The Origin of My Leather Dragon Scale Technique

By Lisa Maria Cantalupo — Where Leather Meets Lineage

Some techniques are not born overnight.
They’re forged — through trust, experimentation, and the responsibility that comes with a client who expects excellence.

The leather dragon scale technique I teach today began not as a tutorial idea, but as a commissioned solution for a client who wanted something that didn’t yet exist.

How It All Started

In early...

My Dragon Scales are 3-Dimensional – they are not tooled or stamped leather! In the video below, I demonstrate the techniques that I have developed and perfected, and show you a finished work of leather art.  

But before you watch, here's a little back story about my Dragon Scales...

I had developed the technique for making my Dragon Scales because of a customer...

With every custom and semi-custom leather bracelet order received, an accurate wrist measurement is needed. There has been an occasion or two when the measurement that has been provided is not very accurate at all, resulting an email from a disappointed customer. 

The mistake usually doesn't occur in the misreading of a measurement. It's made in the what that had been measured. A customer will measure the length of their favorite and well fitting bracelet, giving to me that measurement as their wrist measurement. But here's the thing, the length of a bracelet is NOT the same as your wrist circumference. They're just not. Since I cannot give...