Embossed Leather Wings Patch, Choice of Fringes

Wings and fringes, your way

An embossed leather wings patch that you customise yourself. You choose the colour of the wings, the centre design out of 42, the colour of the washer and the colour of the fringes. The photo changes with each choice, so you see exactly the patch you will receive. Sew it in the middle of the back of a women’s or kids’ vest, or anywhere you like.

Your choices

• Wing colour: white, red, brown or black
• Centre design: 42 pewter designs, or no design
• Washer colour: black, or matching the wings (red or white)
• Fringes: black, red or white depending on the wings, or no fringes

42 designs for every road style

• The road: Route 66, V-Twin Engine, Oval V-Twin Engine, Live Free Ride Hardcore, Eight Ball
• Skulls: Skull, Skull 13, Skull with Chain, Tribal Skull, Pirate Skull, Cowboy Skull, Skull and Roses, Skull Cross
• Crosses and knots: Ace of Spades Cross, Celtic Cross, Maltese Cross with Chain, Celtic Knot
• Animals: Eagle, Eagle with Chain, Wolf, Wolf Head, Bulldog, Horse, Bison Head, Buffalo Skull
• Western spirit: Indian Chief, Indian Head Nickel, Buffalo Nickel, Sheriff Star, Mandala, La Roulotte Sun Concho, Fleur-de-lis
• Stone conchos: Turquoise Concho, Turquoise Rope Concho, Oval Turquoise Concho, Onyx Concho, Onyx Sun Concho, Oval Onyx Concho
• For lady bikers: Lady Biker, Rose, Blooming Rose, Heart and Rose

With or without fringes

The patch on its own costs €25. With a design riveted on its washer, without fringes, it costs €35. With fringes, it costs €40: two pewter feathers and lambskin leather strips about 22 cm long that move in the wind as you ride. A Traveller Shop classic.

Shipped unassembled: how to fit it

The wings and the design are shipped separately. The rivet and its cap are included.

1. Sew the patch onto your vest.
2. Centre the washer on the round part of the patch and mark its hole: the washer is your template.
3. Punch the hole with a 3 to 4 mm hammer-driven hole punch.
4. Push the rivet of the design through the washer, then the fringes, then the patch and the vest.
5. Turn the vest over and clip the cap onto the rivet.
6. Tap very gently with a hammer once. Straighten the design, the fringes and the washer.
7. Hit the cap again 2 or 3 times, not too hard. Done!

To see how it is done, watch the video on our DIY Rivet Montage page. It shows another rivet from our workshop, but it is fitted the same way.

Pre-punched option (+€5)

Hand-sewing your own patch is the personal touch that makes all the difference on a vest. On a leather vest, you also need to pierce the vest leather to pass the needle. With the pre-punched option, we punch the edge of the patch in advance, with a hole every 2 mm. The patch then becomes your template: glue it onto the vest with leather glue so it stays in place, pierce the vest leather through its holes, and both line up perfectly. All that is left is to sew with a saddle stitch, using 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 the better choice.

Made in our workshop

In our family workshop, since 1989, the wings are cut from full-grain leather made especially for Traveller Shop by a French tannery, then embossed, and the pewter pieces are cast in our own moulds. The relief barely shows in the photo: in real life the design stands out by about 3 mm, and the patch looks even better.

Technical details:

• Shape: wings
• Width: 164 mm
• Height: 65 mm
• Centre round: 37.7 mm
• Wing colours: white, red, brown, black
• Designs: 42 to choose from, in pewter
• Washer: black, red or white
• Fringes: lambskin leather, about 22 cm, with two pewter feathers of about 7 cm
• Delivery: wings and design unassembled, rivet and cap included
• Fitting: patch to sew (pre-punching optional), design to rivet with a hammer
• Tool needed: 3 to 4 mm hammer-driven hole punch
• Made in our workshop in France