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View fullsize If you're searching for a personalized gift, I'm teaching a belt making class at the Textile Art Center in Brooklyn tomorrow evening. You learn how to make a simple belt and leave with a finished product (like the one pictured). More information at t
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View fullsize Final apprenticeship piece: copy of an Hermès shoulder bag (with modifications). Au revoir, France; bonjour NYC summer.
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View fullsize Inspired by @audrey_snyder and took a long bike ride in the Champagne countryside.
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View fullsize My collection will soon double in size before I leave France.
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View fullsize Musée Giger (in the bar)
View fullsize Lost in the clouds; Swiss Alps.
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View fullsize Exercise no. 3 completed.
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View fullsize First real piece made for my apprenticeship.
View fullsize Oh the French tradition of head-butting babies in laundromats.
View fullsize Today's belt test pieces. Along with learning new belt constructions, I learned a lot the hard way. It was mistake Friday at the workshop. At least I wasn't the one to mess up a Louis Vuitton portfolio on the last stitch row.
View fullsize Finally, someone picked up on the fact that I like my middle name.
 
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