Leather Basketballs, Flood Gates, Wood Panel Canvases, Shoelaces

How It's Made – Season 30

Rubber bladders are wrapped with reinforcing material before carefully cut leather panels are fitted, stitched and finished into basketballs. Heavy steel sections are fabricated into flood gates; cotton canvas is stretched, secured and prepared on rigid wood panels for artists; and bundles of thread are braided, cut and tipped to produce shoelaces.