Every tooled line on a piece of leather started as a bar of steel — forged, filed, and driven into damp hide with a maul. These are the tools that put the pattern in the leather, and one of them signs my name.
A stamp for every job
Most of what you see here are working stamps: bevelers that cut the shadow line, backgrounders that knock down the area around a design, seeders and camouflage tools that fill a border with texture. A single basketweave face might take a thousand strikes — each one landed by hand, and by eye.
Forged, not bought
The best stamps aren't cast; they are hand-forged, and the mark they leave has a life that machine-cut tools never do. Some of mine are older than I am — passed down, or traded for. Steel like that only gets better with use.
The one that signs the work
Near the front sits a maker's stamp. It goes on the back of every finished piece. It is how you know a thing came off this bench and not another.
A pattern is just a stamp, struck true, a thousand times over.
The pattern on your piece is chosen for you, and struck by hand, one mark at a time. That is why no two ever match.
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