Handmade Leather Goods
This is the finished work: pieces that leave the workshop ready to wear, carry or hang on a wall.
Everything is cut, tooled, dyed and stitched by hand in vegetable-tanned leather. No machine stitching, no glued shortcuts, no split leather pretending to be full grain. Some pieces come out of games and films I care about, others are simply objects I wanted to exist.
If none of it is quite what you're after, most of these started as commissions. Yours can too.
How these are made
Vegetable-tanned leather, sourced in Europe. It ages, it darkens, it takes a patina, which is the whole point.
Hand-stitched with the saddle stitch, two needles, one thread. Slower than a machine and considerably stronger: if one stitch fails, the seam holds.
Hand-dyed and finished, which means small variations between pieces. That's not a defect, it's what separates this from a factory item.
Solid hardware, brass or stainless steel, never plated zinc.
If you would rather build it yourself, start with the printable patterns. For blades, see the hand forged knives.