How to Clean Leather the Way Conservators Do, Step by Step
Smithsonian conservators clean a 250-year-old gunboat one square foot an hour. The same least-intervention order works on a leather briefcase, in six steps.
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Walsall Still Makes Saddles: Profile of a Family Firm
A profile of Walsall saddlery family firm Heritage Bespoke Saddlery, set against the Walsall Leather Museum’s 2026 move and the town’s bridle trade.
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The Presidential Desk Set Made Behind Santa Croce
How a Florence workshop founded in 1950 for war orphans came to make the presidential desk set, and where the sources agree and disagree.
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Pierre Laborde Makes Bags, and New York Is Lining Up
A New York one-maker bag studio can make about 200 bags a week and reportedly faces demand near 1,500. A look at the waitlist math.
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Frank Clegg Leatherworks: Fifty Years of Briefcases From a Fall River Mill
A sourced profile of Frank Clegg Leatherworks, the Fall River, Massachusetts briefcase maker: what the company says about itself, what the press has verified, and what remains open.
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The Culper Ring’s Real Problem Was Carrying Paper
Setauket’s Culper Ring moved intelligence by hand across Long Island Sound. The chain, a 1779 letter, and the problem of carrying paper.
