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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

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

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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.

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The Blog

Expanding our monogramming options

You can personalize many of Walnut Studiolo's products with initials or a short message - and now we've expanded our Monogramming ProgramÂ to give you more options for your personal messages.Â

May 02, 2018
1 min read

Why Handmade Matters

Here at Walnut Studiolo, we are dedicated to lasting quality - which can only come from a thoughtful hands-on process. Here's why it matters.

November 13, 2017
4 min read

FAQ: Preventing theft of your bicycle accessories

Thieves suck! Here are our customers' ideas to prevent and deter theft of their Walnut Studiolo bicycle accessories.

August 17, 2017
2 min read

Customer Tips for Braiding Bullwhip Leather Bar Wraps

Customer Sandi in Brooklyn, NY shared a few great tips for installing the Bullwhip Leather Bar Wraps on her bicycle - and a few creative new ideas as well.

February 24, 2017
2 min read

Made in America

June 02, 2016
2 min read

FAQ: Crafted by Hand or Machine Made?

Here are some tips for differentiating between hand-crafted, bench-made, and machine-made leather goods.

December 06, 2015
5 min read

A customer's bicycle at a metro station with honey leather bicycle frame wraps on his top tube protector, seat tube protector, down tube protector, and chainstay guard, using leather coil wraps

Leather Top Tube Protectors and Chainstay Guards

Leather is a great way to protect a bike's finish from scratches and dings. In this post, we talk about why, where, and how to wrap your bicycle frame with a protective and all-weather leather wrap.