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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!

Leather handles in 8 styles, 4 leather colors, and 3 metal finishes

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

Add a label to handles and pulls for superior organization

Flexible but sturdy, creative solutions to tricky problem corners

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

Our blog "In a Nutshell" is chock-a-block with fresh and intriguing content written by in-house humans!

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The Story Behind our Custom Gift Wrap

UPDATED 11/24/24. There's an interesting story behind the design of Walnut Studiolo's own branded gift wrap paper. Not only is it eco friendly, there's also a great story behind the complex custom pattern!

A roll of kraft gift wrap with black line drawings being unfurled and displayed by a woman

Eco-Friendly Gift Wrap

By choosing a black, soy-based ink printing, we were able to print economical gift wrap that is made of a completely recycled, recyclable, and even compost-able material.We even pair it with paper raffia ribbon, which can also be recycled or composted.


Design Came From a 9-Hour Photo Shoot Capturing 5+ Years of Work

In 2012, we decided to celebrate our 5-year anniversary by laying out a complete collection of all the products we sell along with some of the craft tools of the trade and capture it in a beautiful professional photograph. 


The brains behind this idea is our graphic designer, Jon Schafer, who designed the photo into an art print and poster-catalog. Each item in the photo was meticulously laid out and photographed by award-winning photographer Jim Golden. It was a nine-hour photo shoot the old fashioned way, just as the products are made. 


Then, we hand-drew a line drawing on top of the resulting photograph, creating a monochrome design that now graces our gift wrap and later, our Bicycle Print Bandana.


Scroll down to see photos of the photograph being made in the studio, the resulting photograph, and the resulting line drawing from the photograph!

The 9-Hour Photo Shoot: Making of the Original Photograph

A large photo studio with a blue backdrop on the floor. A photography assistant is standing on the backdrop in her socks and holding an object to place into the scene. In the middle of the backdrop if a bicycle that is propped up on stilts to appear laying flat
The collection is filling in in the floor around the bicycle
The photographer is looking at the image on his computer screen of the bicycle collection in the photo studio (Jim Golden)

The 9-Hour Photograph

Top down photograph of a collection on a blue background of neatly lined up leather crafted goods and leather tools, surrounding a white and brown bicycle that is kitted out with leather bicycle accessories. Watermark on top says Copyright Walnut Studiolo and Jim Golden

Line Drawing of the Original Photograph Used for Custom Gift Wrap Pattern

Simple black line drawing of a top down photograph of a collection of neatly lined up leather crafted goods and leather tools, surrounding a bicycle that is kitted out with leather bicycle accessories. Watermark on top says Copyright Walnut Studiolo and Jim Golden

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