Leather Insights: Navigating Patina, Styles, and Traditional Craftsman

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...

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...

Charlotte Leather Crafting with ColsenKeane

Charlotte Is Becoming a Leather Town. We Have Some Thoughts About That. If you've been paying attention to Charlotte's maker scene lately, you may have noticed something quietly stitching itself...

Your Leather Gets Better in Summer. Read to find out how!

There's a version of summer that's hard on everything. Your car seats crack, your sneakers scuff, your linen wrinkles before you've even left the house. But your full-grain leather? It's...

Debossed, Engraved, Embossed, Monogrammed: What's the Difference?

If you've ever gone to personalize a leather good and found yourself staring down a dropdown menu of options you can't quite define, you're not alone. These terms get used...

So You Want to Learn Leathercraft? Here's How to Do It the Right Way.

So You Want to Learn Leathercraft? Here's How to Do It the Right Way. There's something deeply satisfying about making something with your hands. Not assembling something. Not unboxing something....