Devil with cigar patch in embossed leather

The devil and his cigar
A large round patch where a red devil, horns up and a sly grin, chews on his cigar. His tail curls along the circle and spills over the edge. Red and black, all in relief. 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 round patch, the devil’s tail spills over the circle
• Width: 215.4 mm (8.48 in)
• Height: 223.3 mm (8.79 in)
• Colours: red and black
• Material: embossed full-grain leather
• Attachment: sew-on (pre-punching option)
• Made: in our workshop in France