New project: engraving and cutting leather…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr_it93m8wQ
is that hand drawn and scanned?
Actually it’s a vectorized scan from a piece of decorated cloth (which was probably hand drawn… )
(And yes, the material shifted a tiny bit, which explains the little gaps in the etched oval…)
ah cool, was not sure if that was a mistake or part of the drawing, hard to tell, did you cut the holes so you can stitch easily?
Yes… Why try piercing holes yourself, when you can have the laser do it for you? These were drawn as 0.2mm circles spaces along an oval (both CorelDraw - which Miriam favors - and InkScape support that)
It’s rigory leather (about 3mm thick) so it’s not good for a sewing machine (broken needles and warped axles are a possibility) although washing and oiling it does make it suppler and softer…
Indeed! it smells tho XD, I think there are special needles for leather saskia got some when she made a leather phone case. Using the laser to punch holes makes life alot easier for the stitching 
There are special needles, but still, rigory leather is best stitched with either a specialized machine (like shoemakers use) or by hand…
And it does smell… But that’s what we’ve got air-extraction for! 
Yeah but it really smells!! haha