Re-imagining not recreating

As market leaders with over thirty years of excellence Leather Craft Made in the Shade remains very much a family run business. Husband and wife team Tony (the founder) & Marcia, both formally trained artists, produce a cross-dyed and burnished range of hand tooled, original designs that continue to redefine leather craft.

Urban contemporary styling

Whether you buy a belt, cuff, time cuff (watch), hair piece or guitar strap the process is always the same.  “We use only the finest grade leather, chosen by ourselves, from local, long established tanneries; we cut, design, hand-tool, color, dye and finish each item as individual art pieces”. Whether working in a Retrospective style designed to evoke the mood of the sixties & seventies, or a cool Urban Contemporary Street Style, all items are hand crafted solely by us to our own designs. From the definitive 70’s belt, the ‘Urban Cowboy’ a classic icon of seventies styling to the more contemporary ‘Night Tripper’ attention to detail has always been our guarantee.

As we consider our work art pieces no two items are exactly the same; even those of the same design will differ slightly in application and color. Our Belts and Cuffs are beautifully crafted, individual, unique and collectable items.”