C.L. Whiting
Leaf Leather
Each leaf represents a unique stamp created by the artist and tooled into the leather itself, creating the beautiful leaf designs you see.
The Leaf Leather collection is a tactile and visual experience.
No two pieces are exactly alike! Each leaf represents a unique stamp created by the artist and tooled into the leather itself, creating the beautiful leaf designs you see.
The story began in upstate New York over 20 years ago where C.L. Whiting developed a love for nature, and a passion for detail. While working part time at a small leather shop and studying art at a New York university the opportunity arose for C.L. Whiting to become an apprentice under an Italian engraver who was retiring and desired to pass along his technique for making fine detailed tools to someone who would appreciated it.
By combining the artistic art forms learned in school, along with those specialized engraving skills gained through this apprenticeship, C.L. Whiting discovered the ability to produce tools in the shape of leaves with uncanny microscopic detail. C.L. Whiting withdrew from the university and began spending years developing over 5,000 tools in different leaf patterns using nature as the model. Only with the utmost quality and personal attention, will the products designed and produced by C.L. Whiting be sent to you.
Like an artist painting a picture, an entire hide is tooled creating an original, one-of-a-kind work of art. With a great respect for nature and acquired knowledge of leather work, C.L. Whiting has personally trained several skilled craftspeople to help with the cutting, sewing, and finishing touches. This enables C.L. Whiting to create more of the beautiful hand tooled hides which are then made into finely detailed, meticulously finished leather goods.
Leaf Leather
Each leaf represents a unique stamp created by the artist and tooled into the leather itself, creating the beautiful leaf designs you see.
The Leaf Leather collection is a tactile and visual experience.
No two pieces are exactly alike! Each leaf represents a unique stamp created by the artist and tooled into the leather itself, creating the beautiful leaf designs you see.
The story began in upstate New York over 20 years ago where C.L. Whiting developed a love for nature, and a passion for detail. While working part time at a small leather shop and studying art at a New York university the opportunity arose for C.L. Whiting to become an apprentice under an Italian engraver who was retiring and desired to pass along his technique for making fine detailed tools to someone who would appreciated it.
By combining the artistic art forms learned in school, along with those specialized engraving skills gained through this apprenticeship, C.L. Whiting discovered the ability to produce tools in the shape of leaves with uncanny microscopic detail. C.L. Whiting withdrew from the university and began spending years developing over 5,000 tools in different leaf patterns using nature as the model. Only with the utmost quality and personal attention, will the products designed and produced by C.L. Whiting be sent to you.
Like an artist painting a picture, an entire hide is tooled creating an original, one-of-a-kind work of art. With a great respect for nature and acquired knowledge of leather work, C.L. Whiting has personally trained several skilled craftspeople to help with the cutting, sewing, and finishing touches. This enables C.L. Whiting to create more of the beautiful hand tooled hides which are then made into finely detailed, meticulously finished leather goods.
