
A Visit to the Leather Market in Sindang-dong
This time, I got to conduct a leathercraft class at school for students who are about to graduate.Since I was doing it anyway, I thought I should teac...
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This time, I got to conduct a leathercraft class at school for students who are about to graduate.Since I was doing it anyway, I thought I should teac...

AliExpress was selling a card wallet mold for 11.88 dollars. With Singles’ Day discounts, it came down to 9.64 dollars. That’s about 13,000 KRW. If you order a card wallet mold with chisels set at 3mm intervals domestically, the price is roughly between 200,000 and 300,000 KRW, so in terms of price alone it’s about 2...

I’d been wanting to buy a rivet setter for a while when I saw one on AliExpress being sold for 31.14 dollars including the molds. When I converted it, it came out to a little over 40,000 won. In leathercraft, though, what really matters is not the money but the finish. Even if something is 20,000 won cheaper, there’s absolutely no reason to buy it if the finish is worse than a domestic product...

After COVID-19, as more people became interested in leathercraft, the demand for it increased significantly. In the past, skiving leather at once had to be done either with large equipment or using one's own skiving tools. However, now it's possible to get half or one square meter skived at an affordable price...

With the aim of finding affordable vegetable leather in Sinseol-dong, I wandered around here and there. I will introduce a few of the places I visited. 1. 37 Leather A place that handles small, pre-cut leathers, where you can purchase small quantities of vegetable leather and Pueblo, about 1-2 pyeong in size. Although pre-cut...

After visiting Sinseol-dong for the first time in a while, I found that Dayang Trading's location has changed. They've moved to the same building as Echere Leather. As expected, they're still the top leather craft supplier in Sinseol-dong. The issue is that it's now located on the basement level, making it a bit hard to find. Let's pay a visit. When you go to that building, you'll see the Dayang Trading sign. In the past, it was easy to locate at the entrance of the Sinseol-dong leather market, but now it's moved to a location that requires effort to find.