Leather jackets, bags, boots and small goods made to order in our own workshop. Shipping to the UK and the USA.
ForgeHide
How we cut, skive and stitch every ForgeHide piece — the bench, the machines and the people who make it.
Photograph the actual bench, the patterns on the wall and the machines. This page is the one thing no reseller on these search results can copy, so it carries real pictures and real names, or it carries nothing.
Walk the hide from grading to boxing: grade, cut, skive, stitch, finish. State the machine, the stitch count and the thread. Numbers you can check beat adjectives every time.
Name the makers and say how long they have been at the bench. Replace this paragraph once you have their permission.
We buy whole hides, not panels, and grade them ourselves for scars and stretch.
Every size is a separate pattern. Made-to-measure gets a pattern cut from your own eight measurements.
Edges are skived to 0.4 mm so seams sit flat instead of bulking.
Post-bed machine, 8 stitches per inch, bonded nylon thread. Stress points bar-tacked.
Edges burnished, hardware set, then a final grade before it is boxed.