<p>A collection of leather working tools including about 100 punches Freeman uses most often. All total he has more than 300 punches. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p> <p>Stan Freeman adds dye to a ...
He was 11 years old. He lived in Niamey, the capital of Niger. And he'd never had a chance to go to school. "Education in my country sucks," he says. So he played soccer on the streets. Then he had an ...
Many times, the roots of creative endeavors sprout by happenstance. For Chris Howard, 38, of Grand Rapids, the process involved Renaissance re-enactment and a Japanese comic book character. His ...
Zhang Renbing poses with his handmade leather products at his studio in Heze, East China's Shandong Province on February 17. Photo: IC Zhang's eldest son shows off one of his father's bags shaped like ...
Steve Doudaklian is a fourth-generation craftsman, a leather repair artist who has seen it all -- an array of shoes that would make Imelda Marcos jealous, motorcycle jackets, old steamer trunks and a ...
He was 11 years old. He lived in Niamey, the capital of Niger. And he'd never had a chance to go to school. "Education in my country sucks," he says. So he played soccer on the streets. Then he had an ...