Alan, My wife has a Barudan embroidery machine. It is a professional embroidery machine that she bought in North Carolina about five years ago. She has done some embroidery on leather. Mostly she does hats ,shirts jackets, and blankets. She has a dgitizing program on her computer with the machine. She can take a photo and digitize it to print out on her machine, and then embroider it on the item. She also is a very good artist. She has drawn some of her own designs to embroider. She does alot of stuff for me and my son. Good woman, and she likes the car hobby.