When everything comes together, this project turns into a structured rectangular frame bag with light perimeter stitching, a leather top handle, a buckle closure strap, and metal hardware such as rivets or snaps. It carries by the handle or wears as a crossbody, and the tutorial walks viewers through building it from the maker's leathercraft pattern. In the promotional graphic the piece is labeled Handbag N°5, shown in a smooth tan or brown.
The stand-out construction work is in the hinges, which start as 20 mm by 2 mm aluminium flat bar. Two pieces get marked to length with a template strip and pencil, cut with a hand hacksaw, then rounded on a tabletop bandsaw. A metal hand file and sandpaper deburr the edges before a cordless drill opens the mounting holes and a countersink bit chamfers them. That is a proper metalworking workflow inside a leather project.
The handle gets equally careful treatment. It uses olive-green leather with a narrower strip of orange scrap leather cemented underneath as padding, the strip ends skived into a tapered transition first. A rectangular brass ring sits inside the folded end of the strap. Stitch lines are marked with a square, scratch awl, and wing dividers, then chisels and a mallet punch the sewing holes. The maker saddle stitches with waxed thread, looping over the sides for reinforcement, holding the work in a wooden stitching pony. A bone folder shapes the edges, which are beveled and burnished with Tokonole or a similar slicking compound.
One honest gap: the maker says speech and camera angles still need work, and welcomes feedback for future tutorials. The pattern has been sold since the start of the year, with more patterns and videos promised.
Project by Joshua Arens. Watch it on their YouTube channel: