From Devon with Love
Perhaps you know that one of our favourite and very special leathers we use here at Tanner Bates is our...
Waste not want not
Provenance really matters to us. Our leather is tanned in the old fashioned way, in small family run tanneries. It...
The Tanner Bates Devon Diaries
We are lucky enough to live in one of England’s most beautiful counties. We are surrounded by nature and we...
The Scrapbook Edition
Something that is incredibly important to us here at Tanner Bates is minimising waste. We are very privileged to work...
Oak Bark Tanned Leather From J & F J Baker, Colyton
Scars, blemishes, irregular dyeing, parallel crease lines, surface white tallow are all natural and a part of the character of...
Repurposed leather and solid brass buckles: Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast – the marriage of our vintage narly hides from the depths of Devon with Milanese city...
Handmade Leather tote bag
I made this simple bag as part of a collaboration we are doing with our partners Leather School® and Craft...
Meet Ella
Ella joined our small team of makers 6 months ago as an apprentice. After months of very mundane and repetitive tasks...
Welcome to the Vienna Leather Bag
When Caroline came to us with an idea for a bespoke bag so that she could travel in style to...
The magic of the leather tannery.
We were blown away by our experience at the tannery with Andrew, our simplified version of the process is to...
Thoughts On Leather Use
We were thrilled to have been mentioned in a recent article written for the Observer Magazine by Lucy Siegle about the morality and...
Earn your Leather Patina
The texture and feel of well-used and loved leather is achieved over time. Natural leather starts of a little stiff.
