Leatherworking Hats

Leatherworking is a hobby with its own vocabulary and its own economics. On leatherworker.net, newcomers are greeted with "Welcome to the addiction...I mean hobby!" and handed rules like "buy once, cry once" for hand tools. One member put a first belt he could live with at four years and three grand, and another warns that there are no remedies or ointments for leather bug bites. The craft has numbers behind it too: a third-party tracker puts r/Leathercraft near 776,000 members, and the supplier Tandy Leather Factory is publicly traded. These leatherworking hats speak in the bench's own voice. Two plain badges, LEATHERWORKER and LEATHERCRAFT, carry the search terms. The sentence designs come from the craft itself: the saddle stitch that hobby guides call the gold standard of hand stitching, two needles on one thread, the cow that did its part, and the forum reminder that leather is only guaranteed completely waterproof on the original animal. The cow line and the waterproof line each get a second colorway. Research turned up no leatherworker hat carrying a joke line, so this niche looks under-served on hats. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, a straightforward gift for the wallet, belt or holster maker who already has the tools.