Nicole Rudolph | I Made Leaf Shoes out of REAL Leaves! @NicoleRudolph | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
What else do you do with giant leaf leather than make a pair of leaf shoes? I've wanted to experiment with different plant leathers to see how they compare to the types of leathers that work well for shoes. It took a long time to finally source some of the raw material, but with an elven photoshoot coming up, it seemed like the perfect time!

I had to be a bit creative with this design and process, however, as leaf leather is much more fragile and unforgiving than regular leathers. So not every style or last shape would do well. Shoemaking is usually a tough process that puts a lot of stress on the materials in order to get a clean shape. In the end, it was more like making a paper shoe than a leather one!

Leaf Leather: districtleathers.com/collections/leaf-leather

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00:00 Leaf Leather
04:02 Design
08:06 Prep
10:16 Lasting
19:15 Finishing
21:27 Reveal