February 2012
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Knicks, work in progress →
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January 2012
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STEVE WEATHERFORD GOES NUTS!
Favorite moment of last night’s game when the Giants made the Motherf**king Superbowl.
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Wm. Barbour and Sons - Linen Thread
This is the first in an in-depth series on goods and suppliers common in the leather working industry. The series will cover the different components that can be used in the goods of the many independent leather goods makers that have sprung up.
Use and Qualities of Barbour Thread
When hand-stitching leather, the quality of the thread holding together the pieces of leather of your...
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Burning the sausages does not make you a bad cook.
It just means that, on this occasion, you burned the sausages.
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Independent Crafters Series (#1)
I have been searching for independent crafters online for inspiration for my own leather crafting projects. I have bookmarked many sites from crafters around the world. As an ongoing series, l will write a short profile of these crafters on their inspirations, and choose my favorite product that they currently have in production.
Strawfoot Handmade - Santa Cruz, CA (USA)
WAXED CANVAS...
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Don Carney Animal Prints
If the 8x10’s were still available, $80 would be going to Mr. Carney and I’d be learning how to frame the 4 prints for my wall in my apartment.
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Happy 2012!
“…all those things we simply lose, or lose and then, on finding, find without spark. As if to say we are as much about our deletions as our accumulations.”
-Sven Birkerts, The Other Walk (Lighter)
May your 2012 be filled with accumulations and deletions that make you happier, and the world a better place.
December 2011
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O'Mast
O’Mast is a beautiful movie that sums up a lot about what I’ve been thinking about the last year. It’s about Neopolitan tailors, craftsmen who have done tailoring since they were 10. They apprenticed in pretty awful conditions and today have risen to be master tailors, creating suits that men wished they had. As the film’s director, Gianluca Migliarotti said in the...
November 2011
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October 2011
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Makes me want a Beaufort that much more.
free-man:
A Conversation about Barbour
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If there’s one thing fashion math has taught us, is that to get a proper return...
– Beyond Fabric