ForgeHide Leather · United Kingdom & USA
Cut, stitched and finished by us.
We buy the hide, choose the thickness and make the pattern. Every jacket, bag, boot, wallet, glove and belt on this site is made to order at our own bench — not bought in and relabelled.
New for autumn
Suede, in every window again.
Brown, tan, green and navy — cut from 0.9 mm goat suede, unlined, so it moves the way suede should. The whole category is back and we make all of it.
Season
Winter leather, already cut.
Shearling collars, quilted linings and 1.2 mm cowhide. UK demand for leather jackets climbs through November. Ours are on the rail now.
Made to measure · only a workshop can offer this
Eight measurements. One pattern.
Send us your numbers and we cut a pattern from scratch — sleeve, shoulder, chest, waist and drop, to your body rather than to a size chart. Ten to fourteen days on the bench.
We cut and stitch it. No third-party factory between the hide and you.
Nothing sits in a warehouse. Your piece is cut after you buy it.
Over £120. Duties shown up front for US orders.
Zips, linings and seams, for as long as you own it.
Six things we make
The collections
Every collection below is a page in its own right, targeting one search intent — no two overlap.
Our workshop
The hide arrives whole. It leaves as a jacket.
We buy whole hides and grade them ourselves. One bench, one pattern per size, eight stitches to the inch. Nothing here was bought in and relabelled.
Inside the workshop →This season
Suede, and a shearling collar
Those are the two shapes the autumn and winter 2026 trend reporting named first, and both are cut on our own bench. Eight pieces from the catalogue, each one made to order.
How a piece is made
Five steps, one bench
We cover leather because we cut, skive, stitch and finish it every day. First-hand manufacturing experience is the one thing the sites currently ranking cannot copy: every page can state what we did, on which hide, at what thickness, and why.
Choose the hide
We buy whole hides, not panels, and grade them ourselves for scars and stretch.
Cut the pattern
Every size is a separate pattern. Made-to-measure gets a pattern cut from your own eight measurements.
Skive and prepare
Edges are skived to 0.4 mm so seams sit flat instead of bulking.
Stitch
Post-bed machine, 8 stitches per inch, bonded nylon thread. Stress points bar-tacked.
Finish
Edges burnished, hardware set, then a final grade before it is boxed.
Season
Winter leather, live now.
UK searches for “leather jacket” were already climbing at index 66 on 23 August and peak around 23 November. The shearling, lined biker and trench pieces are cut and ready.
Shop winter jacketsThe Leather Guide
Written by the people who cut it
Numbers we measured on our own bench — not rewritten from someone else’s blog.
Made to measure
Send us eight measurements.
We cut the pattern from scratch. Only a workshop can offer this — a reseller cannot.
Start made to measure