Large Chinese Dragon Embossed Leather Patch

A dragon for the back of your vest
A large 20.7 × 27.4 cm shield with curved sides: a scaly Chinese dragon winds from top to bottom, with a flaming mane, claws forward and a fireball under its paw. At the bottom, two small coiled dragons in medallions. The design is embossed in the leather, the dragon in black, with a black edge all around. Sew it on the back of a vest or jacket.

Three colours
Aged brown, red or white: the background of the shield takes the chosen colour, the dragon stays black.

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 details:

• Format: large shield with curved sides
• Size: 207 × 274 mm (8.1 × 10.8 in)
• Colours: aged brown, red, white
• Material: full-grain leather
• Fastening: sew-on (pre-punching optional)
• Made in our workshop in France