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The First Year of a Vegetable-Tanned Wallet
We photographed the same wallet every month for twelve months. Here is what actually happens to bark-tanned leather, and roughly when.
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Choosing a Hide: What We Look For in a Shoulder
We reject about a third of what we are offered. Not because it is bad leather, but because of where the flaws sit and…
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Nine Stitches to the Inch, and Why It Matters
Stitch density is the one specification nobody advertises and everybody feels. A short argument for doing it slowly, with two needles.
From the bench
Journal
Notes on hides, hardware, wear patterns and the slow business of making things by hand.
