Skull and roses patch in embossed leather

The skull and its roses
A large back patch: a skull carved with arabesques and roses, surrounded by a bouquet of roses and leaves that spills out all around. The whole design is embossed, every petal and every leaf in relief. Three colours to choose from: white, red or brown. To sew on the back of a vest or a jacket.

Pre-punching option (+€5)
Sewing your patch on yourself, by hand, is the personal touch that makes all the difference on a vest. On a leather vest, you also need to punch the vest leather to pass the needle. With the pre-punching option, we punch holes around the patch in advance, one every 2 mm (0.08 in). The patch then becomes your template: glue it onto the vest with leather glue so it stays in place, punch the vest leather through its holes, and both line up perfectly. All that’s left is to sew with a saddle stitch, using two needles and waxed thread: it’s the strongest stitch for leather, and you’ll easily find a tutorial by searching “saddle stitch leather” on YouTube. For machine sewing, the unpunched patch is better.

Made in our workshop
In our family workshop, since 1989, our patches are cut from full-grain leather made especially for Traveller Shop by a French tanner, then embossed. The relief doesn’t really show in the photo: in real life, the design clearly stands out, and the patch looks even better.

Technical details:

• Shape: large patch cut in the shape of a skull surrounded by roses
• Width: 248.8 mm (9.80 in)
• Height: 248.4 mm (9.78 in)
• Colours: white, red or brown
• Material: embossed full-grain leather
• Attachment: sew-on (pre-punching option)
• Made: in our workshop in France