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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

Leather handles in 8 styles, 4 leather colors, and 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

A white kitchen drawer under a gray countertop that has a natural tan colored leather handle with nickel hardware and an engraved label that says 'Silverware'

Add a label to handles and pulls for superior organization

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 roll of natural leather on a white background

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

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

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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.

Customer Service

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

2021 Year in Review: Grounded

We have a lot to celebrate, both big and small, from 2021. This is our annual year in review.

January 05, 2022
4 min read

A gift wrapped box held by a person on a black background, wrapped in kraft paper with a black line drawing and a white paper bow, all recycle and even compostable

How We Gift Wrap

Learn more about our gift wrap options and gift wrapping service on our website. We offer recycled and re-usable gift wrap options.

November 24, 2021
1 min read

Photo Essay: How We Make Things

In this photo essay, we explain the basic steps of how we make things and ship them to you.

November 10, 2021
5 min read

#AskWalnut - We Answer Your Questions on Video

Ask us anything! We will upload a video answering your questions to Vimeo and/or YouTube and link it via social media and our website.

August 30, 2021
1 min read

Etsy Prices Increase - Our Website Stays the Same

We regret to announce that we have raised prices on our Etsy webstore -- but not on our website. In this post, we'll discuss: exactly what is happening with Etsy fees, the complications of increasing material costs, and the moral quandaries in Etsy's rapidly changing marketing policies.

August 26, 2021
5 min read

Behind the Scenes: The Making of the Jim Golden Art Print

We worked with Jim Golden Studio to make an art print capturing the growth of our business over four years in 2012. Here was the process.

August 24, 2021
2 min read

We Moved Our Videos to Vimeo

We've moved all our videos to Vimeo. This is why, and what it means.

July 13, 2021
2 min read

Free Design Advice from Walnut Studiolo

We're offering free design advice and a photo archive search on our leather products, to help you with your home projects and bicycles.

July 13, 2021
2 min read

Caveat Emptor: Facebook Fakes and Scams Hit Walnut Studiolo

We're doing the best we can to maintain the integrity of our name, and protect the copyright of our photographers. If it wasn't for our customers looking our for us and alerting us to the scam, it could be duping someone else today.

June 13, 2021
2 min read

The Country Files: Fawn Nursery at Walnut Studiolo

It was with delight that we became host in June 2021 to two different mama does and their adorable fawns. One doe had one fawn and another doe had two fawns, and they took turns noshing on the freshly cut grass by our workshop each morning. Enjoy the photos!