About Us

About Us and why we do what we do…

Simon Sinek said – find your Why and you will live happily ever after…or something like that 😉

Well, for me this might come true, that’s at least what I am hoping for!
Professionally I have been working within management for the vastest part of my life…my day job you could say...

But everybody needs a hobby, so in 2016 I picked up leathercraft, out of the desperate need for proper dog collars for big dogs. Our family includes two Rhodesian Ridgebacks, and the market was simply not offering what I would like to dress them in…

So it began, the search for tools and leather to use, the learning how to work with leather, trying, failing, succeeding … I knew nothing about tools nor leathers, but it did not take long until I was entirely captivated by this versatile material…

And I wasn’t half bad at it neither, which was another surprise. Normally, I wasn’t even able to use a simple sewing machine, nor sew something else then a button back in its place. But with leather, it seemed my two left thumbs left the room.

Fun fact- the only one not surprised was my mum, turns out my great grandfather and his father were rather busy shoemakers back in the days…

Needless to say, my spare time was spent on leathercraft, and an ample amount of that time used to search for leathers, tools and supplies from around the world. I found it incredibly difficult to find what I was looking for, and I usually had to buy way too much of one single type of leather, most often from abroad, just to be able to try it.

And let’s be honest – Leathercraft is not a cheap hobby, leather is an expensive material, the right supplies are not discounted either, and a great leather tool comes with its appropriate price.

Even though this seems to be accepted as normal within the community of leathercrafters, I was inspired to do something about this. It’s a waste of a perfect hide, to stay forever on a shelf in a leather workshop, just because we only needed a quarter of it. Also, the time spent on finding the right leathers, keeps us away from actually working with a project.

So, I started to participate in fairs, creating relationships with tanneries within Europe, and toolmakers around the world – firstly mainly for my own work, but with time I got the idea that I could assemble a collection of leathers and tools I believed in, and offer these to my fellow leathercrafters.

And now, here we are! Quite scary and exciting I must admit, but I cannot wait to see if I possibly could succeed with making some leathercrafters life easier …