Made in the UKCustom printed leather is perfect for making your own personalised leather bags, wallets and other unique leather gifts. Your designs are printed directly onto the genuine leather in bold, HD colours. Printing on leather gives you the opportunity to create bespoke accessories that match your style.
Printing on leather gives you the ultimate opportunity to make your own homemade purses, wallets or custom leather bags, printed with a design that reflects your style.
Browse our range of real leathers
Soft nappa that is pliable. Full grain leather. 0.7 - 0.9 mm thick. Stamped 'Bison' grain textured face, white base.
Soft, pliable nappa. Full grain leather at 1.4 mm thick. Flat, smooth face with a white base.
Stiff, corrected grain leather. 1.3 - 1.5 mm thick. Smooth face with a white base colour. Non-crease.
Thick leather. Full grain double butt. 2.4 - 2.6 mm thick. White base colour.
Care instructions
Surface wipe only. Clean gently by hand with mild soapy damp cloth.
Martindale tested for strength
The leather has a white base colour which gives wonderfully finished custom leather fabric. Colours are true to the original: bold, bright and vivid. Fine details show up exceptionally, up to 2pt, making leather printing perfect for highly detailed prints. It can be folded, bent and stretched with little to no creasing or wrinkling, dependant on the type of leather, so will stay smooth. We use the latest leather printing technology to print your photos onto the 100% real custom leather fabric, which we do directly onto both the flat and textured options. This makes the inks penetrate deep into the fibres and are undisturbed by the surface texture.
You can make your own personalised leather bag to match your individual style. There are so many lookalike handbags on the market, but here you can be in control of the pattern, colours and shape of your bag. This will make a unique printed leather gift that can be used time and time again and will only get better with age.
We've also seen customers use digital leather printing to restore accessories like wallets and purses. When you have the base interior of your purse, you can stitch your printed leather to it and turn it into a brand new fashion item.
Upholstering furniture is another creative use for printing on custom leather fabric, as you can trim chairs with your custom leather fabric, finished with metal studs. This is a classic and traditional aesthetic that'll transform your home decor.
Important: Not suitable for children's toys or pet products, due to the risk of ink being forcefully removed and ingested.
If you can’t decide on which photo to use, you can upload multiple images and create a photo collage. This can be done using one of our pre-set montage templates, or you can create your own entirely from scratch. It’s super easy to do and the possibilities are endless.
Smart Collage
Adjust the sizes of your photos and move them around in a smart grid.
Plain (No background)
Your photos in a grid and placed on a plain background.
Photo Frame
Your photos in a grid placed on a copy of one of the images as a background.
Scatter
Your photos cover the entire area and are placed on a layered background made up of copies of your images.
Plain Heart (No background)
Your photos in a heart shaped outline and placed on a plain background.
Frame Heart
Your photos in a heart shaped outline and placed on a copy of one of the images as a background.
Do it Yourself
Your photos are placed onto your design for you to arrange exactly as you’d like.
Step 1 – Click the start design button & select your product options.
Step 2 – Go to the ‘Images & Text Tools’ tab, click the ‘add images/Text’ button on your product & ‘Select Images to Upload’ or use the Facebook/Instagram tabs.
Step 3 – Choose the images you want to use for your collage, upload & select them from the uploaded photos list.
Step 4 – Click ‘Create montage’ & select your collage style.
Step 5 – Add the collage to your design.
We only source the best quality leather to make your customised prints, leaving the reverse unfinished for an authentic look and feel. To create such bold, vibrant prints, we transfer your picture to leather using digital leather printing. This ensures the ink won't peel away or scratch off, creating a long-lasting leather photo. Direct digital printing on leather ensures your custom image will be as strong as the leather itself, for a truly everlasting personalised item.
The Nappa leather is sourced via Italian tanneries for printing and finishing in our own in-house atelier studio. This work is by hand and to order. As a full grain, bovine-calf leather, it is graded to the highest level for print and manufacturing quality.
Please note: Leather printing is a bespoke process, so the exact size of your piece of custom leather fabric can be slightly smaller than the stated dimensions. This will be no more than a maximum of 4mm.
All of our fabrics are printed at 200dpi. This works for us as it combines a great quality as well as a good file weight. In order to avoid resizing and interpolation, we recommend that you scale your image to 100% at 200dpi. Our design interface works with a traffic light system that acts as a quality marker for your designs. This will show you whether the resolution is too low for printing. When you re-upload your design with
Your uploaded design will automatically be scaled to fit the size of
We always recommend using an RGB colour space when you upload your images. More specifically, we suggest using the sRGB image profile, to achieve
There is no length limit for most of our fabrics. Our preview design window is set up to display a maximum of 10m to help you visualise the print, but that doesn't mean this is the print limit. If you'd like to order more, you can increase the quantity (x2 for 20m or x4 for 40m for example) and order as much as you'd like. Larger volumes will receive an automatic discount too. While the fabric length is nothing to worry about, each individual fabric will have a maximum width side: these can be found on the fabric's page information or in the design interface.
Yes, that will help you when it comes to cutting or framing your printed fabric. We recommend always adding a little extra space for borders into your purchased fabric size. When we print your
Crocking is the term used to describe fading along the creases in
Yes, our organic fabrics don't have an additional coating like non-organic fabrics have, which means it absorbs the inks deep into its fibre and reducing the colour strength slightly (this can be approximately -40%). If you would like a bolder, more vibrant colour for your fabric, we would suggest using a non-organic fabric.
Unfortunately not; all of our fabrics have been tested meticulously to ensure we know exactly how to get the best results, and our facilities cater perfectly to them. If you are set on a fabric we don't offer, we can offer custom printed sublimation paper to order which will allow you to heat press your designs onto your own fabrics.
If your design is simple and less intricate, a JPEG will be absolutely fine. However, if you have created a design with multi-coloured detailing, we would recommend saving your design in a TIFF format.
Similar to other fabric printing processes, shrinkage can occur. The amount of shrinkage will depend on the fabric, but as a general rule of thumb, please allow for 2-8% shrinkage when working out your measurements. Shrinkage is not an exact science, and the amount of shrinkage will vary from print run to print run. We'd always suggest ordering a little more than you need for your project.
Many of the fabrics we offer are semi-transparent, so printing on both sides of the fabric is not a service we offer.
At the moment, all of our fabric labels are printed on satin fabric. For now, we believe this is the best choice, but will potentially introduce other options in the future. All labels are cut to the same label format. If you would like to choose a different fabric and format for your labels, you could always order a sheet of the fabric of your choice to create labels yourself.
Our fabrics are printed with water-based inks as environmental consciousness is
Although very rare, there could be a slight colour difference from one print run to another. This is a normal part of the printing process,
Our full cut & sew service at Bags of Love can be used to your full advantage. We even offer hemming for your fabrics at a small additional cost. Our hems are created with a one or two cold hem that typically uses around 5 to 20mm of fabric (depending on the thickness of your chosen material). Please bear this in mind when you are ordering your printed fabric with hems: If you would like your finished piece to be 100cm x 100cm, change your dimensions to 101.5cm instead to allow space for your hems (you will also need to include additional for potential shrinkage). The thicker the fabric, the bigger the hem will be. Your printed fabric will be hemmed with either Black or White thread. If you are ordering a lightly woven material or
For further information about our fabrics see our FAQs.
Please note: As everything we provide is handmade to order, you may find a slight variance in the sizes.
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