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A Black woman wearing a denim shirt is carrying a bicycle down a set of stairs in an urban environment. The bicycle has a green paint job and honey leather wrapped handlebars.

Original, unique designs to help with lifting and carrying your bicycle

Lifetime leather bar wraps in five styles for every type of handlebar and bicycle

A woman bicycling on a bright summer day over a green lawn wearing suede fringe cowgirl boots and with a 6-pack of Anchor Steam beer connected to the top tube of her bicycle with a honey leather 6-pack frame cinch

Best-selling "commuter essentials" for making the daily commute easier

A dark brown leather round, barrel-shaped saddle bag with cedar wood sides mounted to the back of a brown leather Brooks saddle on a cream-and-brown painted bicycle

Stunning handcrafted bicycle bags carry the essentials and turn heads!

Two people playing a game of travel cribbage on a wooden picnic table with a small leather and birch cribbage board

Our original best-selling Travel Cribbage Boards have fans worldwide

Two sets of travel dice on a dark brown leather table surface. Both sets show six dice coming out of a square brass tube. The dice are 7mm, smaller than standard. One has white dice and the other has black dice.

Play dice anywhere you go in a handcrafted brass keychain or necklace.

Two people playing dominoes using small, domino-sized playing cards on a walnut wood table with snacks and drinks. The domino cards are double 12 with different colors for each number and hand-drawn.

Uniquely functional for travel: hand-drawn domino playing cards (2 sizes!)

Close-up of a folding leather travel backgammon board mid-play on a weathered wood surface. A hand is reaching in and moving four game pieces (which are brass nails) between triangles, which are laser-engraved in the honey dyed leather. Accessories are visible, dice and doubling cube and peg storage

Our newest folding leather board and favorite game: Travel Backgammon!

A variety of handcrafted leather and wood handles on a sample board as seen from above and an angle

All handcrafted handles in 8 styles, 4 leather colors, & 3 metal finishes

A white chest of drawers in a white and lilac baby nursery with three colors of leather Morrison bin pull handles, in Honey, Dark Brown, and Black

Strong yet soft, durable and sustainable, no-bumps and no-bruises

Collection details, stylesheets, dimensions, sizing, palette & more

Two cabinet doors swinging open towards each other with matching leather Lovejoy loop handles. The leather touches so the cabinets don't crash into each other, a solution for problem corners in kitchen design planning

Flexible but sturdy, creative solutions to tricky problem corners

We wrote a free educational series about our favorite material, delivered to your inbox.

Leather 101

Valerie and Geoff from Walnut Studiolo are standing on a pile of driftwood between two boulders on the North Oregon Coast beach near Manzanita, with mountains and grey sky in the background

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A long dark brown leather blueprint tube is shown on a long countertop being hand stitched together by Geoff, whose stitching hands are in the background

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Valerie and Geoff Franklin of Walnut Studiolo standing behind their bicycles on a grassy green lawn. Geoff is doffing his hat to Valerie and she is smiling, as a gesture of service.

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A Note from Walnut on COVID-19

UPDATED 8/4/20. The COVID-19 pandemic is creating big changes everywhere we look. We want to help. Here's how we're doing our part, plus some thoughtful hopes for the future.

March 31, 2020
6 min read

23 Ideas to Keep Yourself Occupied During the COVID-19 Crisis

We're all under COVID-19 lockdown together! Here are our best maker projects and quarantine activities ideas that we're doing to keep from going stir-crazy (other than streaming television!)

March 31, 2020
4 min read

Free Gift Wrap During the COVID-19 Crisis

We're taking extra-tender care of all your gifts during the COVID crisis.

March 29, 2020
1 min read

Meet Tanuki, Our New Shop Kitten

We are delighted to introduce our new shop assistant, Tanuki the Siberian kitten.

March 25, 2020
1 min read

Meditations on the survival of craftsmanship

How can we survive making crafts into the future? And is there any point to making crafts when machines and factories are so good, so prevalent, and make goods so affordably?

In this post, we're going to meditate a little on the value of craft and craftsmanship, and the future as we see it.

January 21, 2020
5 min read

Collage of four photos of Huskey, a black and white cat, from being a small kitten to cuddling with Geoff, stretching on the floor, and looking at us from the bannister, with the words In Memory of Huskey: 2008-2020

In memory of Huskey, the greatest shop cat who ever lived

This weekend we lost our family member and shop cat, Huskey. This is his obituary, and a photo essay of his life.

January 12, 2020
6 min read

2019 Year in Review: Celebrating Milestones

We have a lot to celebrate, both big and small. Here are a few notable moments from our 2019.

December 29, 2019
2 min read

Celebrating TEN years in business with special offers and announcements

A retrospective celebrating 10 years in business.

October 07, 2019
4 min read

Photo Essay: Evolution of a Workshop

We take a look back on how our workshop space evolved over ten years in business with this photo essay.

October 02, 2019
3 min read

Photo Essay: A Day in the Life at Walnut Studiolo

Come behind the digital curtain with us and enjoy this photo essay. We snapped pictures of ourselves at intervals during a typical day working and living from home as a small family business, on the eve of our 10th year in business.