Leather backpack detailing explained

The design of leather goods is not purely a departure from tradition and reality, but rather a design that takes on the tradition and makes appropriate changes or a greater degree of design on the basis of it. Its work is primarily organised around the market to optimise the mass production and distribution of the company's products.
Leather design focuses on every detail of the product to reflect the style, quality and spirit of the company's staff.
Here are the details of each element of leather goods design:
(1) Material
Material refers to the quality, texture and variety of materials used in leather goods, and is one of the elements of leather goods design. Leather is the main material used in leather goods; it includes genuine, recycled and artificial leather, each with its own different characteristics and strengths, which directly affect the effectiveness of the process and the technical treatment of the components, as well as their durability. In this industry, various textile materials are combined with leather to produce products using the leather goods production process, also known as leather goods.


(2) Shape
Form is in fact a relatively stable geometry. It is believed that the appearance of a geometric body is primarily dependent on the shape of the front of the geometric body, but for the designer the shape of the sides, top and bottom all play a significant role, and the individual sides themselves interact with each other and need to be carefully combined in order to make each shape beautiful, generous or offbeat.
Bags and handbags have traditional rectangular, square, trapezoidal, round, semi-circular, hexagonal shapes, as well as new age beauty waist shapes, gourd shapes and various variations on traditional shapes that are not round, square or square. While mankind, with thousands of years of cultural tradition, has a preference for traditional shapes, many modern men and women in the new age prefer more 'broken' shapes.


(3) Structure
Structure refers to the organic combination of the external and internal parts of a product in various ways, in this case, bags, handbags, silver bags, etc., with different techniques to produce a variety of structures with one or more objects. It reflects the craft characteristics of a product, as well as the function and performance of a product. For each structure, both practical and decorative design approaches can be used.
The practical structure refers to the main bag external pockets or attached pockets, internal compartments or some kind of special assembly; decorative structure is only for the needs of the design itself, and does not have practicality.


(4) Accessories
Accessories in the design and production of leather products often play a role in the finishing touch, is one of the most important elements in the design of leather goods. There are practical and decorative accessories, which are mainly made of alloy, pure copper, steel, plastic, wood, leather, etc. They are produced by plating, colour spraying, sandblasting, glue grinding, laser (i.e. laser), engraving, branding and other processes.
Practical accessories refer to parts with practical functions and performance, whose shapes and patterns allow the imagination of people, including handles of various materials, switches and locks, zip plates, foot pegs, ties, pulleys, etc.
Decorative hardware, on the other hand, refers to purely decorative parts that express various styles and ideas and are only ornamental but not practical, and can also be made from various materials.
More and more designers engrave, silk-screen or laser brand logos on practical accessories, thus replacing the simple logo hardware and integrating the logo into the practical accessories to create a new atmosphere and new effect of merging them into one, in order to reflect a brand awareness.


(5) Craftsmanship
Craft refers to the various processes, production methods and production techniques in the production of leather goods, is an important link to reflect the quality and grade of a product. It mainly includes the technology of material selection and opening; the technology and data of thickness, width and slope of shovel skin; the technology and data of needle shape, needle number, stitch distance, edge distance, thread strand number, thread colour, thread quality, as well as the technology and data of open seam, dark seam and semi-open seam; the technology and data of auxiliary material selection and processing; the technology and data of assembly process, folding, wrapping, oiling, gluing and laminating; the technology and data of branding, silk-screening, decorative thread turning The techniques and data of decoration such as computer embroidery, punching, stringing, stitching and stapling.
(6) Colours
Nature has a myriad of colours, but for the leather industry, black, brown and red are the three most classic colours, and it is only since artists have been making a big deal of their masterpieces that the leather industry has taken notice. By the 1980s, more and more urbanites were drawn to the colours of nature. In 1997, colourful designs took the world by storm, and since then, colour variations have become increasingly popular, with red, orange, yellow, green, green, blue and purple all making an appearance, as well as thousands of variations of their edges and mixes. In recent years there have been many fascinating colours such as metallic, pearl, lustrous metallic mixes, bi-colours, five colours and various antique colours.


(7) Textures
Texture includes the pattern of the material itself and artificial texture. Early leather products are mostly leather grain effect (called needle pattern), there are textile material cloth pattern and printed on the fabric of various patterns; modern times, there are many real or fake animal or plant textures; modern is based on the previous, the application of more natural things in the texture and design a variety of geometric textures, space-time patterns and other creative textures.


(8) Lines
Lines are the geometric elements that make up the various surfaces and bodies, and each line gives a different feeling, "stirring up" a myriad of "rights and wrongs". Straight lines give people a sense of integrity, firmness, openness, calmness and unity; vertical lines give people a sense of seriousness, uprightness and support; curved lines give people a sense of softness, ease and freedom; wavy lines give people a sense of fluidity and freedom, up and down; snail curves give people a sense of gradual reduction or stretching; curved lines give people a sense of roundness, fullness or thinness; diagonal lines give people a sense of tilting and oppression; and folding lines give people a sense of rigidity, roundabout and abruptness. feeling.


(9) Proportion
In the leather goods industry, there is a relatively stable range of sizes for each type of product in terms of shape, fittings and component specifications, showing different proportional relationships. Of course, deliberate disruption of proportions to highlight exaggerated effects at a particular stage of fashion cannot be ruled out.
The texture, colour and texture of the material, as well as the accessories and craftsmanship of the product, are some of the elements that leave the most room for leather goods design development. How a designer can effectively grasp each element to construct a creative and valuable style requires that he or she first grasp the different fashions of different generations and markets and find out the answer. The designer must not only be fully aware of the history of leather design as a source of inspiration, but must also be based on the market, paying attention to the development trends of all walks of life, the public's lifestyle and changes in consumer attitudes. Only in this way can designers continue to innovate and design the products that the market needs.