Leather Insights: Navigating Patina, Styles, and Traditional Craftsmanship
A ColsenKeane Blog.
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...
The Handcrafted Hour: What Corporate Gifting Should Actually Feel Like
There is a graveyard in every office in America. It lives in the back of desk drawers and the corners of supply closets. It is populated by branded stress balls,...
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...
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....
Patina on
Crazy Horse
This backpack has been used for years. This photo captures how our cowhide, Crazy Horse, shows wear and begins to soften its shape with use.
