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...

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...

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...

The Bag With No Zipper: A Feature, Not an Oversight

At some point, you will notice that a lot of ColsenKeane bags don't have zippers. No satisfying zip-zip at the top. No little pull tab. No teeth to tug on....

What Happens When You Bring Real Craft to a Corporate Conference

When ColsenKeane Became the Most Talked-About Booth at ABA There's a version of corporate gifting that lives entirely in an inbox — a bulk order, a logo slapped on something...