The Leather, Shoe and Hide Journal

‘Chrome tanning’ she said, when we got to talk about the magazine Lær, Sko og Skinn, ‘ you must write about chrome tanning, it pollute rivers and kill the fish’. ‘Yes, yes, I replied, it can probably be right, but I do not run a protest magazin’.  And the thought that many potential reader and […]

“To draw” it  is said “is to see”. Ie; the world around oneself  through the pencil strokes. You study a item or what it may be on that way. And leather crafters/artists reflects well sometimes  over about to draw. At least when you stay there and want to transfer a motive or pattern on leather […]

It happen a little here and a little there – global – concerning leather craft and art – and it must be a great result one day of it all,…but….probably if it’s wanted and something is done for it. What is important to do must each make up his own mind about. I believe one […]

“I never knew Jim Manning from elsewhere than the book “Leather” by Willcox and Manning. And I have had the book with me in my workshop for 35 years, soon. And it feels sometimes like it’s a part of it all. And I belive I’m not alone about it”                                                                      red Jim Manning in momento. Since […]

This article build on a article in The Euro*pean Leather, Shoe and Hide, Nr. 2, 2012. It was a tendensy among some leathercrafters in Europe in the years of 1990’s by the union Leder-Gilde E.V. and members of the guild to make a kind of leather art and craft shows. The arrangement in the years […]

This article build on a article from the paperversion of The Euro*pean, Leather, Shoe and Hide, Nr.1-2012. It happen perhaps to all of us that we sometimes  turns into the statement about leather as a material “as once have been alive”. As it should be something unic about it or particular for leather and leather […]

(This article build on a article in the paperversion of  The Euro*pean Leather, Shoe and Hide, Nr.2, 2011). Anyone else than the undersigner as think it looks like the world whent down (under) and out this year?. A year as promised so much conserning leathercraft!. Perhaps is’t only the distance as the undersigner see it […]

This article have it’s background in a campaing called Leather Naturally Campaing. Information about it is to find on Internett; www.Leather Naturally Campaing org. The campaing as is a big industry initiativ is leaded of the british proffesor Mike Redwood. It’s in the starting point a important campaing in a time with the wind of […]