Large Round Skull and Tree of Life Leather Patch, Openwork

A skull in the tree of life
A large round patch, 24 cm across: a black skull in the centre, surrounded by a tree of life whose leaves and roots are cut out in openwork, between two antique brown hills, inside a black circle. To sew on the back of a vest or jacket.

Colour
Antique brown: black skull, leaves, roots and circle, antique brown hills.

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 have to pierce the vest leather to pass the needle. With the pre-punching option, we punch the edge of the patch in advance, with a hole every 2 mm. The patch then becomes your template: glue it to the vest with leather glue so it no longer moves, pierce the vest leather through its holes, and both are perfectly aligned. All that is left is to sew with a saddle stitch, with two needles and waxed thread: it is the strongest stitch for leather, and you will easily find a tutorial by searching “leather saddle stitch” 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. On the photo the relief barely shows: in real life the design stands out clearly, and the patch looks even better.

Technical specifications:

• Format: large round patch, openwork
• Dimensions: Ø 240 mm (9.4 in)
• Colour: antique brown
• Material: full-grain leather
• Fastening: sew-on (pre-punching option)
• Made in our workshop in France