Hi everyone I hope you're doing well!
I haven't been very active on here lately but looks like I'm back :)
The latest bag I made was a bag which needed some reinforcement material and also had to be turned inside out in the process of it being made. I've made some turned bags before. You know, totes and such but never really had to put in some reinforcement in one. This was the first time.
For this bag I used 0.2 mm skin-flex as bag stiffener and everything was going fine until I turned the bag over . Even though I was very careful while turning it over the bag came out wrinkled.
I managed to get most of the bigger wrinkles out of by ironing the inside of the bag with an iron on the lowest heat setting. But its still not looking to good in my opinion. I made this video so you can see what I mean with wrinkles:
My question to you guys. Did you come across this problem yourself? And if you did, how did you solve it. Do you have any suggestions on how to avoid this in the future?
Thank's again for the advice! I remade the bag using pigskin as bag stiffener and the bag turned out fine. No wrinkles this time.
Edit: I'll post the result here. The post I made in 'share your project' somehow vanished.
I only did a reinforced turned tote once, and out of sheer luck, i used a 1.0mm soft chrome tan on the inside (compare to the 2mm exterior) and there were no wrinkles on the outside ounce turned.
I had to watch video twice to see the wrinkles. My point is that they aren’t what you notice when you look at the bag. I noticed a great looking leather bag.
To add structure to a bag that is to be flipped, you need to use a material that is compressible. The wrinkles are where the material is refusing to compress evenly resulting in the frustrating effect that you have found - as have I.
To add structure in future, look to actual leather which compresses and stretches evenly and gives the most leather like handle there is.
Suede splits, sheep skins and chamois are available so cheaply, ironically cheaper than many synthetic wonder-linings trying their best to imitate leathers characteristics.
The rule of thumb is that the interlining/leather lining should be more flexible and more able to stretch and compress than the exterior leather.
At this point, ironing and hot air won't really help unless the 'skin-flex' is heat moldable.