The Completed Zeppelin Purse I Made As A Gift For My Sister. The Purse Itself Is Made Of Laser-cut Leather,

The completed zeppelin purse I made as a gift for my sister. The purse itself is made of laser-cut leather, stained red, sewn together, and wet-formed to shape. The strap is a chainmail weave in stainless steel.

I'm planning on making another as a late Christmas gift for a friend. I don't know if I'll make more at some point to sell. I got the idea from this other airship bag, so currently I'm not sure how I would feel about that.

Here are some progress shots of the piece being assembled.

Just a quick necklace in a weave I haven't used before. Generally I haven't much liked spiral weaves, because the default pattern only looks good when it's kept twisted open. If you just let it hang, it untwists and looks untidy and bad.

But it turns out that if you double all the rings in the pattern, physics makes it hang neatly. The chain as a whole has a nice round spiraling profile.

This weave doesn't work in a ring size that I currently have many colors in. But I like stainless steel. In theory I could start stocking more sizes of colored rings, but for now I'm still happy with what I've got.

A quick photo of a black sea dragon mask that someone requested. They say they'll be wearing it at Dragon Con as part of a costume. This mask design I have listed in default colors of green and blue, but as with all of my designs I'm more than happy to make it in different colors.

I guess I haven't posted many photos of masks on hats. When I have a booth set up at a craft fair, it's normally the way I prop up the fancier masks I make.

This is an edit and remake of a mini top hat I made last spring. The adjustments to the design made it quicker to construct, and more tidy once assembled. It's also slightly smaller, so it fails to fit on people's heads a bit better.

It's up for sale on my Etsy page, too! And I'm pretty happy with the design, so I think I'll leave it up as a product that I can always make!

Here's something where I think the clear scales work really well. I interspersed just a few anodized aluminum scales to give a minimal rainbow. The clear scales kind of fade into ghostly outlines, letting you see the way the aluminum scales are attached into the weave. When it's just the clear scales it kind of feels like there's nothing to look at, but the aluminum scales give a nice focal point to the piece.

Sometimes I feel bad that whenever I just want some color in an experimental piece I default to rainbows. But then I have to remind myself that rainbows are always my strongest seller.

Speaking of selling, this is up for sale on my Etsy store!

Wooden scale maille choker necklaces that I made in the last week or so after having made some bracelets with smaller wooden scales.

I laser-cut the scales out of marine plywood, which tends to be a very nice material, and is rather strong. (If these were made out of straight planks of hardwood, they would break immediately along the direction of the grain. But the plywood is made with 3 layers of veneer laid cross-wise, so it's much stronger.)

Baltic birch plywood is one of my go-to materials for wood. It's the lighter blonde wood with a very clear grain. I also got a small amount of Okoume to play around with. It's a medium-dark wood with a red tone and a more pronounced grain, a bit similar to mahogany. I like it. For both, I finished the wood with tung oil before cutting it. I'm liking the oil finish more than a varnish or something. It brings out the grain, gives it a bit of luster, and helps waterproof it a bit. But I think it feels more natural and pure than varnishing it, which feels more artificial to me.

I really want to make something large with these scales. Like a dragon tail or a shirt. Also, if people show interest in these, I may also see about acquiring more types of woods.