Saturday workshop – designing and making a clasp purse –
Saturday 30th July
Hilary Cairns led a very productive, and very popular
workshop, on how to design a purse or bag to fit variously sized purse or
handbag clasps.
Once Hilary had explained the principles involved members
began their design work followed by embellishment before getting to the central
task of fitting their embellished fabric into the clasp purse/handbag
fitting.
This workshop was a very “full-on” experience of measuring,
designing, embellishing and then the critical skill of fitting the finished
piece to the clasp mechanism. Not an ounce of time was wasted other than
concentrating on the task in hand! I think that all members learnt a most
valuable lesson in the time involved in construction, without design etc, of
making a handbag or purse – so, all members will now appreciate exactly what is
involved in any purse or handbag that they purchase!
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