Installing Eyelets And Grommets On Leather

Eyelets and Grommets are used to reinforce holes on any leather or canvas project to prevent tearing. Whenever you want to put a lace, a string, or something of that nature through a hole in lightweight or soft leather, like an upholstery leather, it's a good idea to reinforce that hole.

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[lauraciocia]

I just love George's teaching style and his demeanor. Thanks for another great tutorial!

[bskol]

i know this is an older video now, but just want to say thank you for making it. Simple and to the point.

[roxanne]

short and painless.this is a good video.really learned a lot..thanks for sharing.

[Stephen_Challis]

Thank you so much for this instructive video. I am in my late 50s; my father died 16 years ago leaving me the contents of his garage and much teaching over the years about DIY. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying much attention the day he told me about grommets. I have never needed them until today when I suddenly remembered they might be useful for a repair I am doing. Having studied them and the contents of his father's first world war munitions chest that he kept his tools in, I could not fathom how to use them. From this video I have learned that I was right about how to use them - I just didn't have the tools. Goodness knows what dad did with them. Off to the hardware shop to add to my collection of tools I'll only ever use once!!.

[theratkingrulerofthesewers]

This man is a legend omg my happiness can not be contained

[marythomas]

Excellent! Best instructions on YouTube, simple, clear and precise. Thank you so much.

[kamilakossakowska]

Perfect video. Straight to the point, great information, and great instructions. Thank you

[COTU]

This was a perfect video.  Straight and to the point.  Thank you for taking time to make and post this.

[RyanH]

Excellent video. This video also does a good example of showing the difference in quality tools and grommets vs cheap. I see a lot of videos of grommets splitting around washers, people driving them all at once. Not rotating. Things like that. Watch this video closely. This is who it's done!

[Anthony_in_Bloomington_Indiana]

Nice shooting, Tex! You made this look easy!

Yesterday morning, I discovered I had lost my new, leather wallet! What a drag. Thankfully, I found my wallet last night around 10 pm. The night before, I had taken the wallet out of my front, left pants pocket because it was sticking out, thanks to my telephone being in the same pocket. I put the wallet next to some books, on the passenger side of my car.

The hour was late and I was tired. So I forgot I had moved my wallet. So I moved my wallet because I did not want to lose it. Then forgot about it, and so lost if for a day! Oh, the irony.

I decided I need to put a grommet in that wallet, and add a chain and a carabiner, because I am so good at misplacing things.

I have a foot of blue rope and a carabiner for my keys. This method works very well! I have not lost my keys since I added the carabiner.

I did lose my keys one evening when I was at Lake Harriet for an evening concert! I retraced my steps, and thankfully found them in less than five minutes.

[davidroberts]

Thanks, this helped me to get some eyelets into golf towels. I bought a kit with no instructions so this was really useful. 

[cole]

This was beautifully done. Thank you for the advice.

[biancamartin]

Great tutorial! So easy to follow. Thanks for this 😃

[brianher]

Dude I love your video! The voice the speed and the experience flow well together!

[britlady]

That was a brilliantly concise explanation and demonstration. I had always wondered how that was done. It was fascinating - Thank you!! Terri (UK)

[Aityler]

Leave it to Tandy to have the best available easy to find and audibly understandable difference between eyelets and grommetts. Saw thre first that had robotic voice over and simply inaudible voice over. Thanks Tandy.

[lureesspace]

I just received a groomet and tool kit from e-bay with no instructions. Thanks so much for the help.

[jprogman]

Thanks for the help! I'm obviously new to that and going crazy with the eyelets.

[Vaspian]

Thank you for this video. I wanted to add eyelets to a purse and this video helped me a lot! Thanks!

[Generalacexl]

Perfect instructions and clear explanations thank you very much for making this!