Explore our large collection of cork cords for jewelry making in different colors and sizes at wholesale prices.

In our collection you will find flat and round cork cords. If you are looking for a eco-friendly material for your jewelry and accessories designing than cork cord would be your answer. Cork is considered a sustainable material due to its harvesting and recycling techniques, while producing cork only the bark of the tree is stripped and the tree continues to grow. Our cork cords can be used in combination with our stainless steel clasps and findings. Get on the sustainability bandwagon and create eco-friendly jewelry using our cork cords.

We also provides below leather cords.

Flat

Cork Sheet

Have you heard about eco friendly leather? What exactly is it and the way is it made? Firstly, can leather cords be eco-friendly? YES! Leather are often eco friendly when the products are tanned naturally without using of any chemicals. The manufacture of leather does have an environmental impact.

Why : Tanneries use chromium salts that cause skin irritation and in some cases, cancer. Studies have shown that finished leather products — especially those in direct contact with the skin, like gloves or shoes — contain high levels of toxic chemicals, which will cause skin reactions like eczema. One German study found the substance in additional than half the leather products it examined.Leather is usually more profitable for farmers to sell( more so than animal meat). The softest, most luxurious leather comes from the skin of newborn or maybe unborn calves, cut prematurely out of their mother’s wombs. chrome-tanning facility wastes nearly 15,000 gallons of water and produces up to 2,200 pounds of “solid waste” (e.g., hair, flesh, and trimmings) for each ton of hides that it processes.

Tannery

Currently : Various new ways of tanning leather has been used which is eco-friendly. like using un-dyed or vegetable tanned leather. one among the foremost sustainable materials used at the instant is salmon skin from organically bred salmon for human consumption. In the U.S., many of the many cows and other animals who are killed for his or her skin endure the horrors of factory farming — extreme crowding and deprivation also as castration, branding, tail-docking, and dehorning — all with none painkillers.and also provides round leather cords and braided leather cords as well.

Alternatives/ Future : MuSkin, we will actually grow this mushroom leather to the dimensions and shape you would like for any given design. Paper was wont to create a whole cathedral and Bottega Veneta created a bag using paper as well!

Paguro imitates the design of fine grain, matte leather, which translates beautifully into their various accessory designs using recycled rubber.

Tree Bark Leather cord makes the foremost gorgeous coats which are all unique.

Supporting faux leather or leather alternatives are going to be more sustainable and inexpensive! You’ll be surprised to ascertain how easy it's to seek out alternatives as well!

Disover the largest range of styles and colors in Regaliz Leather bracelets  at wholesale prices.

Our regaliz leather is of diameter, 10mm*7mm oval shaped and is flat on the bottom and rounded on the top. Our licorice leather cords are made in Europe and dyed with heat-set vegetable dye making the colors on the leather very natutal. The sizes and the color of the cord can vary slightly from batch to batch due to the natural production system of regaliz leathe cords. Our extenstive collection of regaliz leather in different styles (plain, stitched and with crystals) can be very well combined with our stainless steel slider beads and clasps especially designed for regaliz leather jewelry.

Shop the regaliz leather cord that suits your requirements and make the perfect accessory!

Most of my time Round leather cord working is spent creating baggage. And tote baggage are out and away my best sellers. Tote baggage are simply insanely common right away. And because they're pretty common, there are tons of individuals who are commerce them. don't be concerned tho', there are some straightforward ways in which to create your work stand out. For instance, most of the tote baggage I've seen have one of two totally different handles: a flat handle and a un smooth handle.

Flat handles are usually created with one strip of leather cord seamed to the bag. they're fast to create, however do not wear o.k.. Corded handles are a touch additional sturdy... and that they look method higher. They take a touch bit longer to create, however are not any tougher. Here's a way to create them:

MATERIALS
-a polyester rope
-3oz to 5oz animal skin strips
-thread and handicraft needles (I use tiger thread)
-glue (I use siewa's)
-way too several binder clips (I used 30-40ish)
-stitching horse
-diamond chisel & hammer

SIZE OF HANDLES

First you will need to work out the length of the handles. this can be typically determined by what's named as drop length. Drop length is that the distance between high|the highest} of the bag and therefore the top of the handles. If you intend on commerce baggage or doing custom work, this can be one in every of the items you will need to own found out to speak to your client.

The end of the straps are simply animal skin rolled-up over itself. there isn't any twine in them because the twine is tucked back a small amount. I usually have the ends of my straps between three and four inches long, which needs vi to eight inches of animal skin as a result of they're created by folding the animal skin back on itself. which means that if you would like a strap that's four 6 inches long and therefore the ends to be 4 inches, the twine ought to be move thirty eight in.es long (which takes into consideration the four inch animal skin finishs on either end) and therefore the strip of animal skin ought to be move 54inches (which takes into the account the eight inches of animal skin that may be required on every end to create the animal skin ends). If that is all a small amount confusing, here's a formula that may work whenever.

Cord Length = Length of Handle - 2(Desired finish Length)

Leather Strip Length = cord Length + 4(Desired finish Length)

Now that you simply apprehend the length required, you may conjointly have to be compelled to work out the dimension. don't be concerned, this one could be a very little easier to clarify. to seek out the dimension, I merely take a chunk of scrap animal skin from the hide that i am victimization for the project and wrap it round the twine. after you try this, make certain that there's associate far more than 1/2inch to 3/8inch on either side to go away area for handicraft. once doing this, no matter that dimension comes bent be is that the required dimension of your animal skin straps.

With the animal skin straps and cords cut out, you'll currently glue them along. Apply glue to the undersurface of the animal skin strips, however solely place the glue wherever the twine are going to be. If you followed the previous steps, you will have eight inches on each ends that may stay unglued. Then tightly pull up the animal skin on each side, therefore the edges of the animal skin straps line up dead.

Once it's lined up, use binder clips to stay the animal skin along because the glue dries.

This is my favorite half as a result of this can be wherever the handles extremely begin to come back along. Glue finishings and fold them upwards till they cowl the end of the twine. you'll have to be compelled to tuck the animal skin into the indentation that's created, so the perimeters line up dead.

If you are unable to line the perimeters up dead, you'll forever trim the surplus, however with most flat leather cord (especially supple ones) it should not be necessary. Once you have rolled-up the animal skin properly, place a binder clip wherever the half you only rolled-up over meets the twine.

At now, trimming excess animal skin is quite troublesome, that is why I try and live as exactly as I will in the first step. If you're feeling you have got an excessive amount of excess animal skin on the sting of the strap, you'll plan to cut a number of the surplus off here. simply be warned that it's extremely troublesome to induce a clean straight cut.

To start the handicraft, I used a bone folder to make a line down the sting that's as about to the twine as attainable. I usually run this line between the 2 points wherever the twine meets the ends that were created within the previous step. This leaves the ends unstitched, however i'll rivet them to the bag later.

However, if you would like to sew the complete issue (ends included) you'll. All you wish to try to to is still run the road down one aspect of the ends. you may begin and finish your sew at the bottom of every finish. Then you may return and create another handicraft line on the opposite aspect of the tip and sew it with a separate piece of thread.

But returning back to what I did: I took a diamond chisel and make my holes, ensuring to stay the chisel comfortable against the twine and perpendicular to the animal skin as I punch it through.

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