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American Lobster

A leather American lobster, purple with white speckle, built from wet-formed tail plates, leg segments and swimmerets.

Leather American lobster painted deep red-purple, with long antennae, on black fabric
Top view of the leather American lobster
Top
Underside of the leather American lobster showing legs and swimmerets
Underside
Close-up of the leather American lobster's head and antennae
Detail
Underside of the leather lobster: orange and white tail segments, blue legs and spotted tail fan
Underside
Leather American lobster in vegetable-tanned cowhide

The build

From the bench.

Pencil pattern for the lobster's tail segments on graph paper
Fitting the top and bottom patterns
Lobster underside, wet-formed
Underside, wet-formed
Undyed wet-formed veg-tan tail section for the lobster
Tail, wet-formed
Lobster tail fan
Tail fan
Pieces of the lobster's tail fan, blue and purple with white spots and an orange fringe
Tail fan
Lobster tail fan
Tail fan
Lobster tail, underside in progress
Tail, underside in progress
Speckle spatter
Speckle spatter
Lobster shell
Shell
Lobster underside in progress
Underside in progress
Lobster in progress with patterns
In progress with patterns
Cut veg-tan swimmerets for the lobster, before dye
Swimmeret blanks
Lobster tail, underside
Tail, underside
Lobster tail, top
Tail, top
Small wet-formed veg-tan cones for the lobster's leg segments
Leg segments
Lobster thorax underside
Thorax underside
Lobster leg
Leg
Leather lobster with a purple, white-speckled shell and banded legs, in progress
Lobster antennae
Antennae
Lobster, head detail
Head detail
Lobster, head detail
Head detail
Lobster in progress
Lobster in progress
Lobster claw before wet-forming
Claw before wet-forming

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