How to Use the Veiner Tool in Leather Working

Video Transcript

"So a tool with this kind of shape is called a veiner; here is another one here. They get that name because a lot of artist will use them to get vein like patterns or vein like textures to the veins of leaves or to stem to give a nice botanical texture to them. Again this has a certain look to it. If you go straight down. I probably need to case this leather a little bit better. See this is an example of what happens if your leather isn't well cased. Get a little bit more moisture in here and let it soak in. Let's try again. Another single action hit here. Yeah, there we go. So, this isn't really a design that you use on its own. It's something you use more for texturing. We can use these again straight up and down and maybe do them in series next to one another. You can imagine doing maybe a border or maybe a pattern that way, by doing several repeated stamping like that. But again, remember if you angle the tool, you can texture large areas in interesting ways. Now I have tool sort of angled. It is no longer straight up and down. I'm going to do overlapping strokes here. You can see, I'm starting to get a neat texture here. If I had a leave shaped design here. I can just maybe scribe it out really quickly. Imagine I was doing may be the shape of some sort of leave that was like this. The reason this gets the name as the veiner, is a lot of artist will place that right here where the vein goes and give it sort of a look like that. Real simple little tap but when it is incorporated in a larger design like a leave you can see how it might get that name as being the veiner stamp."