another reason we LOVE leather.
LEATHER IS FIRST AND FOREMOST A PRODUCT OF NATURE.
Because of this, there is an inherent natural beauty and uniqueness to each and every hide or skin. Leather is not made of plastics and is not engineered out of machine-made parts. In fact, at Townsend Leather, we believe the very best leathers are altered as slightly as possible from their natural state. Our leather craftspeople, with years of experience in the art of leather-making, seek to enhance the natural characteristics of each hide, not over-engineer or hide them.
Leather has a beautiful connection to the earth and nature. It has a unique natural snowflake type beauty in that each hide has a history and its own story to tell. Choosing leather means recognizing this connection to nature and pays homage to our beautiful world.
This post shows two other companies’ expressions of the natural beauty of leather.
See how this all started, www.townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/for-the-love-of-leather
Over the past couple weeks Townsend has been celebrating an upcoming retirement of one of our longest standing exemplary employees.
But we haven’t only been celebrating. We have also been preparing. Preparing for how to say goodbye to someone who so epitomized the values and work ethic of Townsend Leather and preparing for how to fill such a large gap when she is gone.
Jackie has been described by many as a force, a leader, a go-getter, a do-er. She doesnt stand idly by, she takes action, gets things and people moving. She has been with Townsend for 25 years. She has had her hand in all the ups and downs over that time and has literally had her hand on thousands and thousands of hides.
Townsend Leather president, Jared Eckler has said of Jackie, “If our definition of a partner was in the dictionary, I would expect to see Jackie’s picture next to it. She has come to define for me what working hard and caring for others means.”
With her hard work and dedication Jackie has led many people over the years, even when she didn’t have a leadership role. She is a natural born leader, treating everyone as equals and focusing on the work. Even while working with her sons-in-laws. She has become an expert of a particular aspect of Townsend’s production, the staker, Jackie and the quality of our staker department have become so intertwined over the years that at one of her retirement celebrations, she was presented with her own minature staker.
She will certainly be able to “let the good times roll” during her well deserved retirement.
Jackie will be missed. She has many friends here and is considered family, literally to some, and emotionally to many. She has a vibrant sense of humor and makes friends wherever she goes. And playing on that sense of humor, someone at Townsend even went out of their way to be sure that her Townsend memories are kept fresh and safe…
By plastic wrapping her truck for safe keeping!
I’m sure it took her a bit longer to get out of the Townsend parking lot this day! We did our best to hold on and keep you here as long as we could Jackie!
Jackie thank you for your time, expertise, leadership, and everything you have brought to Townsend Leather over the past 25 years. You have been an integral part of Townsend’s history and your legacy will last far into Townsend’s future.
Please join us in wishing Jackie a wonderful retirement and in thanking her for 25 years of taking care of our customers and employees!
THERE IS A REASON YOU CAN FIND VINTAGE LEATHER PRODUCTS THAT ARE STILL BEAUTIFUL.
Townsend’s leather is a natural product that has been expertly processed to withstand the test of time. More than man-made textiles, leather is able to hold up against extreme temperatures and other aging concerns.
LEATHER IS TRULY NATURE’S TEXTILE.
Leather is robust and durable. It is specially produced to withstand the test of time and harsh conditions. Vintage boots, antique furniture, old leather-bound books – they all look better and get better with age, and they last and last – thanks to the long long life of leather.
Proper care and preservation certainly play a part, but well-crafted leather will last and last. Check out this leather show that has lasted over 5000 years from National Geographic. Not many other materials in the world can boast that kind of lifespan!
See how this series started, www.townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/for-the-love-of-leather
February, the month that boasts Valentine’s Day and reminds of us of the importance of expressing love, seemed the appropriate time to share a celebration of our Love of Leather.
See below, a variety of blog posts explaining just why we love leather.
We invite you to visit our blog, facebook, or instagram to see all the reasons, people, at Townsend Leather and beyond, #LoveLeather or see the whole collection in this PDF,
Townsend Leather LOVES leather. YOU love leather, EVERYONE who has ever sat on, smelled, held, specified, or created leather – Loves Leather. Join us on our journey as we express what we love about leather in written form . . . what we are thinking of as a kind of love letter to leather.
We call this our For the Love of Leather series, and we encourage you to join in and let us know all the reasons you love leather.
There is a reason you can find vintage leather products that are still beautiful. Townsend’s leather is a natural product that has been expertly processed to withstand the test of time. More than man-made textiles, leather is able to hold up against extreme temperatures and other aging concerns.
And to fully seal our dedicated love to leather, we share with you, our Love Letter to Leather… If you feel the same way we do about beautiful luxurious leather, we encourage you to share this letter… (copy and paste this link, http://bit.ly/letherlove)
Dearest Leather,
Enter the room and all eyes are on you.
Elegant and fashionable, you stand out against the rest.
Sensual, warm, luxurious – the desire to get closer is nearly unbearable.
There is an ache to breathe in your beauty. There is an ache to feel your richness, warmth, and softness.
You naturally comfort and invite. Everyone wants to be with you and you welcome it warmly.
You are an icon. A symbol of classic beauty. An emblem of sophistication.
Depth and richness, timeless style.
Wherever you are, whenever you are, you are the style. You are the trend.
And still it is easy to find your playful side – sumptuous, sexy, mystifying.
Dark, shimmering, contouring to every shape and angle, you ignite the imagination.
You leave a lasting impression with organic ease. Nothing seems to get in your way.
You are strong and steady, but with comforting care.
You have warmly and carefully cradled my heart.
Your socially conscious ways inspire, your beauty and creativity inspires, your sensuality ignites passion.
Oh, how I love you.
REASON 1Leather Lasts a Lifetime
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/for-the-love-of-leather-reason-1-lasts
REASON 2Leather is Natural
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/its-natural
REASON 3The Feeling of Luxury that Leather Evokes
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/the-feeling-of-luxury
REASON 4Leather’s Durability
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/durability
REASON 5Leather’s Breathability
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/breathability
REASON 6Leather is Environmental
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/its-environmental
REASON 7Leather Wears In
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/wears-in
The Smell of Leather
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/the-smell
Leather Can Stretch In Every Direction
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/stretches
Leather is So Easy to Customize
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/customizeable
Townsend Leather is Manufactured in the USA
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/made-in-the-usa
Leather is Easy to Clean
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/easy-to-clean
Townsend Leather is the Highest Quality
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/highest-quality
Leather is Easy to Repair
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/easy-to-repair
Townsend Leather Has Endless Design Options
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/endless-design-options
Townsend Leather is So Easy to Order
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/easy-to-order
Leather is Easy to Pair With Fabric
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/easy-to-pair-with-fabric
Leather Increases the Value of Every Design
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/increases-the-value-of-my-designs
It is So Exciting to Open a Leather Delivery
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/the-feeling-of-opening-my-leather-delivery
Nothing Compares to Leather
https://townsendleather.com/2014/lifestyle/it-is-leather
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Townsend Leather is a luxury upholstery leather manufacturer in upstate New York. Serving designers in all markets (aviation, hospitality, contract, transportation…) in every corner of the planet. Utilizing leather’s natural beauty and enhancing it with any custom, artistic or designed element desired, Townsend is deeply in love with leather and satisfying our customers.
You can learn more about Townsend Leather at www.townsendleather.com or info@townsendleather.com
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Townsend has had an extremely long and positive partnership with the experts and innovators at Bombardier.
Even after years of countless successes, exciting events, visits, and continuous communication, Townsend was especially proud to be honored with a special Bombardier status this past Friday.
Jean-Luc Charland and Johanne Marquis took time from their very busy schedules to spend time at Townsend Leather presenting our team with a special VIP Inspection Status on behalf of Bombardier.
This honor comes to Townsend after years of successful partnership and extremely stringent quality standards. Townsend inspectors and craftsmen have proven, without a doubt, their ability to produce and maintain the highest quality leather available. Townsend is extremely proud of our team, especially our front line inspectors Mike and Kayla.
Around Townsend, we have been talking a lot lately, about all the many reasons to love leather (but that of course, is the norm around here). There are so many different reasons to love leather, but as we have been talking one point especially keeps coming up – Craftsmanship.
High quality leather lends itself so well to incredible craftsmanship. A finished project is only as good as the materials that go into it, so to create something truly masterful, you have to start with masterfully created materials.
The ever-stunning custom furniture house, Hancock & Moore, recently pushed out a video titled, In Vogue. This is essentially a near 10 minute love letter to Leather. The video does a fantastic job of expressing many of the feelings generated from the look, feel, and smell of leather.
Hancock and Moore, In Vogue, Love Letter to Leather Video
If you love leather, you will want to watch this to hear the designers speak so eloquently, what we all are thinking. And if you are still new to leather, you will want to watch to take a peak inside the mind of others and see what all the hubbub is about.
They do a fantastic job in this video expressing the benefits of leather, with some really stunning examples of their masterfully crafted furniture. These are designers with vision and exacting standards and leather is the only material that, not only can meet those visions and standards, but can do it while exciting.
Another example of leather loving craftsmanship that we came across, had all the same depth of feeling and certainly explores the value and meaning of craftsmanship – but approaches with a strong sense of humor.
The handbag company, Saddleback Leather Co. creates high quality rugged but beautiful handbags and leather goods. When they realized their products were so popular and highly desired that they were being knocked-off by low quality fakes, the company decided to have a little bit of fun with a video.
The video was featured on FastCompany, and shows the handbag designer and company CEO, talking into the camera directly to the people looking to knock-off his bags. In doing so, he is able to clearly explain the high quality of real luxury leather. Pointing out how much money can be saved on low quality leather or even vinyl, and explaining how the bag will look worse and won’t last long at all, but “you don’t care about that” he says semi-jokingly, helping to strongly make the case that high quality materials and attentive craftsmanship not only bring beauty to the pieces, but longevity and true value.
Saddleback Leather Explanation of Quality (How to Knock Off a Bag) Video
Let us know all the reasons you love leather and high quality craftsmanship, on our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/townsendleathercompany
Just a couple weeks in, and 2014 is already proving to be a positive and exciting year. A Polar Vortex with sub-zero temperatures, award shows, BridgeGate… so much happening around the country, around the world, and especially at Townsend Leather.
We have just launched some truly impressive internal software, which brings in a lot of new abilities. This software will mean some changes for the way we do things in Townsend, but it mostly means even better service to you. This is cutting edge technology with lots of improvements for how we track and push information internally. We will now have even better ways to track your leather in and out of production, have more detailed account information, and all around make us more efficient and knowledgeable.
But boring ol’ software (even though it will make us vastly more effective and you even happier) isn’t the only NEW at Townsend. (And it’s not boring at all actually, what with the vast amount of improvements, cool touch screen monitors, exciting new time savings, fun tips, lunch time meetings and so much more).
We have a bunch of exciting new products in the works, sure to please any design sensibility. A sneak preview is shown below. Utilizing our “ART & D” department we continue to push leather further, using production techniques and hands-on artistry that can’t be replicated. We have been thoroughly researching design trends and are already producing leathers that will be trend setters themselves.
At Townsend we are also focused on getting healthy, we have started a new Weight Loss Challenge, you can read about it on our News blog. We have competing teams striving for even greater healthyness and a bunch of health supporting initiatives planned for this year. As well as a calendar full of health workshops, presentations, and initiatives. 2014 will be a healthy year at Townsend!
We have been looking to the 2014 new trends in design and fashion already this year.
Below is a sneak peak of our Pantone Color of the Year inspired collection as well as some other exciting leathers that are just in the works now, including some really stunning new patterns. Some of these patterns we even further enhanced with some proprietary one-of-a-kind techniques. We also are working on some new “aged” leathers, that playfully and elegantly take some well known Townsend looks, and give them a “new/old” twist.
Samples of these leathers are not quite yet available, as these are each just in the development stage, but will soon be made widely available. If you see something you love, let us know at info@townsendleather.com or on our facebook page or contact to us if you have suggestions of some leathers you would like to see.
We are not even a month into 2014 and already all of this exciting new leather and fun happenings – 2014 is sure to be a healthy, productive, efficient, fun, exciting, and beautiful year! We hope the same for you!
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