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Card holder lesson 1
The following are the step-by-step instructions for completing your card holder! Enjoy!
If you haven’t already, feel free to purchase our sewing kit by contacting us!
Theading the needle
First, thread the needle.
Next, at about 2-3cm from the end of the thread, place the needle point at the center of the flat thread.
A Belgian customer requested for a hand made vegetable tanned leather sleeve for his iPad with an attached keyboard, as well as his Apple pencil.
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We can’t be more proud after having handed this mens clutch bag to our customer. It was picked up by his friend and then flown all the way to Qatar.
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Card holder lesson 2
Lesson one was about how to stitch your leather card holder from our Hocks-Alcis beginner diy sewing kit. The kit included pre-punched leather panels, needles and thread.
Lesson two is about burnishing the card holder and deals primarily with smoothing the edges. Tools required are:
You can purchase this add-on set of tools with our basic kit.
Finishing your card holder
Sand the edges of your leather card holder all round to remove as much of the skin/flesh fibre sticking out from the edge.
Swipe left and right
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Timeless luxury display stands made of marble, 316L steel and leather.
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Featuring our new brown custom hand stitched leather bag net to our black double gusset bag.
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Customized to our customer’s design, this camera strap is dyed Royale Blue with patina effect.
Our customer’s AQUILA® label on the underside of the strap with the area around it deliberate darkened for effect.
Just completed hand sewing the handle.
A sweetest lady ordered a leather laptop sleeve to be tailored to her boyfriend’s macbook. We had to build a wood mold to craft the sleeve’s main feature, which is an opening for the trackpad.
Thereafter, boyfriend’s initials MG are embossed outside while the lady’s initials CC are embossed on the inside.
A brand new project. Black crocodile emboss full grain buffalo leather wallet with green hand dyed veg tanned interior.
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A customer came in with his Ferragamo double Gancio bracelet. The original is in khaki green and he ordered one in dark brown full grain buffalo leather with embossed crocodile patterns.
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Still work in progress.
This AQUILA® vintage suitcase is custom made to be tiny as it is ordered by a lady for her own use, but we couldn’t resist using it as a men’s jewellery box for these few photos!
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Custom made leather drumstick zipper case with personalization.
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We use both.
Made in France waxed linen thread, Fil Au Chinois Lin Câblé in 532 size.
We had to fulfill three specific requirements to make this feng shui wallet for our customer:
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Short of punching the holes and fixing the straps to my customer’s watch. Waiting for him to come over to take more photos.
A key feature we had to keep in mind is the thickness. This watch strap replacement is for a lady’s watch that has a tiny face.
Blue money clip project for a customer. Pieces of blue dyed through veg tanned leather cut out. Ready to be assembled.
Hand made two watch straps. One with a square end the other with a pointed tip. One has all round hand stitching, the other without.
The latest leather tote bag customized to our customer’s hand drawing. The two pouches in front, one tall and one short, breaks the symmetry. The three studs that fasten the pouches and the main body adds depth to the design giving us the impression of three bags in one.
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Didn’t have time to take many photos. Just completed hand dyeing the cut vegetable tanned leather with brown dye.
These wallets are built from scratch, do feel free to request for colours and discuss possible card slots and configurations with us.
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The following are hand crafted leather belts for our customers who believe in the skilled craftsman more than they believe in sewing machines. Every belt is hand cut, hand bevelled, hand stitched and hand polished. Customers can indicate the widths (eg. 1.5″) and colours they would like to have customised.
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Customer of Aquila’s ordered a matching set of blue crocodile gym bag and blue croc belt replacement belt for his Ferragamo buckle. Needless to say, Hocks-Alcis hand made Aquila’s bag from scratch.
Made of full grain leather cow/buffalo hide with crocodile leather belly design, supplied by Broadway Leather Co..
Our customer’s custom bag is taking shape. The handles have just been stitched onto both the front and back panels of his office bag.
The individual parts of our customer’s custom order office bag are assembled in this photo. There are still many small details that need to be prepared.
Thereafter, it’s the assembly, putting the various parts together.
Hocks-Alcis prepares for a blue crocodile bag project. Here we practise rounding the corner of the blue crocodile patterned hide. The tan colour doesn’t quite fit the blue though. Will probably go with a darker brown.
Another round of testing on a hand dyed red veg tanned leather.
This beautiful hand clutch bag is commissioned by a Singaporean gentleman. He brought us his sample and we followed its major concepts while ignoring other aspects of it, given that the sample is made of an entirely different kind of material. The main external feature are the zip and the strap for our customer’s hand to go through.
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We were commissioned by Aquila to make a custom leather coin pouch for a Singaporean gentleman, Bernard. Complete with both Aquila’s logo and debossed with Bernard’s name.
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Leather passport cover customised to a customer’s request. Holder is also personalised with our customer’s full name stamped on it.
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Three-quarters length long wallet for mens customised to a customer’s request. Details were specific to the point where the $50.00 Singapore dollar note can barely fit in PHEW! But still, it is better that the wallet be a bit taller, referencing the left side of the wallet, probably another card slot taller.
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Proud of this ID staff pass holder that we made for a customer. It has 3 windows for three different identity cards and is in landscape orientation at our customer’s request.
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