We are in love with our newest luxury leather, Captivating Crossroads Cowhide!
It is like a love letter to your design, serving as the strong faithful support as a subtle background when it needs to be, but it can also take the lead – make the first move, and be the star stand out. With an interwoven line embossing and hand tone-on-tone tipping this is hand-crafted luxury at its finest.
We invite you to be captivated by its beauty and take a sneak peek behind the scenes at some of it being made.
This video shows just a couple of the hands-on steps in creating this masterpiece.
https://townsendleather.com/leather/samples/product-lines/Captivating-Crossroads-Tipped-Cowhide-(CCRO-T)
Since Love is in the air, please take a moment to revisit a handful of reasons to Love Leather. Read it, share it, dwell on it, leather is soo easy to love.
The stories of where we’ve been and where we are going…
We believe there are stories everywhere, in everything. We are driven by stories, we share stories, we are inspired by stories. So with the new year comes a new theme for Townsend Leather, Stories Everywhere. Stories, like floating word bubbles, that should be collected, enjoyed, and shared like the beautiful, attention-grabbing balloons that they are.
The past few years we have been thinking of year’s in terms of a theme (Superheroes Work Here, Townsend Rocks, The Magic Of Leather…) it is a fun way for us to think about and craft our many events throughout the year and it always relates to the work we do and the way we interact with our customers. This year we are going to put our focus to Stories. Your stories, project stories, people stories, the story of each product – each hide – each hand that touches it… stories everywhere.
2018 will kick off our new theme, Stories Everywhere. We will use this theme to help shape marketing elements this year and it will influence some fun we have around Townsend. We will be looking this year to capture, collect, and share as many stories as we can. Stories of Townsend, of Partners, of customers, of design, of anything! These stories might take the form of phone-captured photos that you of our people and products at Townsend or out around the world, or might be stories of new exciting leathers, or might be actually long-form written stories where we share successes and learnings with each other. There are stories everywhere, we just need to grab them out of the air and share them with each other.
Please join us in celebrating the stories of Townsend, the stories of you, and the stories of leather all throughout 2018. You can share stories directly to us at this link: www.townsendleather.com/stories and invite everyone to share stories with us too.
We have so much to look forward to this coming year, but let’s take a moment to reflect on the magical story filled year of 2017 that we just had.
One of our favorite magic moments was being awarded the honor of being a “BEST PLACES TO WORK 2017” by the Albany Business Review. A small team of dedicated Townsend Partners attended the award ceremony and celebrated in style!
We closed out our year with our Annual Holiday company-wide Luncheon, where we all come together for a catered in-house lunch and share stories, hugs, laughs, and memories taking a breath from the crazy year we just had and moving forward with lessons and inspiration.
Each year we hold our Ugly Sweater Contest at this luncheon, and it never disappoints. Along with stories form the year, superlative awards, and a message from the president it is a heartfelt and memorable time for all.
So so much happened this year, it is impossible to capture everything, but we tried! Take a look at a year of fun, magic, and craft from Townsend Leather all packed into a couple minutes – our year in blurview…
A few of our superstar Townsend Leather Partners are known for their wacky “who, what, where” hijinks, so we even had a moment to see their silliness play out on the big screen this year…
We are looking forward to the stories, continued magic, and incredible things that 2018 will bring. We have so much new leather to craft and share, www.townsendleather.com/new and are always working to create even more fantastic things, www.townsendleather.com/randd . And we can’t wait to see what comes of our newest expansion as we start work on revitalizing a historic building down the street from us, and we excitedly look forward to all the potential the new building holds for us and our team.
www.townsendleather.com/stories
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Stories are what have always made Townsend and its partners more passionate, inspired, and determined to achieve such great heights. Whether the story is about a customer, competitor, a need, a setback, a challenge, or the achievement, we love stories that need a hero or a great effort, or that celebrate one!
Our company recognition is based upon telling stories about how our partners overcome, anticipate, help others, and make our magic happen! If a company’s culture is defined by how they work, and its purpose is defined by what they stand for, then its partners’ engagement is defined by how they feel about both. The way we feel about our work is often conveyed with pride, emotion, compassion, and joy through the stories we share. Our partners know Townsend is known for designing, creating, and producing the highest quality leather on-schedule, a job they take seriously, and in itself, is what creates a lot of pride in making a career out of working with such cool people on such cool things! Their careers become a calling, a passion, and/or a livelihood when it is given a narrative.
The stories of this leather, that effort, this person, that team, this color, that print, under these circumstances, make the difference to our name and to our customer and their end user, and it was felt. No matter how we earned it before, it is the stories we create today and tomorrow that keep giving meaning, purpose, and fulfillment to us, from the newest employee or customer, to the one who has seen it all! Going into our 49th year, the stories we create and tell still drive our future and build on our mutual legacies – from our suppliers, to our employees, to our external sales team, and finally our customers, without whom there is no story to tell. On behalf of our whole team, I thank you. We hope to create a million stories of achievement, success, wonderment, inspiration, a little suspense, a touch of drama, and of course, many happy endings in 2018 together!
Jared Eckler Townsend Leather President
We are so grateful to each of you and the magic you brought Townsend this year. We are grateful for your skills and efforts and passions. We are grateful for the wealth of stories and excitement you bring to your work and relationships. 2017 was a successful year and has set us up well to create a truly story-worthy 2018.
Townsend Leather is thrilled to be gaining Tracy Kaiser of Kaiser Hospitality as their new Sales Representative servicing Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.
Tracy has a true passion for both leather and providing exemplary service to his clients and with 8 years of previous experience selling to the A&D community, furniture market, and Hospitality industry, Tracy alongside with his Project Manager, Christina Jasso, are dedicated to assisting clients with their leather needs for every project.
“When we can help a client at the right time – when they need it the most – and a project comes together – that’s inspiration for us” – Kaiser Hospitality
Tracy looks forward to meeting with you to show Townsend’s complete leather line out unsurpassed custom capabilities. Contact him at:
www.townsendleather.com/findarep
Todd Kaiser of Kaiser Contract has joined Townsend Leather to offer our superlative leather, speed, and customer service to the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California.
Based in Napa, Todd has been a member of the California A+D community for the past 15 years. He takes pride in his relationships and helping our clients reach their goals. He enjoys wine, travel, golf, reading, Tahoe, and being an truly obnoxious fan of the Golden State Warriors.
Todd represents a group of upscale and domestic lines including leather, casegoods, upholstery, and outdoor furnishings.
Townsend Leather is excited to partner with Todd as we grow rapidly in this key market.
www.townsendleather.com/findarep
Denise Drewry of DND Studio is teaming up with Townsend Leather to bring leather expertise and beauty to the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas.
Denise has 10 years working in the A & D community. With a background in hospitality design, she loves working with clients to help source for their project needs.
She represents a select group of lines that are complimentary including leather, faux leather, Textiles, Wallcovering and stone. Townsend Leather is the newest of her lines and we are very proud to be working with her.
Find out more of Denise’s story or get designing, by contacting her at:
Phone: 202-494-8121
Email: dndstudio1@gmail.com
www.townsendleather.com/findarep
Townsend Leather recently held one of its newest and most popular events, our 2017 2nd Annual Health & Wellness Fair! See all Townsend’s photos in the video link at the bottom of the post.
This was a half day of fun, games, health, learning, and togetherness. Townsend invited over 20 local health conscious companies from around the local area to share some time with our team and spread some good health vibes. It is a big fun event for all of us and we aim to spread the good vibes of it even further into the community. We were proud to get local support from so many in the community and even The Leader Herald!
See The Leader Herald’s article on Townsend’s Wellness Fair:
https://www.leaderherald.com/news/local-news/2017/08/wellness-at-work/
We shut down work early and ventured out into the beautiful Townsend campus grounds, into the greenery and pond and wandered through the multiple Health zones of the fair.
Nathan Littauer Hospital had so much healthyness to share with us, physical, educational, mental… they were an excellent Partner to have in this event.
See Nathan Littauer’s Facebook post and photos of the day:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10154521070145882&id=252514165881
Bacon Bits the Therapy Pig even made an appearance and spent the day with us being pet and posing for photos:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=652048568318066&id=394110170778575
Townsend is focused on the health and well being of our Partners and our company and approach health from a truly holistic point of view, its more then just eating right and moving, its also mental, emotional, social, financial, and physical health – and at our fair we aim to have something that touches on each of those elements.
This year also included the incredibly popular and heavily attended 1st Annual Volleyball Tournament! Volleyball was happening throughout the entire day and teams even had custom made t-shirts and plenty of attitude!
We love this event and are so looking forward to making it even bigger each year going forward.
We are so thankful for all the companies and groups that came to Townsend to share their time and message with us! Thank you especially to:
Active and Well Chiropractic
Ally Health
Arbonne Anti Aging and Wellness Co.
Bacon Bits Therapy Pig
Cancer Peer Education
Catholic Charities
CDPHP
CDPHP Registered Nurse
Chair Massage
Community Health Care
COOL Insuring
Core Fit
Meco’s Perfect Scoop
Mohawk Medical
Nathan Littauer Hospital
NBT Bank
NYOH
SW The Spa
TLC Cook’s tables
TLC Sales Table
Townsend Community Garden
Townsend HR Team signup
Townsend Recycles
Townsend Safety Committee
TownZENd YOGA
Prestige Services Donation
and more!
An incredible day with incredible people. Thank you Townsend Leather Partners and everyone in our community for making this such an excellent event!
See all Townsend’s photos in this photo slideshow:
https://youtu.be/NwUTN97J5_k
Leather thickness has always been an area of concern in the upholstery world, especially in the aircraft industry. Specific requirements for weight have even been formally established in leather supply contracts.
However, we want you to know, thinner isn’t necessarily better.
When targeting weight savings, the risk of what is sacrificed in strength must be considered. Leather’s strength is directly related to the center section of the structure, known as the corium. This structure is created by tiny fibrous strands that are twisted together into bundles. This fiber network forms an untold number of inter-locks which result in leather’s very high tensile strength. The thicker the leather, the more substance you have…the more interlocks…the result is greater strength. Therefore, as you reduce substance (thickness) you naturally reduce strength. Splitting (skiving) completed leather is a process that is often used to reduce thickness. The skiving process actually cuts the interlocked fibers of the corium and severely weakens the overall strength of the structure. Skived leather should never be used in contact/seating areas of upholstery.
As you may recall from a previous bulletin, one way to minimize the visibility of veins is to maintain a slightly thicker substance in the hides. Thinner leather shows more veins and vein detail.
Leather in itself is not a readily burnable material. The thicker the leather, the better its natural flame resistance properties. Much of leather’s propensity to burn depends on the dyeing and finishing processes. Fire resistance treatments are added to the leather substance to combat these processes. A thinner leather will not absorb as much fire-resistant treatment as a thicker leather will, which can lead to a negative influence on the flammability properties of the leather. Townsend Leather products are produced at the optimum thickness of 1.0-1.2 mm to give strength, softness, and workability. How leather thickness is measured: Hides are processed to make a uniform thickness. However, each animal is different and there is always a slight thickness variation throughout the hide. This is why leathers are typically sold with a range of thicknesses. Leather thickness is measured in millimeters using a gauge.
Thickness can also be specified in terms of weight with one ounce equal to 1/64 inch thickness.
If you know the leather thickness and the ounce conversion (see chart, below), you can easily calculate the weight per square foot using the following formula:
mm = 2.5 ounces/sqft
2.5 ounces/sqft x 55 sqft = 137.5 ounces
137.5 ounces divides by 16 oz/lb = 8.6 lbs / hide
Remember that thickness will vary within a hide and therefore, the weight will also vary. While this formula is very accurate, it will not always be exact because of the natural variations in thickness.
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