The ancients said, "thirty do not learn art", for Xiaoqing, she hopes that handcraft can become a "treasure" of the family.

Xiao Qing works in a bank. Since 2010, he has been involved in handmade leather circles, though amateur, but the level is recognized by the circle.

A few years ago, she could only make simple wallets, key bags and cell phone sets. Now she can make dozens of leather bags and try to make shoes for her baby.

"In recent years, spare time has been spent looking after children and making leather goods."

Xiaoqing smiled and said that her son was healthy and adorable, and the craft of leather making has been improving, making her feel that time is full and valuable.

Xiaoqing took a reporter to her studio: one of the two rooms in her family.

This ten square meter room is almost a leather workshop. There are made, unfinished leather handbags, stacked layers of leather, and a large table with a width of 1 meters and 3 meters long. The various tools, pigments, and grease are stacked up and down, and there are hundreds of them.

"I'm not equipment control, it's all necessary to make a living."

She said that making leather goods is a "big hole", and has been spending money since it jumped in. In recent years, all kinds of expenses add up to nearly 50 thousand yuan.

"Like it!"

From childhood, handmade people learn leather goods once.

So many crafts, how did she fall in love with leather goods? Xiaoqing said that she liked to do all kinds of handcrafts from childhood, and was influenced by her family.

"Mom used to teach herself to make clothes when she was little, and most of her clothes were made by her."

Xiaoqing said that she did not have a fixed hobby at first. When she saw something beautiful and interesting, she thought about it herself.

Over the years, she has studied beads, cross stitch, quilt and cloth, and also learned paper cutting. She also learned to make clothes with her mother, but none of them made her feel very fond of it.

Until 2010, Xiaoqing met handmade leather goods.

"It seems that we have opened a door and loved it at once."

Xiaoqing said, the original color of vegetable tanning leather, exquisite personality leather items, "cattle" (with the use of time, cowskin color gradual change) fun, she can not help but become an iron fan.

"Handmade leather goods are much more expensive and expensive than ordinary leather goods, but their quality is not worth saying. They are much more cost-effective than luxuries."

After collecting many hand made leather goods, Xiao Qing thought, "why can't others try to do it?" many people at that time were taught by themselves or taught by themselves. Xiao Qing thought he could try it, so he bought a roll of Japanese cowhide and began his own road.

But not long after coming, Xiaoqing found that he wanted to be simple.

"Leather processing is much more demanding and difficult."

She said, from cutting, cutting, to nail chopping, edge cutting, sewing needles, upper chains, dyeing, "every link has several difficulties. If one does not handle well, it will fail."

She said, for example, the wallet, looked at is several pieces of leather seams together OK, but in fact, each layer of leather thickness is exquisite, "the inner leather should be thin, and the edge processing should be thin, otherwise it can not be folded at all, it can not be used."

For a while, Xiao Qing began to learn "advanced", but encountered problems that could not be dealt with.

"Zipper is very troublesome to leather products, and mastering bad skills is a big problem."

Xiaoqing said, because no teacher guidance, she spent a lot of time, fumbled several times failed, especially hit, "for a while did not do it."

Fortunately, the last difficulty was overcome.

"Leather making is easy to enter the door and difficult to advance. If you had not mastered other hand skills before, you might not be able to keep it up."

She said she used to learn paper cutting, sewing, cloth art, and so on, which was eventually used in leather making.

As a leather product, Xiao Qing's works not only used her relatives and friends, but also became a "good thing" for lovers to pursue in the forums and QQ groups of the leather products, so that when she finished her work, she just took a picture, and was shown by micro-blog WeChat, and was soon taken away.

And fans from all over the country made her customized so that reporters could only find four or five pieces of finished products and semi-finished products.

"Basically, we will go away."

She said.

The short leather wallet is 300-600 yuan, takes 4-6 nights; the long leather wallet and the handbag price are similar, starts 1000 above, can make 2-3 in one month.

"It's all about communication. We don't expect this to make money."

Xiaoqing said that since entering the leather goods, she invested more money than her income, mostly in leather and tools.

In Xiaoqing's studio, the reporter saw all kinds of leather that was enough to open a fur shop: vegetable tanning leather, chrome tanned leather, deer skin, sheepskin, and special crafts "Crazy Horse Leather".

"Good leather is going to be snapped up, and when you encounter a good leather, you can't hold it right away, afraid that you will not get it later."

Xiaoqing smiled and said that her "black sheep" also had one advantage, that was, she soon became familiar with the characteristics of all kinds of cortex and had more kinds of leather articles.

She told reporters that she had been hoarding nearly a thousand feet over the years.