Leather Insights: Navigating Patina, Styles, and Traditional Craftsmanship

A ColsenKeane Blog.

The ColsenKeane Sample Sale: A Little Game of Chicken

Once a year, we open the studio floor. Not for tours. Not for classes. For one of the most anticipated events in the ColsenKeane calendar: the Sample Sale. If you...

Meet Our Vintage Buckle Collection

Someone once told us we should have a selection of fun buckles. We heard you. So we went digging. And now we've got something a little unexpected living in the...

Learn to Work with Leather: Inside the ColsenKeane Leather Crafting Residency

Learn to Work with Leather: If you've ever watched a skilled craftsperson stitch a leather bag by hand and thought, I want to learn how to do that - well,...

What to Pack When You're Packing for Everything: A College Send-Off Reading List (for Your Bag)

There's a particular kind of nervous-excited that comes with the weeks before college move-in. You're folding shirts you've never worn into a new closet, learning the name of a roommate...

The Handcrafted Hour: What Corporate Gifting Should Actually Feel Like

There is a graveyard in every office in America. It lives in the back of desk drawers and the corners of supply closets. It is populated by branded stress balls,...

From a Backyard Shed to the Hands of Hollywood: The ColsenKeane Story

There's a version of this story that sounds too good to be true. A guy in Charlotte, North Carolina, starts cutting leather in a backyard shed. Fourteen years later, a...

We Made Our Own Journals. Here's Why.

We Made Our Own Journals. Here's Why. For a while now, we have been pairing our handcrafted leather notebooks with Moleskine & Field notes inserts. It made sense at the...

Built for the Coca-Cola 600

Every year, Charlotte hosts one of NASCAR's most legendary races. This year, we got to be a small part of it. We produced a custom run of full-grain leather keychains...