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A New World Business in an Old-World Trade  

By B. Crawford 

What would you do if someone handed you a dead skunk? If you were Colin Wheeler at The Nugget Company, you would shrug your shoulders and give it a look. A dead skunk in the middle Read more

Nothing Replaces Leather: A Visit to Mexico’s Teneria Company 

By B. Crawford 

Walk a few blocks from the historic St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral in the center of Orizaba, Mexico, and you will arrive at another historic landmark, the headquarters of Teneria Company. Here, in a one-story, non-descript Read more

Jeff Ballard and Thoroughbred Leather: On the Inside Track 

By B. Crawford

“The kid’s a fighter.” That’s how former ShopTalk! owner and writer Dan Preston described 37-year-old Jeff Ballard back in 2004, when Jeff first opened Thoroughbred Leather, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky. Jeff was facing stiff competition Read more

C. Loy’s Leathers in the City at the Pass

From the “Art Leather Center of the Whole Civilized World” 

by Gene Fowler 

Most entrepreneurs, when considering starting a business, get a common piece of good advice from family and friends. Before putting your own name above the “open” Read more

Team Spirit is at the Core of a Year-Old, Growing Family Business 

Missouri company supplies leather and other custom cut parts, like sweatbands. And they offer leatherwork classes.  

By Lynn Ascrizzi  

Sometimes, what is small, nearly invisible and seemingly insignificant, is what holds things all together.  

Such is the case Read more