The Tokyo Bicycle Swap Meet - Walnut

The 11th Annual Earth Day AS-IS Sale Begins April 17!

The 11th Annual Earth Day AS-IS Sale Begins April 17!

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

About Us

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

More Information

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.

Customer Service

"In a Nutshell": Our blog has fresh human-written content with how-to guides and news

The Blog

This blog is written by humans.

100% written by humans.
We don't use generative A.I.

Read Our Statement on A.I.

by admin
June 06, 2014
1 min read

While we were in Tokyo, we were lucky enough to meet up with Danny from Cyclism.jp and go to a local cycling club's biannual swap meet. Swap meets are my favorite. They're the best way to really get a finger on the pulse of the most passionate and creative expressions of cycling in a community.
Tokyo's swap meet was no exception. Here are some pictures:

The Tokyo Bicycle Swap Meet, in a field way out at the end of the metro line next to the river.

The Tokyo Bicycle Swap Meet, in a field way out at the end of the metro line next to the river.

A slightly rusty Peugeot bicycle with all-original bicycle accessories

A slightly rusty Peugeot bicycle with all-original bicycle accessories

A King of the Mountains themed fold-up bicycle

A King of the Mountains themed fold-up bicycle

This dapper gentleman was an expert metalcrafter who made the chrome and filigreed bikes shown below.

This dapper gentleman was an expert metalcrafter who made the chrome and filigreed bikes shown below.

Hello, 80's bicycle! With pin-ups in the spokes.

Hello, 80's bicycle! With pin-ups in the spokes.

What's not to love about this bicycle?

What's not to love about this bicycle?

And, um, a cat food themed bicycle?

And, um, a cat food themed bicycle?

Chrome, baby.

Chrome, baby.

At first glance, from far away, I couldn't appreciate how special this filigreed bronze bicycle is.

At first glance, from far away, I couldn't appreciate how special this filigreed bronze bicycle is.

Metal filigree chosen to look like John Wayne's pistol on every detail

Metal filigree chosen to look like John Wayne's rifle on every detail

Metal filigree chosen to look like John Wayne's pistol on the bicycle handlebars

Metal filigree chosen to look like John Wayne's rifle on the bicycle handlebars

Bronze detail on the bicycle frame

Bronze detail on the bicycle frame

This bike could really use some Walnut Studiolo leather bar wraps to complete it.

This bike could really use some Walnut Studiolo leather bar wraps to complete it.

Leave a comment (all fields required)

Comments will be approved before showing up.