A Decade of Inspiration
For anyone looking for some inspiring books, TED Talks, or some pop culture things to check out, cultivated by Jared from last year and the past decade, check out his list from the end of ‘19:… Full Aritcle
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For anyone looking for some inspiring books, TED Talks, or some pop culture things to check out, cultivated by Jared from last year and the past decade, check out his list from the end of ‘19:
Hey Partners,
I’m no genius, but I sure know how to perspire (😊) and love to be inspired!! Below is my annual list of favorite books and stuff that inspired me over the year as a special edition that includes my favorites from this past decade too.
I hope you enjoy and find something that interests you, my library is always available to all and I am happy to buy copies of these books for anyone and/or host a Ted Talk from the list with your team!!
I wish everyone a Happy and inspired New Year and beyond!
Looking forward to the journey we take together in the next decade!!
– Jared Eckler
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Townsend Leather is putting our focus on health, safety, community, and customers.
While we keep our main production “on pause”, we are still staying active. We have a team diligently working at cleaning our entire Townsend Leather campus, we have a team working to give customers fast-af-action to ship beautiful In-Stock leathers, and we have our whole company focused on each other and our community finding any ways we can help be a support.
One of the ways we have been doing that is by working with other local companies to cut fabric for much-needed masks.
See a local news clip here:
We would love to hear from you of what you are doing during this unprecedented time, meet us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/TownsendLeatherCompany
Townsend Leather initiates a slow ramp up, with a focus on safety.
With a steadfast and urgent focus on health and safety, we want you to know Townsend Leather is still your Partner.
The new normal looks different and the future is unknown, but we are remaining flexible, agile, and putting our all into our values of grit and teamwork to find solutions for you, while we remain diligent in health-first operations.
Townsend Leather is utilizing best-possible-health practices to slowly ramp up our production process and investing in new technology to offer quick responses and focused support, starting next week.
What this means:
- Starting April 1st, Townsend Leather will be able to provide quick response and ready-to-ship leather selections from our enormous In-Stock options.
- Townsend Leather production will remain “on pause” until April 3rd, with around 10% of our team active next week, to disinfect our buildings, prep critical operations, and our Remote Team of Partners will be answering emails and finding every solution they can through the remote tools we have available.
- On April 13th, Townsend Leather will start core production processes with a first-wave of returning Partners. CFAs, Strike-Offs, and Sample Requests will start being sent out during this time.
Townsend Leather has been busy preparing for a return to work during this time, as well as,
utilizing our resources to support our Community through cutting fabric for local hospital face-masks (Townsend connected with other local business to gather materials and cut patterns for thousands of fabric face-masks to donate to our local hospital),
our Partners through paid-time-off (Townsend has been offering full pay to all Townsend Partners through this unprecedented period of pause, a challenge to maintain, but an important one for Townsend’s leadership to act on – our family of Townsend Leather Partner’s/employee’s health and future is of the utmost importance),
our State by adhering to the policies and best-practices outlined by our Governor (Townsend Leather, evaluated our “essential” status and even though we could work, we knew we wanted to put safety first and go “on pause” with the rest of the state),
and our Customers by putting focus to the future and attentive planning (In-stock available April 1st for immediate shipment, implementation of an active remote team, and a ramp-up of production in coming weeks).
We are all lucky to truly love the work we do and a part of all of us is grieving that we cannot carry on as normally. But our current steps of action and care will make the future even sweeter when we surmount these challenges and see brighter days.
We will get there, together.
Please reach out to your customer service rep or info@townsendleather.com for further questions or messages.
We will stay connected and communicate as often as we can with any updates or changes. You can stay connected to us via Facebook, www.facebook.com/TownsendLeatherCompany
Townsend Leather “On Pause” starting Monday
TOWNSEND LEATHER WILL BE CLOSED STARTING MARCH 23
Following mandate guidelines, regarding stopping the spread of COVID19, from New York State Governor, Townsend Leather will be fully shut down starting Monday, March 23 for a period of time yet-unknown, due to the fluidity of the situation.
For the health and safety of our partners and all New York State residents, we will be participating proudly to follow the state guidelines and helping to “PAUSE” the spread of this virus.
We will be anxiously awaiting a return to normalcy and are taking painstaking efforts to prepare ourselves for a quick return to high efficiency. Being the manufacturer ourselves, and with stock on our shelves, and love for leather in our hearts – the moment we resume work, we will be at full speed! So, we encourage all customers to continue submitting Sample Request or New Customers to complete registration forms. We will ship requests when we resume and will respond to submissions and communications as soon as we are able.
We will stay connected and communicate as often as we can with any updates or changes. You can stay connected to us via Facebook, www.facebook.com/TownsendLeatherCompany
Resilience. It is what we hope for, it is what we work toward.
Together. It is what we are, even if not physically.
Physical presence does not define us, 6 feet, 6 miles, 6 continents… we are united through, actions, words, support… we are together. We are in this together, we will get through this together.
We are awed by the examples of resilience, of team, of care, of community that have been on display through this time of uncertainty and rapid changes… the local Regional Animal Shelter working to provide dog food to those in need, the highly-connected people – working to pass accurate and informed information to all, the vast and varied healthcare network tirelessly working for all of us, the individuals taking a moment to look each other in the eye and listen to concerns and fears…Now more than ever, we are proud to be crafted in the Glove Cities, we are proud to be Townsend Partners, we are proud to be together.
Townsend Leather is dedicated to putting the well-being of our Partners first. We are utilizing our resources and network to stay informed and take action. The future is undetermined, which is unsettling, but also means there is endless space for hope.
We hold to hope. We hold to hope in each other and in knowing, together we will get through this.
We are not defined by proximity, by the work we do, by the danger we face… we are defined by the values we display in times of strife. We aim, to be defined, by being Partners, together.
And we sincerely thank you for joining us in partnership during this time.
– Townsend Leather
We love what we do, who we do it for, and who we do it with – and we love having the opportunity to share all that love.
A touch of heart.
At our heart, Townsend is about craft, we are about craftspeople, we are about relationship and community, we are about integrity and quality.
There’s an element of real passion between our people and the product we make that can’t be manufactured. It develops from being present with the leather, looking at it, inspecting it, touching it, knowing the depth and the history of that piece to make it perfect.
TOWNSEND LEATHER ON YOUTUBE:
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This month of love, we are honored to share with you, a touch of our heart. Everything we do at Townsend requires a team, a team of hands. Coming together around our collective heart to create something magical. Of the many reasons to love leather, one of our favorites is the touch. The feel of the weight as a hide is masterfully thrown out onto a table, the sense of your fingers sliding across the surface connecting with the grain, the touch of elegance it brings to a design, the connection you feel to the hands that crafted it and the hands that loved it.
While nothing is the same as holding a hide of leather in your hand or being physically present to the wizardry of crating those hides, we hope this brief video brings you a little closer to feeling our passion and what it is like to be part of Townsend Leather, we hope you feel a little touch of heart from us to you, in the things we are so passionate and heart-filled about.
If it moves you enough to want to get your own hands & touch on the process and be here with us as we craft, let us know!
We are always excited to have visitors.
And for more Reasons to Love Leather take a gander at our Instagram Stories.
Townsend Leather loves our Glove Cities community and was honored and proud to be awarded the “Edward L. Wilkinson Industry of the Year” earlier this month by the Fulton Montgomery Regional Chamber of Commerce during their annual, “Cheers to Business! — A Celebration of Business, Collaboration, and Progress.”
Townsend Leather had proud partners in attendance the receive the award, which is given to a local business that displays the ideals, optimism, and hope for the future of our region that were held by economic development leader Edward L. Wilkinson.
Read more at The Leader Herald: https://www.leaderherald.com/news/community-news/2020/01/area-businesses-and-individuals-honored-at-annual-cheers-to-business-celebration/
Townsend Leather is fundamentally about leather, but it is the hands that make it and the hands that love it which drives us forward. That is why we give our 2020 focus to a year centered around, TOUCH. The Touch of Leather.
The feel, the softness, the warmth, the nap, the texture, the luxuriousness, the artistry, the beauty . . . like the expansive span of watercolor, the touch of leather reaches out in all directions, giving us a sense of timelessness and connection while invigorating all of our senses and emotions.
Townsend Leather’s 2019 was spent Stitching Together our past, our future, our history, & our dreams. With huge moments like the celebration of our 50th Anniversary and the Grand Opening of our newest building, The Stitch. It was a year of epic proportions in Townsend storied history. The most commonly repeated element, as is always with Townsend Leather, is the connection and love of people. People, hands, connection – coming together with hard-times-hugs and celebration-high-fives, coming together to create beauty and rest in luxury.
We celebrated Townsend’s history of 50 years and spent time dreaming about the future. The common thread is always people, craft, leather… touch. 2020 is a focused return to the core of Townsend Leather – the touch of leather. Nature’s textile.
We manufacture leather. Leather demands to be touched. And when it is, it sparks a sense of earth, connection, luxury, beauty, timelessness.
This year will continue to be a celebration, a celebration of this wonder-material of leather and the way it draws your hand to it, the way it calls out to be touched, the way it touches your heart. A celebration of the hands that craft it and the hands that love it.
Our theme of The Touch of Leather kicks in, right at the turn of the year, by starting our year off with our annual calendar gift. This year giving focus to action and the touch of your words on the page… a notebook with ample space for your dreams, goals, messages of thanks, and notes.
Please contact us, if you have not received your very own 2020 Touch of Leather Notebook/Calendar from Townsend Leather, email us at info@townsendleather.com so we can get one into your hands.
And we have an additional gift for all you active-notebook-users out there, you know who you are ;) – page organizational stickers!
Contact us for your own free sheets of Townsend-centric page-marking STICKERS and more!
Mark your important pages with page flags!
Mark important dates with calendar callouts!
This year will be full of touching surprises, beautiful leathers, and opportunities for us to connect.
Let us know what you want to get your hands on!
Want to show off your Townsend fandom? Or express your colorful love of leather?
Get your own Townsend Leather designed designer tee’s at:
https://www.townsendleathershirts.com/
The above link brings you right to a storefront for Amazon where you can place orders for your favorite color and size in any of the Townsend designs.
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