<p>A collection of leather working tools including about 100 punches Freeman uses most often. All total he has more than 300 punches. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p> <p>Stan Freeman adds dye to a ...

Zhang Renbing poses with his handmade leather products at his studio in Heze, East China's Shandong Province on February 17. Photo: IC Zhang's eldest son shows off one of his father's bags shaped like ...

Michael Burke of Union began making leather products in his basement as a hobby 12 years ago. Burke, now 42, and an engineer by trade, had been diagnosed with hypertension. He found that working with ...

In a kiosk at Massy Mega Supermarket in Turkeyen, Roy Cummings sits surrounded by the unmistakable scent of cured leather, a smell that for him, carries the weight of five decades of history. To many ...

Steve Doudaklian is a fourth-generation craftsman, a leather repair artist who has seen it all -- an array of shoes that would make Imelda Marcos jealous, motorcycle jackets, old steamer trunks and a ...

In a repurposed studio tucked into a 1920s farmhouse atop Maury Island, William Cleaver, aka Wild Bill, has been making unique leather pieces for more than 20 years. His work has included belts, ...