About the service
I run a small leather workshop specializing in one narrow craft: dice pouches, counter wallets and small gaming sacks for tabletop and role-playing players who want something better than a drawstring bag from a mass retailer. Every order starts with a conversation about what you actually carry — a single set of polyhedral dice, a full collection with extras, chips, miniatures or a folded character sheet — and the pattern is drafted around that, not the other way around.
Leather sourcing is where most of the quality difference happens before a single stitch goes in. I hand-pick vegetable-tanned hides for pouches that need to hold shape and develop a patina, and softer chrome-tanned or oil-tanned skins for pieces that must stay supple and quiet when dice roll around inside. Hardware gets the same attention: brass or nickel snap closures for a quick, confident click, waxed cotton or braided leather drawstrings with cord locks or bone toggles for a pouch that cinches shut and stays shut in a bag.
Interior lining is not an afterthought. A rough or unfinished inner surface chips paint off hand-painted miniatures and dulls printed numbers over time, so linings are chosen and, where needed, felted or suede-finished to protect what you carry. Seams are hand-stitched with waxed thread using a saddle stitch, which holds even if one thread is nicked — unlike a single machine line that can unravel from one cut. I can also add a hand-tooled or embossed initial, symbol, house crest or campaign emblem on the flap or base as a personal touch.
Typical turnaround runs five to twenty business days depending on complexity, tooling detail and whether hardware needs to be custom-sourced. I send progress photos before final assembly so you can confirm color, closure feel and sizing while changes are still easy to make. If you play regularly and are tired of a bag that squeaks, splits at the seam or loses dice through a broken zipper, this is built to outlast that problem.
Leather sourcing is where most of the quality difference happens before a single stitch goes in. I hand-pick vegetable-tanned hides for pouches that need to hold shape and develop a patina, and softer chrome-tanned or oil-tanned skins for pieces that must stay supple and quiet when dice roll around inside. Hardware gets the same attention: brass or nickel snap closures for a quick, confident click, waxed cotton or braided leather drawstrings with cord locks or bone toggles for a pouch that cinches shut and stays shut in a bag.
Interior lining is not an afterthought. A rough or unfinished inner surface chips paint off hand-painted miniatures and dulls printed numbers over time, so linings are chosen and, where needed, felted or suede-finished to protect what you carry. Seams are hand-stitched with waxed thread using a saddle stitch, which holds even if one thread is nicked — unlike a single machine line that can unravel from one cut. I can also add a hand-tooled or embossed initial, symbol, house crest or campaign emblem on the flap or base as a personal touch.
Typical turnaround runs five to twenty business days depending on complexity, tooling detail and whether hardware needs to be custom-sourced. I send progress photos before final assembly so you can confirm color, closure feel and sizing while changes are still easy to make. If you play regularly and are tired of a bag that squeaks, splits at the seam or loses dice through a broken zipper, this is built to outlast that problem.
