Highly diversified, big city leather company ‘sources the world’ for finest tanned leathers, suede and nubuck  

By Lynn Ascrizzi 

Global Leathers, a wholesale/retail distributor based at West 35th Street, New York, New York, carries a richly diverse array Read more

A Skater’s Dream 

by Gene Fowler 

Figure skating legend Brian Boitano, who won a gold medal at the 1988 Olympics, still has the first pair of skates he got at the age of nine. Why hang on to Read more

Y-Knot Lace is built on kangaroo leather’s tensile strength 

By Lynn Ascrizzi 

Y-Knot Lace is a small business owned and operated by Barb Sorenson, in Kalispell, Montana. She runs the enterprise singlehandedly from the home she shares with her husband, JR Sorenson, a long-haul truck driver. There, in an office space set up in a spare room, she sells her company’s main product — Read more

By Nick Pernokas 

Sometimes, no matter how hard we plan and pursue our chosen course, fate steps in to change our path. In the case of George Cubic, this persistent course correction created a talented craftsman. 

George was born in Eastern Europe in 1956. His father, Viktor, immigrated with his family to the United States Read more

Maverick Matt Durbin

by Gene Fowler 

“I don’t like things that look all cookie-cutter,” says Matt Durbin, when asked how he got interested in working with leather. “I always hated it when somebody had on the same clothes I did. Read more