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Coyote’s got a brand new bag!

It’s brown, round, and normally you only care about the content. What is it?

A bag of course. A bag of the Santa Clause type to be exact. Cause just like the guy with the red dress our coyote will carry around a bunch of things others would like to have.

Yet when it comes to finding the right bag, unlike our white-bearded friend our main character faces a bit of a problem: he’s just a couple of inches tall. Therefore he can’t just use any bag but needs a custom sized one, a miniature - one that looks like a big one in close shots.

Unfortunately we couldn’t get one with the right characteristics - size, cloth structure and so on. So we had to create it by ourselves.

For the cloth we chose one of those eco-friendly carrying bags you can get at German supermarkets. It was perfect for our matters, except its color. However, we could easily change that with some dye - coffee. With that little trick of my grandma’s we achieved not only the right color but a battered look. Yeah!

The last step: sewing. We consider ourselves quite able to handle clay or styrodure, yet to sew one good looking bag from scratch needs some different skill. Fortunately my grandpa once worked for a famous German bag/backpack manufacturer. He was so kind to help us and even let me take some photos to do the following little step-by-step guide:

In the first step the base surface area and nappe of the bag are drawn on and cut out of the cloth.

Then you put a hem on the top side of the still rectangular nappe and sew up the left and right side.

To prevent the shifting of nappe and base when sewing them to one piece my grandpa had a little trick: you fold the two parts twice each and cut off the “edges” to mark the quarters.

That way you can easily adjust nappe and base. Just some more sewing…

Now turn the bag inside out and it’s done!

Written on September 4. 2007 at 02:27in Pre-production. Comments as Feed via RSS 2.0 . Trackback-URL.

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