Making
Leatherwork
An edge burnished well is a small proof that you stayed.
It sits with bookbinding, saddlery’s history, and any repair culture that prefers mend to replace.
The tools are few. The hours are in the edges.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside leatherwork reads “an edge you stayed with.” It tends to meet bookbinding, furniture repair, and restoration.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford. Read it beside leatherwork: A case for work that pushes back, written by someone who left a desk for a bench.