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  • Make High-Quality Bags at Home with Canvas, Leather, and Rivets - Klum House

    Make High-Quality Bags at Home with Canvas, Leather, and Rivets

    In this workshop replay, Ellie teaches all about making high-quality bags at home with waxed canvas, the best leather for straps, and two types of rivets (double-cap & tubular), as well as setting tools, best...

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  • How to Remove Double-Cap Rivets - Klum House

    How to Remove Double-Cap Rivets

    Double-cap rivets make it easy to use luxe metal hardware to attach the leather straps onto your bags - and set with just a hammer! However, hardware can be intimidating if...

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  • How To Attach Leather Straps - Klum House

    How To Attach Leather Straps

    This is a tutorial video to help you attach your leather straps with metal rivets and leather reinforcement washers correctly. This tutorial can be used for any of your bag projects...

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  • How to use a Double-cap Rivet Setter - Klum House

    How to use a Double-cap Rivet Setter

    In this video, Klum House founder Ellie Lum demonstrates how to set a double-cap rivet using a double-cap rivet setter, mallet, and granite slab. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Find all...

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  • Rivets, Rivets, Rivets - Klum House

    Rivets, Rivets, Rivets

    If you’ve ever made a Klum House bag, you know that we LOVE rivets. Rivets are metal fasteners that are great for securely attaching leather to your bag. In this...

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  • How to Set Tubular Rivets - Klum House

    How to Set Tubular Rivets

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  • How to Remove Tubular Rivets - Klum House

    How to Remove Tubular Rivets

    Remove rivets without fuss! This rivet removal tool is a total game changer. It makes removing metal rivets (both double-cap and tubular) so quick and easy. It comes with a strike...

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  • Double-Cap VS. Tubular Rivets - Klum House

    Double-Cap VS. Tubular Rivets

    Rivets are, hands-down, the most-used piece of hardware in any Klum House bag project. Rivets are metal fasteners that make it possible to attach leather to your bag (like tote...

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  • How to Install Double-Cap Rivets - Klum House

    How to Install Double-Cap Rivets

    This video features 3 different ways to set double cap rivets for attaching leather straps and details to bag projects: (1) classic setting (2) with a leather reinforcement tab (3)...

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