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Introducing the 2025 Gratitude Calendar
Introducing our first calendar, the 2025 Gratitude Calendar, and a special offer for the 2024 holidays!
Introducing “Version 2” Double 12 Travel Domino Playing Cards
Travel Mexican Train for lefties, too! We redesigned our popular Double 12 Travel Domino Playing Cards with an adaptation for left-handed folks, legibility improvements, and more new features. Read on to learn more about the redesign: what, why, and how!
Wrap Gifts with a Bandana (The Japanese Art of Furoshiki)
In this post, we introduce furoshiki, the Japanese art of knotting and folding cloth into protective wrappings and bags. It’s not only beautiful, it’s a more sustainable way to present gifts than disposable paper – and it can be done with something we probably all have in our houses, the mighty bandana!
Holiday Shipping Deadlines 2024
Need it before December 25? Check our 2024 last ORDER-BY dates below to ensure your gifts arrive in time for the holidays!
The Games They Carried: The History of Soldier Pocket Games
We explore the history of soldier pocket games - what games they played and what they looked like - and how it inspired modern pocket game designs. A pocket-sized game was kept in most soldier’s packs, good for morale. But games also became a part of the war effort, used for spycraft, training and communications. And the war evolved and innovated our favorite games.
Walnut Offers Referral Discounts and Affiliate Commissions
Creators, influencers, and fans can now earn discounts and even money on referrals to Walnut Studiolo! In this post, we explain what this means, and why we're doing it.
New Product! Introducing Travel Backgammon
New product announcement! Introducing a creative new classic game design from Walnut Studiolo for travel: folding leather backgammon board with all the accessories: dice, doubling cube, and pegs for secure play.
How to Play Backgammon: Simplified Rules of Play
These are our simplified rules of play for learning backgammon, an ancient board game that still brings a lot of modern fun, particularly with the addition of the American doubling cube!
How to Restore Shine to Brass Parts on Leather
Brass and leather are two natural materials that go together beautifully, and even a little tarnish is nothing to worry about. If you wish, you can return brass to its original natural shine easily and quickly with a cleaning product like Brasso.
How to Wrap a Handrail in Leather with Walnut's Oswego Kit
How to wrap infinitely long lengths of rail, handle, or bar (like a bannister, handrail, stairway railing) in American veg-tan using the Oswego Leather Wrap Kit.
How We Use Up-Cycled Packaging with Care
In this post, we share how we live our sustainability values and impress customers with our upcycled packaging program!
Artisans Cooperative: An ACTUALLY Handmade Marketplace
Announcing the Grand Opening of Artisans Co-op, a BETTER e-commerce marketplace for ACTUALLY Handmade Goods. Walnut Studiolo is proud to list our authentic handmade goods on the Artisans Cooperative marketplace because:
Holiday Shipping Deadlines 2023
Need it before December 25? Check our 2023 last order dates below to ensure your gifts arrive in time for the holidays!
Good Reasons to Shop Online Early for the Holidays in 2023
The best deal of the year has begun! 6 good reasons to shop early with Walnut this year for the holidays: #1: Early, Season-Long, Transparent Holiday Promotions. #2...
Leather Wrap Calculator Tool Estimates You How Much Leather You Need to Wrap a Bar
Estimate how many Oswego Leather Wrap kits you need to cover just about any bar: indoors or outdoors. Our calculator tool was made by a PhD in mathematics!
Walnut Studiolo Fundraiser for "Artisans Cooperative"
Walnut Studiolo supports great causes. Learn about the fundraiser we held for Artisans Cooperative, a member-owned marketplace designed to help artists and artisans of all kinds.
How to DIY Cut and Finish a Leather Edge Without Any Special Tools: Bevel, Dye, Burnish
A tutorial on how to cut, bevel, dye, and burnish leather edges using easily available tools found at home.
Four Ways to Install the Hawthorne Leather Handle
In this post, we explore the versatility and optionality of the Hawthorne leather handle with lots of customer photos, including how to install the Hawthorne leather pull "flat" as a handle with two points of contact with the surface.
Walnut Studiolo Fundraiser for Ukraine
A donor report on our small and successful fundraiser for Ukraine through a leather sunflower and tip jar, and a list of trusted organizations for donations and support to Ukrainians.
How to Play Dice: Yacht / Yatzy Rules of Play
Simplified game rules and a free printable scoresheet for the popular 5-dice game. Yacht is the old school version of the trademarked dice game Yahtzee.
How to Play Dice: Farkle / Ten Thousand Rules of Play
Free game rules and printable scoring "crib sheet" for the popular dice game Farkle / Ten Thousand (also known as Farkel, Hot Dice, 1000/5000/10000, Cosmic Wimpout, Greed, Squelch, Zilch, or Zonk)
Introducing Double 12 Travel Domino Playing Cards ("Mexican Train") - A Creative New Product from Walnut Studiolo
New product announcement! Introducing our travel-sized version of Double 12 (D12) dominoes - in playing cards! With "Mexican Train" accessories
How to Play Cribbage with 3-4 Players on 2 Tracks
Our best tips for playing cribbage with with 3 or 4 players -- even on a 2-track board! How many cards to deal, and our best customer tips on how to share 2 tracks for 3 players.
History of the "Hold Fast" Knuckle Tattoo
Our tough-looking Bare Knuckle leather bicycle grips feature a friend's "Hold Fast" tattooed on his knuckles: learn the history behind that iconic tattoo from our local paper, and maritime museum.
