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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

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

Stunning handcrafted bicycle bags carry the essentials and turn heads!

Our original best-selling Travel Cribbage Boards have fans worldwide

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flexible but sturdy, creative solutions to tricky problem corners

Our blog"In a Nutshell" is written by humans:

- how-to guides

- in-depth articles

- photo essays

We wrote a free educational series about our favorite material, from how it's made to spotting vintage quality

In a Nutshell

Brass and leather are two natural materials that go together beautifully, and even a little tarnish is nothing to worry about. If you wish, you can return brass to its original natural shine easily and quickly with a cleaning product like Brasso.
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A tutorial on how to cut, bevel, dye, and burnish leather edges using easily available tools found at home.
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In this post, we'll explain and show the differences between our four leather colors: Natural, Honey, Dark Brown, and Black.
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In this post, we'll walk through the various leather care products and introduce you to the world of leather crafting.
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What "quality" means for types of leather: tannage, sourcing, processing, finishes. Builds on previous lessons in our leather learning series.
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How craftsmen select from the variable leather hides to create quality products: stretch, thickness, shape. Plus - why maker-made matters. (Lesson #7 of 11)
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How cowhide leather gets processed or split into different kinds of leather, and what names mean: full grain, top grain, genuine, suede, bonded. (Lesson #2 of 11)
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Leather finishes at the tannery and in the workshop, including coloring, coatings, and waxes to enhance or obscure quality .Why they might be used and why they matter. (Lesson #6 of 11)
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In this kick-off to our leather learning series (#1/11) we go through a broad overview of what leather is, how it's made, and why it's important.
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Tanning is a preservation process. The different ways leather can be tanned using natural tannins or chemicals. (Lesson #4 of 11)
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A broad overview of the different kinds of leather sources: animal, vegetable, fungus, plastic, and paper.
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More than once, we've been surprised to find how little information there is about leather - as broadly diverse a natural material as fabric or wood. We can't wait to tell you more about it. What would you like to know?
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