How to Make Leather Fringe

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Eric Sterns with Expert Village. We're discussing some traditional styled leather work, and right now we're covering the making of a knife sheath. So we have our sheath here, and when we made it, we attached some rawhide to the deer hide, and that's been sewn in for purposes of making kind of a decorative fringe. What we're going to do here, is some of it's already been cut, I'm going to go ahead and demonstrate cutting the fringe, and then we're going to show you how to make fringe hang from the bottom of it as well, if that's something that you'd like to do. So, for here what we've done, is basically, we're cutting the hide up to the area where the line where the sewing on the sides has stopped, that's where we're ending the fringe. And what I'm basically doing is I'm getting as many little thin pieces of fringe as I can cut out of the hide as I go, because I want my fringe, I personally like the fringe to be very thin and very delicate because that way it moves very easily, and has a little more life to it as the sheath moves it's kind of nice that way. So that's basically the process that we're doing, and what I'm essentially doing, is I'm basically taking each of these larger pieces and I'm cutting it in half, then I'm cutting it in half again, and each of those in half, and so on."