Leatherworking Quotes

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

You should see me work my magic in leather" Ranger

Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.

I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.

My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.

Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.

We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.

Shoemakers and tanners form a symbiotic relationship out of necessity. One provides the leather while the other whips it into a glorious creation.

An assembly of tailors and blacksmiths....

I've been making shoes my whole life.

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.