Every strap we sell passes across one workbench. This page is the honest tour – what happens between a hide arriving and a strap leaving in a flat paper sleeve.
Cut along the back
Leather is strongest along the spine of the hide, so straps are clicked out lengthwise from the back bend – never the belly, where leather stretches and straps go wavy. Each blank is checked against a template for thickness before it earns stitching.
Stitched where it matters
Straps fail at the lug fold and the buckle fold, so that is where the work goes: waxed thread, saddle-stitched, backstitched at both ends. Glue positions, thread holds – a stitched strap can be repaired, a glued one can only be mourned.
Edges burnished twice
Edges are painted, sanded back and burnished, then done again. It is the slowest step and the one you feel every time a cuff slides over the strap. Rushed edges fray in a season; burnished edges just get glossier.
Checked, then shipped flat
Every strap gets its spring bars fitted, its buckle seated and a last pass under the lamp before it ships – flat in a paper sleeve, never folded. A strap that arrives creased has already been mistreated once; ours arrive the way they should be worn.
