Originally Posted by
Colin Graham
Most commercial bag bellows have seams on all sides. If carefully made the seams really aren't a problem at all. As I described in the link, each seam is reinforced with a strip from scraps of the same fabric laminate. Also, cutting four symmetrical patterns greatly simplified the assembly, and greatly reduced the waste for this type of pattern. The only reason this project took more than an hour was because I made the frames as well.
I've made pillow-case style bellows that have less seams, but they need to be fairly large to offer the same amount of movements. But if you have a good design for a bag bellows I'd certainly be interested.
The material I linked to is a 5' x 9' piece of cloth, so I would also be interested in a source for genuine black leather that was similarly priced.
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