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Townsend and our incredible Partners are no strangers to media coverage and awards, but it is especially fun when they both happen in the same week.
The FM Champer named our very own HR superstar, Ashly Capobianco as the winner of the Community Service award!
2025 Fulton Montgomery Chamber Annual Member Awards 
“We’re extremely excited to announce the outstanding individuals and businesses that make our community thrive. This year, we honor those whose hard work, dedication, and innovation have significantly contributed to the continued growth and prosperity of our region.
Let’s take a moment to recognize the incredible achievements of our award recipient:
The Herbert T. Singer Community Service Award is awarded to: Ashley Capobianco, of Townsend Leather – Recognizing her selfless dedication to enhancing the quality of life in our community.
These individuals and businesses represent the best of what our Chamber stands for. Please join us in congratulating all the winners! They will be recognized at our Fulton Montgomery Regional Chamber Business Expo & Annual Awards Celebration on April 3!“
In the same week, Townsend Leather was also featured in the newspaper, The Leader Herald.
The Leader Herald reached out to our SR VP of Sales & Marketing, Sarah Eckler. Townsend Leather has been in the “leather-making region” of New York state for over 55 years, and the journalists at The Leader Herald wanted to capture some of the changes over the years to the industry and highlight how Townsend Leather is not only still standing but is, in fact, thriving. You can see the article below and plainly see the passion Sarah has for this work nd the people of Townsend Leather.
Johnstown, NY
Sarah Kucel Eckler, Townsend Leather — Outlook 2025
It seemed to happen almost overnight.
Once, Fulton County was home to a thriving leather industry, with large tanneries and glove-making shops employing nearly 80% of residents. But because environmental regulations, offshore markets and other forces, tanneries began shuttering their doors. By the 1980s, the once-vibrant leather business had faded into obscurity.
Not all of it, however.
Townsend Leather, a family-owned business, survived the purge, and today is alive and well. After four generations, the business — founded in 1969 by the Kucel family — provides goods for airliner interiors, retail applications and hospitality functions. Townsend products are produced inside a facility at 4 Grove St. in Johnstown.
“We look like a different company today in terms of what we produced back in the ’70s and ’80s,” said Sarah Kucel Eckler, Townsend’s senior vice president for sales and marketing. “It was high volume. Leather was more of a commodity. We were running as much square feet as we could produce in a year.”
Eckler’s father took over the business in the early 1980s after her grandfather unexpectedly died.
The business survived the exodus of work overseas by finding niche markets to service. Eckler credits her father and mother for realizing the company could survive by working with major airliners. In addition, Eckler’s grandfather created a unique five-stage spray line that her father used to create colors for the leather.
“We were in touch with a designer that could no longer source leather anymore from where they were getting it for a head-of-state project that the people that were buying the plane were very particular [about],” she said. “For one week [the team] worked around the clock, perfecting these colors. We sent our samples and they improved them, and so then we got that business.”
Eckler said that after that particular project the business gained more clientele via word of mouth. As more technology came about for private planes, clients wanted more customization options for the interior.
“Cessna came on board with us in the ’90s and then Gulfstream, and now we work with all the major aircraft OEMs,” she said.
Eckler added that being flexible and producing custom colors, finishes and effects gave the company an edge, since their competitors who don’t make their own leather — instead they stock it — faced long lead times from suppliers and high minimums. For example, if a client wanted a custom purple leather, they would have to purchase at least 3,000 feet. At Townsend, they’ll make one hide if needed.
“Our customers are very demanding, as you can imagine. Someone that’s buying a bombardier global that costs $80 million doesn’t want imperfections in their leather,” Eckler said. “It’s kind of a high-stress job, but I think everyone at Townsend has a passion for leathermaking and having fun, and taking so much pride in what [we] do.”
To produce its products, Townsend uses humanely raised, free-range animals that are allowed to mature naturally. The company also has a unique cutting program that is intended to reduce waste during the process.
Eckler said that on average the company produces 3 to 4 million square feet in a year. The company currently employs more than 150 people. Townsend buys the raw material for its leather from southern Germany, where it’s tanned before being shipped to the Townsend facility. Currently Townsend’s biggest seller is what it calls the “classic cow hide,” but in reality it’s German bull hides.
“We do everything — from the aniline dyeing, embossing, finishing,” Eckler said. “Some products have a hand-tipping effect, pearlized finishes, antiques — pretty much anything you can think of. We also are offering a cutting service for some of our larger customers that have repetitive cuts.”
Eckler wasn’t always sure she wanted to join the family business. However, when the company nearly went bankrupt in the 1980s and ’90s, she saw how much work her parents were putting into the company to help it survive. She officially joined the company in 2001.
Since then Eckler has seen Townsend’s products reach all over the world, from Dubai to Las Vegas. She added that the company is always looking for new blood to continue its leathermaking traditions.
“We’re always looking for people that want to learn, grow with the company and learn the craftsmanship side of it,” she said. “But there’s that aspect to it, for sure, because you can’t learn coloring or dyeing overnight. But there’s a lot of new technology that we’re taking advantage of with color spectrometers to read out colors, and [we have] the new machines we have for cutting and quilting. We definitely want to keep up with technology so we need people that are computer-savvy nowadays.”
Eckler said she is proud of Townsend Leather’s legacy in the region and likened the employees at the company to her family.
“Whether it’s in a home or a hotel or a boat, it’s pretty neat what we do here in Fulton County,” she said. “We’re just really proud to keep up the leathermaking tradition of this area, [and] we intend to keep doing that.”
If you are a lover of leather, design, and savings… this is for you.
For a limited time only, you can shop Townsend Leather’s beautiful Overstock leathers for
up to 50% off.
Various overstock leathers are always available and right now we are offering discounted pricing up to 50% off list price. We are clearing space for our growing projects and ever expanding business. These are first-quality leather hides that are looking for the perfect design or upholstery use.
Contact us at info@townsendleather.com to place an order and make your selection from the leathers shown here: samples.townsendleather.com/overstocks
https://townsendleather.com/blog/by-design
Our passion for design drives us and inspires us to share. Every once in a while we take a moment to gather some design-focused elements of what we do and who we are and curate them together in a periodic periodical we call, By Design from Townsend Leather.
It’s a glance into what’s new and what’s spotlighted at Townsend right now, and the newest editions is available now.
townsendleather.com/by-design
2025 is already shaping up to be a year that is… extra. But, with leather in our hands and design on our mind, we can put the extra in extraordinary, together. At Townsend Leather, that is our goal this year, find all the ways to put the extra in extraordinary, bring delight, excitement, and design success to anywhere our leather touches.
And we are starting the year off with new extra. Extra doesn’t always mean flashy or superfluous, sometimes extra is just the right amount of texture, of appeal, of need-to-touch-it-ness.
Sometimes extra looks like a captivating elegance of light and shadow, which is why we are starting the year with extra, by introducing our brand new product, designed by the one and only, Stacy Garcia Blue Label… an embossed woven cowhide, Arden Weave.
Arden Weave Cowhide is an intricate basketweave design with a timeless color palette made in edge-to-edge useable panels. Get samples on your design boards and see more at Arden Weave Cowhide by Stacy Garcia
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Townsend Leather is proud to be a featured article in the recent publication of Business Jet Interiors International. The article highlights the many ways that leather is not only a sustainable choice, but is the preferred choice.
We love leather and all aspects of the production, including education. There is a lot of greenwashing and greenwishing out in the world, especially surrounding leather, but this article aims to clarify how you can count on leather to be your best sustainable material choice. For further conversation or information, contact us at info@townsendleather.com
A version of the article appears below.
Or see more at our sustainable page: https://townsendleather.com/about-us/townsend-the-environment
Townsend Leather Sustainability Facts:
Leather is the sustainable textile choice
The way forward for the aviation industry, and truly every industry, is putting focus on sustainability. True sustainability starts with knowledge and battling the onslaught of misinformation, greenwashing, and greenwishing. There are many options of textiles and seat coverings on the market, but when you are looking for the green/environmental/sustainable choice, there is only one option: Leather. Leather is the sustainable textile choice.
“The year 2025 will be all about sustainability. And sustainable – is leather. The only way to get a textile that is natural, safe, high-quality – sustainable, is leather. Unmatched durability, green from its start as a by-product, an inimitable fiber structure, natural, safe, the longest lasting, and truly sustainable, leather is the choice.”
Fact: No animal in Townsend Leather’s production is killed for leather.
Leather is inherently a green product. It is made from the waste of a different industry.
Leather is a by-product of the meat industry, free-range, well-cared for, humanely raised cattle are farmed for meat, what is leftover would be burned, but the leather industry turns this waste into something life-long lasting. Not letting waste be wasted, showing respect for the animal and the environment, the leather industry turns the trash of one industry into something reusable and beautiful.
Fact: Leather is humankind’s oldest textile.
Leather has been around almost as long as humans, the skills and craft to produce leather have changed a lot over the years, but the threads of that connection to history and craft remain.
Fact: Because of its irreproducible natural fiber structure – leather is natural, durable, repairable, and life-long lasting.
With skilled technicians, a hole or tear in leather can be repaired, filled, and seamless. The intricately woven fiber structure of leather cannot be reproduced in any fabricated product. This unique, natural, woven fiber structure allows leather to last a lifetime, often longer than the frame it is used on, it allows it to withstand time and harsh conditions. The natural durability of leather can handle wear and tear that would destroy mass-produced materials, like vinyl and others. The durability of leather is unmatched, it can last as much as 4 times longer than fabric coverings.
Fact: Townsend Leather’s production is sustainable
Townsend Leather is the manufacturer, we are not distributors or resellers, we harness the history of the “leather-making region” that we are homed in, to handcraft the highest quality and most beautiful leather for seats and feets. Because we are the manufacturer, we can change in real-time, create only what is needed, and have a literal hand on everything we do leading to reduced waste and increased efficiency. We are AS9100 certified ensuring the highest of quality. Quality leather last longer, and quality manufacturing means less waste, less reworks, less frustration. With our hearts on the history of leather craft, we put our minds to the future and utilize the most cutting-edge technology in our production leading to a reduction of chemicals, reduction of water, and a reduction of energy usage.
Our production process uses water-based finishes and vegetable-based retanning agents creating leather that is free of dangerous chromes post-consumer recyclable, and low VOC.
A word on chromes: there is some misinformation about chromes. All chromes are not equal and all chromes are not bad. The idea of chrome-free leather is a green-whishing effort, playing on the misinformation and unfounded belief that all chromes are bad. Chrome-free leather is not inherently any better for humans or the environment, it is just simply a different process. Chromes are a natural element found in many things. The natural chromes found in Townsend’s production allow for the most luxurious feel and best quality leather, and they are the same chromes you find in broccoli – safe, natural. Removing broccoli-type chromes from your leather does not make it a better leather.
Our natural production process allows the leather to stay as true to its natural form as can be, we do as little as possible to it. Allowing the natural beauty of the produce to shine. When you visit Townsend Leather’s facility you will notice that no one needs to wear a hazmat suit or extreme safety protections, because the process is natural and safe. There is no fear of dangerous chemical spills or toxic exposure. Unlike vinyl or other human-made textiles, leather is natural and the production process is safe, leather is not made with harsh chemicals and dangerous production processes. Leather is not made from PVC, ethylene, chlorine, or crude oil.
The organization Leather Naturally, which ‘promotes the use of globally manufactured sustainable leather and seek to inspire and inform designers, creators, and consumers about its beauty, quality and versatility’ is a great resource for more information about the sustainability of leather and Townsend Leather is a proud member. Luxury car manufacturer, Bentley, is also a member of Leather Naturally. Bentley has recognized that leather is the sustainable textile and understands leather is the way forward for luxury sustainability.
Fact: Leather is the sustainable choice and there are even further sustainable actions you can take
As a purchaser of sustainable materials, you can truly impact our collective future. First by relying on leather as the go-to solution for sustainable textiles. But also ensuring you are choosing quality manufactured leather, like an AS9100 manufacturing leather company.
Within your leather selections, you can choose Embossed products. Embossing allows for the greater reduction of waste, increasing yield, and better utilization of the hide selection process and product mix. Creating a uniform look with an even further reduction of visible defects for patterns or a consistency of grain for grain embossings, which leads to a superior cutting yield and even further improved wear performance. Choosing embossed products can often reduce your order quantity and waste by half.
Also utilizing a leather manufacturer with specialized additional offerings such as quilting and cutting. A cutting program can save you a tremendous amount in waste and cost savings. Receive only the material you need, save on shipping weight costs, save on storage, maximize your yield. Townsend Leather offers a cutting program which is truly a cost and waste-saving program. It is the greatest method for waste reduction, to the point where even the scrap that is left from our computer-driven machine cutting is utilized for other products making it a full-cycle green process.
Fact: Leather is natural and beautiful.
When the leather in your design project has served its purpose and is discarded you can feel good knowing that it degrades through biological means. It will only take 50-100 years to decompose in a waste facility, meanwhile vinyl will take 10 times that, 1000 years – before it has broken down.
Leather is the sustainable choice, but it is also the comforting choice, the historical choice, the savings choice, and the beautiful choice.
It was a JOY FULL year!
We were recognized as a Top Work Place in the capital region,
We were recognized as a Top Work Place by USA Today,
We were recognized as a Best Place To Work,
We introduced beautiful new Stacy Garcia products,
We brought on new friends and representation,
& We celebrated our 55th anniversary...
So much to celebrate, so much to enjoy.
Thank you for joining us in the joy of this year.
Share your joy with us:
64 entries.
Townsend support has always been excellent! Thank you!
Working with Townsend is such a pleasure and I love the idea of this Thank you book. It makes me so happy to see all these grateful comments and to realize the joy that this company spreads.
We are thankful for Sherry and the great company of Townsend!
You have a wonderful team to work with.
From GTI, Just Plane Great!
Your "joy" billboard worked! Definitely brought me joy, lol!
I saw that you helped give gifts to Johsntown school kids who need them. That is incredible. you all have such big hearts.
This place and all the people at it bring me such joy! Thanks for being great!
Holy crap what a great place!
Just saw this billboard and it made me smile. Glad places like Townsend Leather are in our community.
Keep up the good work! Love working with such a dependable company - always professional !
I am thankful to work with such a committed team, from customer service, quality to the owner. I always feel we are listen. Townsend team is always willing to improve when we have any kind of requests or suggestions.
We appreciate that you are made in the U.S.A, and can usually get orders out quickly for us that meet our customer's expectations.
I am thankful to work with such a committed team at Townsend, from quality, customer service up to Jared. Thank you for always want to to better for your customers. I appreciate it.
I love being part of this area's legacy. Having my hand in leather, just like so many people before us, being part of that story feels cool.
I love being able to tell everyone I know that we have made leather for Vanilla Ice
There is not place like Townsend because our people make each day the best it can be by being excellent to each other Every. Single. Day
It feels like a shared vision here. Everyone together, working toward something special. You get to be yourself and at the same time be part of something, that is something I love.
I love that everyday I get to do and learn new things. The people here are so willing to talk about what they do, and it makes me want to try my hand in every department. And the whole workplace culture is wonderful. Management listens when I have a problem and they work quickly to remedy it.
I love being able to see and handle all of the beautiful leathers that are made here. I am coming up on my 28th Anniversary and so thankful that I have been able to be a part of this company for so long!! I also love the love and appreciation I get from my boss! A true family!
I love getting to work with beautiful leathers everyday! There are so many different kinds
After working a few thankless jobs over the past 15 years, coming to Townsend was literally hitting the "job-jackpot" My mentors and supporters here have helped me grow not only In my career, but in life as well. I love being a part of such a great company.
I am thankful for not being "just a number" in an oddly fun and chaotic workplace, but to be a "Partner" in something much larger...A Family. A Family that takes care of each other and jumps in when necessary.
Everyday I get to spend time with people I love and get my hands onto something awesome. It feels great.
i love feeling part of something
I love making leather!
I love how much of a family Townsend is - we make the best of everything. Having such driven and dedicated partners make you want to excel at whatever you're doing! The different personalities and cultures make for an interesting day, everyday :)
I love how familiar everyone is with each other. We all know each others personalities, likes and even dislikes. LOL We really are like a close family! I feel very comfortable at my job EVERY day!
It might not be easy at times but the one thing is we are treated like family. We come in and work as a team everyday, through the good and the bad we have fun, laugh, joke around with one another while creating beautiful leather and being proud of what we make.
I love who I work with. This team is the f'n best!
Something I love about my job is the feeling that my work matters. I have input and a voice and am part of something.
Thank you for always sharing videos and photos of your teams spreading joy and appreciation. Townsend is setting the standard on driving creativity through adversity. Thank you for the "thank you"s. :)
I am thankful for our industry and thankful for the creativity behind the wonderful and thoughtful Townsend Leather "thank you" video - your creativity is inspiring and more importantly, I am reminded of how important the word "thank you" truly is. Thank you!!!!!
hang in there!
For all our partners and their families safety through this year!! We have been through tough economic times before but never mixed with matters of life and death and uncertainty around health and our livelihood! Together we have made the best of a year Where that takes work! Thankful for the business and opportunities we do have and thankful for all our partners that help us capture and excel at them!!
I am thankful to be connected to such heart-filled people, as Townsend Leather, who come together to help each other through tough times
I am thankful for waking up everyday to be able to enjoy what our lives have, awesome family and friends 😍
Obviously, thankful for good health during this COV19 but also for the friendships I developed with co-workers, my associates throughout the world and the designers that I've had the pleasure of assisting on projects.
Thank you to all our customers redoing and updating their showrooms and workrooms with Townsend Leather. Our sample dept. loves to be kept busy with making samples for your use! Keep the requests coming!
Having a job at Townsend
Feeling thankful to have most of our workforce back and to be making beautiful
leather for customers around the world here in Johnstown, New York.
I am thankful for a safe and comfortable place to work and the kind people I get to work with
Thankful and so blessed to live this beautiful life surrounded by amazing family, friends, and doggos! ❤️
Thank you Townsend Partners for having such heart and passion in all you do.
Thank you to all our customers who engage with Townsend Leather and incorporate our leathers into their designs. You are the reason we get to do what we love!
Thank you Townsend for all the hard work that you put into your product and making it beautiful for our projects.
I love the fall, especially because of NBAA. The months and time we anxiously and excitedly prepare for NBAA is like the feeling as a kid on Christmas Eve. The anticipation and inspiration felt from this show and our customers is something to look forward to the entire year!
I love the personal relationships that I have developed with our customers, throughout industries. I know about their personal lives and things that are important to them; not just about our work together.
I love when a customer challenges us by asking for something we have never done on leather. Challenge accepted!
Thank you to all the essential workers that have worked tirelessly to keep so many others safe.
Thank you ice cream, for existing.
I am thankful for sunlight.
Thank you Jared Eckler for being the best leader and role model I’ve had the honor of working for. Thank you for believing in every one of us. Much love for you and the entire Kucel Family
Thank you to all our partners for being so willing to do whatever it takes for our leather and for each other.
“Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.”
I'm thankful for my family, health and Townsend Leather!
Thank you to all who bought 50/50 tickets today to support Roy! We really have the most generous people! :)
Thank you Townsend for creating such beauty
For the generosity towards helping Roy M. Willis - thank you so much to all! Rachel Hidde and Danielle M. Intelisano told me everyone is really helping out!
Thank you for the everyday motivation of becoming better
to Pamela Goldswer and to all the new partners on our team the past month or two of new partners has me so excited for our future! I’m always inspired to do all I can for us to be successful but with such a great influx of great new partners it makes me doubly want to push all opportunities I and we can to reach an even greater potential we have!
Thank you, Townsend, for accepting me and believing in me.
Thank you Townsend Leather for 50 years of positive action in our Glove Cities community.
Thank you to all Townsend Partners for making it such a joy to work every day.
We love our community and are proud that we have crafted here for 55 years! And we are still growing!
If you want to join our Top Workplace / Best Place to Work award-winning, heart-filled, craft-focused, leather-making, joy-spreading team, you can! We are growing and hiring, you can apply to join our team here: https://townsendleather.com/careers/apply
At Townsend, we believe in the power of Togetherness. We believe in the power of community. And we believe in the power of giving. This is why we do everything we can to support one another and our Glove Cities community.
Townsend Leather is proud to consistently give back to our community. Each year we give at least $10,000 in local community support.
We have a dedicated arm of our team called our HUGS team focused on helping our community in any way we can. Through volunteer work, donation of goods, or financial support – there is always some way that Townsend can give out a “hug” and we always welcome it. www.townsendleather.com/hug
We focus on helping our internal community as well. Through our Hides of Hope program, we have a Partner-funded, Partner-funding “bank” to help each other through tough times and celebrate with each other in great times, our Stronger Together shirts even help support our system:
But the thing we are maybe best at is, spreading joy! We spread joy by crafting the world’s best leather for seats and feats used and loved by people all over the globe. We spread joy by working together as a team, looking out for each other, supporting each other, celebrating with each other. We spread joy by being active members of our loved community. We spread joy by being us.
I Got A Job I Love.
Along with so many other great people! We love what we do, who we do it with, and who we do it for.
Get a job you love too! ❤️ Join me at Townsend Leather, the award-winning Best Place to Work and Top Workplace!
Townsend is proud to have the best jobs in the area and make the best leather in the world, and YOU can join me here.
Townsend Leather loves our community and is proud to be crafted in the Glove Cities. We are growing as a company and are really excited about the team and culture we have cultivated over the years.
For many years, we have been named a Top Place to Work and the Best Place to Work, with 40 Under 40 award-winning leadership, and even more special awards, just for our company culture. We take the act of creating a team very seriously and hope to provide lifelong jobs for our community.
We offer highly competitive pay, bonuses, an impressive full benefits package, and we are looking, right now, to grow our Production Team and Shoe Leather Teams as well as some other areas, and everywhere across Townsend has a lot of growth potential for the future; despite the current times and challenges, we are super busy and are projecting even more growth in the coming years.
- Townsend is a many times winners of Top Workplace and Best Place to Work – recognized as the best place to work in the capital region by not 1 but 2 places that do this stuff for a living. Townsend is the Best Place to Work.
- We love what we do, who we do it for, and who we do it with. Our company culture is like no other. We make the world’s best leather, and we do it as a team. Making the world’s best anything is cool, making the world’s best leather is beyond cool.
Townsend Leather loves our community and is proud to be crafted in the Glove Cities. We are growing as a company and are really excited about the team and culture we have cultivated over the years.
For many years, we have been named a Top Place to Work and the Best Place to Work, with 40 Under 40 award-winning leadership, and even more special awards, just for our company culture. We take the act of creating a team very seriously and hope to provide lifelong jobs for our community.
We offer highly competitive pay, bonuses, an impressive full benefits package, and we are looking, right now, to grow our Production Team and Shoe Leather Teams as well as some other areas, and everywhere across Townsend has a lot of growth potential for the future; despite the current times and challenges, we are super busy and are projecting even more growth in the coming years.
- Townsend is a many times winners of Top Workplace and Best Place to Work – recognized as the best place to work in the capital region by not 1 but 2 places that do this stuff for a living. Townsend is the Best Place to Work.
- We love what we do, who we do it for, and who we do it with. Our company culture is like no other. We make the world’s best leather, and we do it as a team. Making the world’s best anything is cool, making the world’s best leather is beyond cool.
See more about our career opportunities at our Job page:
www.townsendleather.com/job
Townsend Leather is so FULL of love. We work by and with our hearts and it shows all around. Here is just a glimpse of the love and hearts in and around Townsend.
Maybe you’ve seen our “Get a Job You Love ❤️” billboards around, or maybe you’ve been to an Amsterdam Mohawks game and saw Townsend there, or maybe you’ve come across us online somewhere – and you might have wondered what all those icons/stickers/little weirds were.
Each one has a story, a Townsend story.
Townsend’s leadership team is full of award winners, notably 3 distinguished as 40 Under 40 winners, with Tim Becket as the most recent recipient: https://townsendleather.com/2020/lifestyle/40-under-40
For many years, Townsend Leather has continuously won awards for our Team, our culture, and our Leadership – making us the Top Work Place and Best Place To Work: https://townsendleather.com/2020/lifestyle/topworkplace
We believe in our company, in our people, and in our culture. We believe in making it better every day. Awards like these are not necessary, they aren’t something we specifically strive for, but to be recognized for the things that we hold near and dear to our hearts, feels good: https://townsendleather.com/2018/lifestyle/townsend-top-work-place
Be Excellent to Each Other is a credo we gladly live by at Townsend. We are Partners in this together, crafting side by side and continually being excellent, together. You can buy this as a shirt and proudly wear your excellence: www.bonfire.com/be-excellent-to-each-other-2/
Townsend is an equal opportunity employer and is a proud supporter of the HRC and its mission. We are heartfelt intent on balance, growth, and innovation for all, especially those that face marginalization and unfair barriers.
We are Stronger Together. We love our team. So we do everything we can to support one another. We have a “Hides of Hope” Partners supporting Partners system where we can work together to help each other through tough times and celebrate with each other in great times, our Stronger Together shirts even help support our system: https://www.bonfire.com/stronger1609829160together/
We love our Glove Cities community. Which is why are proud to give our around $10,000 in local community support each year. We love hugs and this is one small we we can gift out and hug our community: https://townsendleather.com/contact/hug
Thumbs-ups are the best, right?! We love high-fives, air-high-fives, hugs, and every kind of hand-gesture-celebration! Sometimes we are just feeling thumbs-upy!
We love t-shirts at Townsend! We love to rock and we love shirts. We love to rock so much we made a shirt about it, we love shirts so much, we made a website for them! https://www.townsendleathershirts.com/
Townsend Leather makes the world’s best upholstery leather. We are masters of cowhide, and that is not a brag, it is just a fact. Our team is the world’s best at crafting leather. Our team is cool. This cow is cool, just check out their sunglasses (that’s how you can tell they are cool), everyone at Townsend is always wearing metaphorical sunglasses because they are endlessly cool.
Townsend is also full of goofballs, shirts, leather, and fun. Some of our absolutely legendary Partners are known as the “who what where guys”. And can often be found severing as our own 3 stooges crew: https://youtu.be/u5OCvnLdjMs
At Townsend, we love what we do, we love who we do it for, and we love who we do it with. Everything we do is based on passion and craft. We are a team of thinkers and problem-solvers, innovators, goal-setters, question-askers.
We only seek out doers, action-takers, and awesome people. So, since we look for those things, our team is already staffed with the greatest people in the area. When you join our team, you will be surrounded by the greatest people with the biggest hearts.
We loved being at BDNY this year. The designs, the beauty, the inspiration, and of course the conversations and delving into projects… we love it all.
This year held some much-welcomed optimism for the future of design, with numerous projects kicking off and an overall excitement for what is to come in the world of design. Townsend’s newest leather products, especially a sneak peek of the newest Stacy Garcia (https://samples.townsendleather.com/product_line/stacy-garcia-blue-label-arden-weave-cowhide-sg-ard), were big topics of conversation and many samples were requested.
If you did not get your hands on the samples you desire at BDNY, visit our Sample Store now and build a lightbooth to choose everything you need to make your design dreams come true: https://samples.townsendleather.com/
And whether you got to bask in the design delight of BDNY or not, you can contact us to schedule a tailored leather presentation, just contact us at: info@townsendleather.com and we will coordinate with your local Townsend Leather rep to get a stunning leather presentation in front of you and your team, so you can get your hands and hearts onto everything Townsend has to offer.
We are excited to get face to face with designers and put you all hand to hand with our leathers.
Townsend Leather is looking forward to a few weeks of travel and design, leather and luxury. We will once again be joining the thousands of folks, passionate about the aviation industry at our booth in Las Vegas for NBAA. Visit us to see so much leather, our newest offerings, and to have a drink at our Cocktail Party.
NBAA Booth #1421, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, October 22-24
Little less than a month later, we will be going from the skies to the sky’s the limit designing, with everyone at BD | NY in New York. Where we will be showcasing Stacy Garcia® Blue Label Leathersm brand new offerings, and so much more.
BDNY Booth# 2325, Javits Center, New York, November 10-11
And we will be stretching out from Vegas to Los Angeles through October for a Qunitus Roadshow. Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Palm Desert to connect with designers and leather lovers.
Quintus Roadshow, Las Vegas 10/22, LA 10/24, Palm Desert 10/25
Townsend Leather will be celebrating our 55th anniversary, showcasing beautiful leathers, and highlighting brand new collections at all of these shows. Games, giveaways, leather, and fun can all be expected. If you want to be sure to connect with us at one of these events contact us at info@townsendleather.com
If you will be at NBAA be sure to stop by our Cocktail Party.
in our NBAA booth #1421, on
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23rd
FROM 2-5 PM
Beer, wine, leather, passion, great times, great conversation, games, and more all provided by Townsend Leather.
Townsend Leather Superstars were interviewed in the upcoming Business Aviation Magazine about Townsend’s unique approach and focus on customers and relationship building. We treat everyone as partners, because we are in this together. You can talk to Sherry and get an autograph from her in our NBAA booth.
