Leather Insights: Navigating Patina, Styles, and Traditional Craftsmanship

A ColsenKeane Blog.

Meet Our Vintage Buckle Collection

Someone once told us we should have a selection of fun buckles. We heard you. We're thrilled to introduce something a little different to the ColsenKeane studio: a curated collection...

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...

Built for the Coca-Cola 600

Every year, Charlotte hosts one of NASCAR's most legendary races. This year, we got to be a small part of it. We produced a custom run of full-grain leather keychains...

The Pursuit of Average

I want to say this plainly. The system isn't rooting for you to be extraordinary. It's built for average. It markets to average. It assumes you'll eat what everyone else...

When You've Seen It All, Here's What Still Surprises People

There's a certain look that happens when you've been an event planner for more than a few years. Someone pitches you a "unique" corporate gift and your eyes start doing...