Round Skull Embossed Leather Patch, Fringe of Your Choice

A ring of skulls, and your decoration in the centre
A round embossed leather patch, edged with a ring of skulls in relief. In the centre, you can customise the patch with our choice of decorations: design, feathers and fringe, or no fringe. You choose the patch colour (black, white, red or antique brown) and the design, from 55 designs: 43 feather rivets and 12 pewter motifs. The photo changes with your choice: you see exactly the patch you will receive. To put in the middle of the back of a vest, on a jacket, a saddlebag or anywhere else you like.

Designs for every riding style

• The road: Route 66, V-Twin Engine
• Skulls: Skull, Skull 13, Live Free Ride Hardcore, Skull, Chain Skull, Tribal Skull, Pirate
• Eagles: Eagle, Chain Eagle
• Western spirit: Indian Head Nickel, Buffalo Nickel, Turquoise, Mandala
• For lady bikers: Lady Biker, Rose Flower, Rose, Heart and Rose

With or without fringe
The patch comes plain (€20) or with its decoration (€30). The decoration is a pewter design on a leather washer, with two pewter feathers and leather strips that move in the wind as you ride. The fringe matches the patch: black on antique brown, red or black on red, white or black on white; on black, choose black, red, white, orange or turquoise. A Traveller Shop classic.

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, and the pewter pieces are cast in our own moulds. The relief doesn’t really show in the photo: in real life, the design stands out by about 3 mm (0.12 in), and the patch looks even better.

Technical details:

• Shape: round
• Diameter: 80 mm (3.1 in)
• Colours: black, white, red, antique brown
• Feather rivets: 43 to choose from; fringe in black, red, white, orange or turquoise
• Material: embossed full-grain leather, 2.5 mm (0.1 in) thick, pewter
• Fixing: sew-on (pre-punching optional)
• Made in our workshop in France