Leather Insights: Navigating Patina, Styles, and Traditional Craftsmanship

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Leather in the Heat

I couldn't help but wonder. When it's ninety four degrees in Charlotte and the sidewalk feels personally offended by your existence, what happens to the bag on your shoulder? Here's...

One Belt, Made Once; Your Honorary Leathersmith Badge

One Belt, Made Once I've always believed the things we choose to own say more about us than the things we chase. But here's a question I couldn't help but...

The ColsenKeane Sample Sale: A Little Game of Chicken

Once a year, we open the studio floor. Not for tours. Not for classes. For one of the most anticipated events in the ColsenKeane calendar: the Sample Sale. If you...

Meet Our Vintage Buckle Collection

Someone once told us we should have a selection of fun buckles. We heard you. So we went digging. And now we've got something a little unexpected living in the...

Learn to Work with Leather: Inside the ColsenKeane Leather Crafting Residency

Learn to Work with Leather: If you've ever watched a skilled craftsperson stitch a leather bag by hand and thought, I want to learn how to do that - well,...

What to Pack When You're Packing for Everything: A College Send-Off Reading List (for Your Bag)

There's a particular kind of nervous-excited that comes with the weeks before college move-in. You're folding shirts you've never worn into a new closet, learning the name of a roommate...

From a Backyard Shed to the Hands of Hollywood: The ColsenKeane Story

There's a version of this story that sounds too good to be true. A guy in Charlotte, North Carolina, starts cutting leather in a backyard shed. Fourteen years later, a...

We Made Our Own Journals. Here's Why.

We Made Our Own Journals. Here's Why. For a while now, we have been pairing our handcrafted leather notebooks with Moleskine & Field notes inserts. It made sense at the...