Get Sh*t Done!
Content warning: Strong Language ahead. Get Shit Done It is a bold statement. Not one for everyone, not one for every situation, but a statement embodied wholly by Townsend… Full Aritcle
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Get Shit Done
It is a bold statement. Not one for everyone, not one for every situation, but a statement embodied wholly by Townsend Leather Partners.
The ‘Get Shit Done’ ideology is not flippant, or casual, or offensive – it is a heartfelt full-in proclamation of taking action, with mind, body, and heart. Going all-in with passion and thought, not giving up until it is complete. That is who Townsend is, that is what we are made of. We have been lovingly passionate about our Get Shit Done attitude for years, as you can see in this quick lookback-video of “GSD” photos from days gone by (maskless photos are from pre-pandemic).
Get it done.
Get it done best.
Get it done right.
You have to be smart, quick, and effective in order to Get Shit Done.
You have to be thoughtful, patient, and responsible to Get Shit Done.
You can’t just do shit, you have to get it done, get it done right, get it done better, get it done best. That is what Townsend Leather Partners do and is why we can wear this bold statement shirt with pride.
Our most popular and iconic shirt is now available to purchase:
https://www.bonfire.com/get-shit-done-4/
When you do buy one, you get to support Townsend Leather Partners-in-need at the same time. The sale of these shirts helps to fund our ever-in-need, ‘Hides of Hope’ Partner support system, funded by Townsend Leather Partners for Townsend Leather Partners.
These shirts have been requested and worn by Townsend Leather fans, Partners, and customers across the entire globe.
The phrase ‘Get Shit Done’ has become synonymous with Townsend Leather’s work ethic – a team of people dedicated to getting the job done right no matter what is needed. Surpassing customer’s expectations, overcoming every obstacle, and doing the necessary work with pride and passion.
You can ‘get shit done’ in your work, while showing it off to the world, supporting Townsend Leather Partners, and maybe you will find your own bit of Townsend magic to inspire you in your day to create awesome, make it happen, and get it done.
If you want to join a team that takes pride in our work and is comfortable making big claims and bold words, join us by applying:
www.townsendleather.com/job Job Opportunities
Townsend Leather’s Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide
Townsend Leather manufactures each Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide leather hide from start to finish, which means we control the process, the quality, and the environmental impact.
Townsend is passionate about creating a positive environmental impact.
It is important to us to craft products, like Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide, that create a positive environmental impact by being re-useable, repairable, long-lasting, and low-VOC. Each hide is made to the highest of quality and environmental standards with attention and care.
Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide starts as an inherently green product by removing something from the waste stream and transforming it into a reusable, repairable, highest-of-quality, long-lasting, beautiful product. No animal in Townsend Leather’s sourcing is taken for the hide; every hide that Townsend Leather uses is a by-product of meat production.
We have complete control over the production of Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide and are able to produce this leather without the use of any dangerous chromes.
Photograph of the Diep Sleep System by Euler Products featuring Townsend Leather’s, Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide.
Photograph of the Diep Sleep System by Euler Products featuring Townsend Leather’s, Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide.
Photograph of the Diep Sleep System by Euler Products featuring Townsend Leather’s, Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide.
Photographs of the Diep Sleep System by Euler Products featuring Townsend Leather’s, Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide.
Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide, being made of the finest leather in the world and with its luxurious pebble pattern, allows it to be supremely suitable to repair. Perfectly Pebbled Cowhide will last a lifetime because of its ability to be repaired and its ability to withstand aggressive cleaning and wear.
Covid-19 has impacted all parts of the design and leather industries, and some of those impacts are pilling up to create unique challenges. One of those being, changes to workflow within the process and the workflow from the supply chain.
Over the next couple of weeks, it is possible some orders will be delayed. Throughout the circuitry that keeps the Townsend Leather leather-loving-machine running at full speed, we have seen unprecedented disruptions. Shipping carriers and raw material suppliers have had weeks delays in processing material and providing it along. Our team has been facing their own challenges with a handful of close cases at our door, we took extra precautions for our team’s utmost health and safety. Many of our team took time to quarantine at home, out of an effort to take every step we can at ‘stopping the spread’ and keeping everyone safe. We took extra time for cleaning and care of our facility and put the time and brainpower into setting ourselves up for success when the usual flow returns.
We have been heartfeltidly focused on health, safety, and forward-thinking. These times call for action, but we have always aimed to think bigger and further than just reaction. We think of what’s next and build to that. So while many pieces are out of our control, we turn our energy to what we can control and make the strongest action and best steps forward there.
Because of disruptions to our workflow and material flow, we may have a couple of weeks delays in processing orders, but you can be assured when they arrive they will have been poured over by our team. They will be some of the most love-crafted orders we have ever made.
We love what we do, we are ready and poised to get crafting at full capacity again.
We will be restructuring our team’s schedule to create a continuous flow of work at hand, working hard and smart in overtime.
Even through setbacks, we find success, we find opportunity, we find we can rely on our love for leather, design, and working as a team to get us through.
As always, we have In-Stock leather on our shelves ready for your designs. So if speed is of critical importance, browse our vast selection of in-stock leathers to find what we can ship you right now.
If you have any questions about your order or an order you hope to place in the next couple of weeks, contact us: info@townsendleather.com Because we ARE the manufacturer, there is almost always a solution we can custom-craft for your needs.
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.
We aim, to be defined, by being Partners, together.
And we sincerely thank you for joining us in partnership during this time.
– Townsend Leather
– Townsend Leather
Kindness Matters
In a month of love, we are taking a step back and focusing in on a slice of love, Kindness. Kindness is being friendly, generous, and considerate. It is not really about big epic moments, sometimes it is the fact that the action was so small which makes it impactful. Some tiny act of kindness could easily be skipped over and no one would ever notice if you don’t do it – no one would say anything. So the fact that it is unasked for and unexpected – is what makes it so huge.
One way Townsend is taking kindness action is spreading kindness throughout our team and our community. We are placing extra focus on our usual random acts of kindness through February, looking for and sharing stories of the everyday kindness moments that make such a difference in our lives. But we also are putting collective kindness effort into supporting our local Code Blue Shelter program.
The Code Blue Shelter provides services and shelter to our local homeless community whenever temperatures drop below 32 degrees. The shelter also provides hot showers, clothing, blankets, toiletry kits, snack foods, water, and juice on-site. It is all volunteer-run and needs community support to stay available, which is critical for our area as we have had days and days of frigid temperatures in the low ‘teens.
Our team has set up contactless collections sites around our facility where everyone and anyone can help us collect needed items, which we will donate to the Code Blue program. We are collecting everything from baby wipes, chap-stick, and toilet paper, to socks, gloves, and used coats. If you have any questions or want to help, reach out to our kindness-organizers Gabby, Kayla, Pamela, and Carrie. info@townsendleather.com
In this time and in this weather, kindness can do more than just warm a heart – these simple acts of kindness in collecting items for our fellow humans in need can warm hands and feet and souls.
Our warming kind acts this month spill over into leather and design as well as we celebrate the warm and elegant hues of February winter, warms fireplaces, chocolate, and love – enchanting reds, deep maroons, blush pinks, and glamourous golds draw people together and stimulate conversation.
We hope you will join us, this month, in spreading kindness to those around you – near or far. Share with us your Random Acts of Kindness by tagging us on Instagram and using #TownsendLeather. Kindness often costs nothing but means everything to those who receive it.
We also love to look back on love, take a stroll in the wayback machine with us to see past celebrations of love and February. Like these two posts of color and leather:
Or a couple of past giveaways Valentine’s Day celebrations
(try your loving luck and see if you can still get a prize by following the directions :) )
Or just dig into some past love, love for our region and of course, LOVE OF LEATHER…
And of course, when you need a beautiful place to rest your eyes with your love of leather, visit this link to find a downloadable desktop image:
https://townsendleather.com/20-21
From the Albany Business Review:
https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2020/12/09/townsend-leather.html
6 Best Places to Work wins
What’s something interesting about your company that most people don’t know?
Any celebrity with a private jet, any musician with a fancy tour RV, any jet-setter in a high-end hotel, any regular person with New Balance shoes is almost definitely touching leather on the seats or their feet that was hand-crafted by leather experts from Townsend Leather.
What are the biggest wins or accomplishments for your company over the past year?
The biggest win is that we have been able to not just maintain but to thrive through all of this. We had to shut down, we had to lay off some employees, we lost money and time …but we came back. We now have all our employees back, we are running at full capacity, we have new projects and new customers. We had team members suffer unreal challenges, but the rest of the team came together in support and lifted them up. We have not had anyone get sick and have found a sense of pride in our new cleaning practices, daily health assessments, temp checks, and all the many steps we are taking to keep everyone safe. It is not a chore to endure, but rather a point of pride and success.
The biggest win is that we have been able to see who we truly are. Who our team truly is, and the sight of it, through all the pain, uncertainty, and struggles was beautiful. Our team is care-filled, focused on each other, focused on building for the future — together. Last year with our 50th-anniversary celebrations and all the fun and excitement of opening a new building we got to see who we are at our best — fun, joyful, high-fiving, community-driven … This past year, we got to see who we are at our worst, and it was humbling and wonderful to see that we are a team that can withstand challenges, and in fact thrive through them with our family-like attitude of togetherness and heart.
A Link Extravaganza!
As a way to look back on our 2020 at Townsend Leather, we offer this quick lookbook of sorts, a glance at some significant shares of Townsend’s from our 2020 year… a PDF bursting with information and beauty at what we do and who we are.
In this clickable photomag, you will see a message from our President Jared Eckler, some New Product Launches like our Into the Wild Mini Collection and new Manchester In-Stock, a peek into the beauty of our Instagram account, a nod to the many new capabilities we have refined this year (Digital Printing, Quilting, Laser Etching, Enhanced Embossing…) as well as the many new machines and improvements we’ve made throughout our buildings and processes. You’ll also get to see even more of who we are through our library of YouTube Videos, awards, and Facebook fun. And of course, through the craziness of our collective 2020, we have still been finding ways to keep our Socially Distant Social Club active, and you’ll see all the shared items here, from recipes to books. It’s been a strange and full year, incredibly difficult in many ways, but beautiful and wonderful in others.
Join us on this little clickable trek through the past few months. And again, thank you.
View in our PDF viewer below, or click here to download.
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A Gift To You
Desktop and Mobile Backgrounds
We hope to spread joy and inspiration as we make your digital workspace even more beautiful with custom-crafted computer desktop backgrounds. A leathery image to serve as a place for you to rest your eyes, and stare off into, while contemplating your complicated work.
To get the full-size image:
- CLICK on the image below ↓ (desktop or mobile version)
then - RIGHT-CLICK on the image that opens in your new tab
- and SELECT “SAVE IMAGE AS”.
- Now the image is on your computer and ready for you to set it as your desktop image.
For any Technical/Download questions or issues, email us at:
Townsend.Leather@gmail.com
For any product, Townsend, leather, samples, just-want-to-chat… questions or issues, email us at:
info@townsendleather.com
Computer Desktop Background:
Mobile Background:
Townsend Leather has been focused on feeling thankful for a while now, and this week gives us even more reason to feel all the love, joy, and thanks that is bubbling inside of the collective us.
We recently got word that we have once again been acknowledged as a Best Place To Work for 2020 by Albany Business Review (more to come on that soon :) ).
But, even more important than awards, we are endlessly thankful that we get to do the work we do. That we get to work with the people we do. That we get to work with and for the customers we do.
Especially this year, we are thankful that through smart planning, careful attention, and an incredible team of dedicated Partners, we are growing.
We are open. We are staying open and we are strong.
As the pandemic rages on, we know how important it is to keep everyone safe, healthy, and keep things moving forward. We are thankful we have been able to get equipment, PPE, and new procedures in place and have them nearly perfected through months of routine now. We are thankful that we have been able to utilize the talents and passions of our team to make sure that we are keeping ourselves and our community safe, doing great work, and putting ourselves in a position where we are actually growing.
Townsend Leather is hiring as we grow for the future.
We are looking forward to growth over the coming months as we have invested in new machinery and are always putting effort to continuously improve our process and products. 2021 looks to be a big year for us as we take on new projects and push out even greater crafted leathers. We are looking right now, to grow our team by a large handful of awesome Partners, and we know that is a unique position to be in through all that is going on this year.
So, this season, we look to spread joy. Joy for the future, joy for the things we have overcome, joy for the challenges we know we will face – but can do so with the support of each other. Joy to you, our customers, families, fans, and friends. Because of you, we are able to come to work each day and do the craft we love. We are able to make the world’s finest upholstery and shoe leather with passion, because of the people we do it with and the people we do it for. So, thank you!
Thank you.
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