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Process
how a piece is made
Each piece starts with a length of vegetable-tanned or oil-tanned leather. Edges are beveled, burnished, and slicked with beeswax until they hold a sheen.
Hardware — rivets, D-rings, chain links — is sourced raw in steel metal alloy or brass. Every piece is then heated with a small propane torch. The metal moves through a predictable spectrum of color as it climbs in temperature: pale straw, then bronze, plum, peacock, steel blue, gunmetal. The torch is pulled when the color is right.
Pieces are assembled with either stainless steel, metal alloy, or copper rivets where a clean profile matters most. Nothing is sent out for finishing.
Custom pigments created for painted and stained leather pieces.
The 2-to-7 spectrum
Color comes from a thin oxide layer that grows as steel is heated. It is permanent, but impossible to repeat exactly — every torched piece sits slightly differently in the band.
Why every piece is different
Because the torch is held by hand and the steel is never the same alloy twice, no two pieces land in the same place on the spectrum. The serial number is how a piece is tracked. The heat band is how it is identified.
Signature finishes
Two finishes appear on select pieces, layered onto the leather before assembly. They are flagged on the relevant product pages.
Pigments are Guerra Paint & Pigment Corp, sourced in Maspeth, NY.
Water-based pearlescent glass particles mixed into the top layer of leather finish. Reads as a sparkly, twinkly surface that catches light from any angle.
Fine powdery holographic pigment mixed into the leather finish. Throws a purple sheen that shifts with the viewing angle.
Fine holographic flake pigment, layered on top of the leather finish. Scatters spectrum light in tiny points, like reading a disco ball up close.