How to Use the Seeder Tool in Leather Working

Video Transcript

"This is a tool called the cider. Its - actually I have another one here. Let?s see if I can find it. Here's another one. Ciders are tools that get there name because there used for making the little seed pods of flower designs. But you can also used them to make, I don't know, eyes or anything that looks like little balls or little points. This is a smaller one, here's a larger one. Again, they're single action tools. So the smaller one, if you do it straight up and down. It basically looks like a dot. You can see it has sort of a texture around the dot. Almost like a little fringed polka dot. Here's the larger cider. It has a look like this. When you apply it it looks like a iris of an eye, also like a seed pod. Again, remember it isn't so much the design of these little seed stamps that we're interested in as much as it is how you can make larger patterns with them. So for example, again if you're working on a larger floral design, you might want to use the cider to define may be kind of a larger area within the center of the flower. For example, all the different little seed pods or pollen grains or whatever you want to call them. And get a whole bunch of them together. Again, tools like this are largely used for texturizing. You can now, I've produced this little design here. I just repeated taps of that cider. And of course that would be incorporated in a much larger design. You can do the same thing with the larger cider. But again, remember these tools can be angled. So if you take a cider and you angle it, you get a little - well it just looks like a little may be triangular or sort of asymmetrical little dent. And again you can do several next to each other and develop over time, over larger areas, some interesting textural thing. Basically, a lot of these single action tools, like the venire, the camouflage stamp, and the cider, can be used straight up and down to make little details that are basically used for texturizing your design. But they can also be used at angles, to make particle impressions which can be used for other elements of your design."