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Bicycle Accessories

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!

Games

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!

Interiors

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

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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

A man in a tweed sweater is pulling a bottle of Oban scotch whisky out of a handcrafted leather tube with an attached wood lid at sunset on the beach

Gifts

A woman wearing fashionably ripped jean shorts is carrying a leather and wood six-pack of beer on a fall day in the park

Drinkware

A woman in an orange shirt and black cardigan is pulling a set of architectural plans out of a hand-stitched leather storage tube in front of a brick wall

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the Original Travel Cribbage Board, a folding leather game board, folded in half with the leather stamped, E hearts N with custom monogram love initials

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Tying off the sew-on bicycle city grips

Please explain how you tighten or lock the the initial stitch in the city grips.  It seems in the YouTube instructional video the the first stitch still has thread hanging off by the time you finished with the surgeon's knot.  Thanks, Donald
Image In the video, I use one needle, and one length of thread. This requires a knot to be tied at each end, but to make sure to pull the thread down tight, first I stitch the thread all the way through, leaving one end slack. Then I go through it again, pulling tightly to cinch the leather together, before tying any knots. At this point the thread it tight and there is no knot on either side; and the thread doesn't become loose.
Then I tie a knot at one end, and and then the same knot at the other end, both times pull the tail through the underside of a stitch or two before cutting the end off.
There is enough friction between the thick sail-maker's thread and the leather so the tucked-in tail threads don't slip loose.

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