Leather Love — custom leather design
How to Make a Leather Eye Patch (With Ladder Stitch Strap & Miter Joint Construction)
Intro
A well-made leather eye patch should look intentional, comfortable, and refined — not like a costume piece. It’s a small project that combines precision cutting, edge finishing, strap construction, and decorative structural stitching.
In this tutorial, I walk through how to build a professional-quality leather eye patch using clean edgework, a miter joint strap, and a traditional flat ladder stitch braid. These are real techniques I use in custom leather commissions — scaled down into a project that’s both practical and skill-building.
Whether you're building...
The Pieces and the People ~ My Leather Art & Leather Work, Bespoke Clothing & Accessories
I Am Lisa Maria Cantalupo and I Make Beautiful Things With Leather ~ Art You Wear!
After two phones had crashed, I found myself scouring through all my Facebook photographs downloading as I went, trying to recover some lost images. As I was scrolling through the years and years and years of creating with leather, I was also reliving the memories that I had captured in these photos. With each image that I had thumbed through, I became more grateful to have had the...