Leather borders on patches

[Anonymous]

Finished these and added leather borders. Whats you take on borders? looks like 95 % of the chest patches I have seen do not have borders. Guess it was a personal choice.

 

[Weasel_Loader]

I think it all depended on theater. I'm not a WW2 patch specialist, so I can't say where these appeared most. They do look very sharp though.

 

[unclegrumpy]

You see a lot from the CBI....but often they are patches that were embroidered on silk.

 

[442RCT]

I like leather bordered shoulder patches, but prefer the chest patches without borders because it adds to the size of the patch. If you're a size 40 like me, the diameter of the patch matters.

Great looking patches

 

[dmar836]

I like those a lot!

 

[bseal]

Those look fantastic!

 

[EMBLEMHUNTER]

Some of the "original" patches were done this way, mostly the "shoulder" patches, I've not seen too many jacket front ones this way .

When I make a leather patch what I do is to ake the patch 1/4 inch bigger than what the unit patch would be , if a 5 inch then it's 5 1/4 , and the border is painted in the "brown" color , this way I think sets it off and doesn't look too over exaggrated .

Don't take my comment wrong, Chit Chat's work is great, I just don't personally care for the extra wide borders like these .

Just my opinion .
Johnny/WeBeEmblems