Anomaly Leathers

27/08/2024

Winging their way to you today Amy xx

23/06/2023

Fresh kicks now in at Atelier Crafers

18/03/2023

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17/03/2023

Something very special coming together… !

03/01/2023

Slowly but surely getting stock made.. fresh kicks for the new year ♥️ These are the last of the orange leather. Summer beauties. I’m available for customs, get in touch!

06/04/2022

Some dear friends sent a bunch of love Anomaly’s way today, and what a day for it. My fam is still in isolation, recovering from a rough week of ilness. My smallest needed some slippers for the season - having already decided today was the day, I popped the love in my pocket and dragged my weary bones out to the studio. Some very special sheepskin booties resulted, and were even slept in 🥰

Special mention to Dad who dressed her in the flower leggings before seeing the shoes.

10/06/2021

Outside.. inside! These never to be repeated snuggs are made with re-treasured coney (rabbit) fur, and the last of my much treasured purple lamb leather stash. Absolutely one of a kind. They are silky soft, and light as a feather. I want them on my feet!

29/03/2021

The only sunflowers our garden has seen this year.. delicious 🥰

07/12/2020

Fresh stock in at Atelier Crafers - b.y.o baby!

11/09/2020

Hullo!! I’m still here ♥️ these gorgeous wee possum fur booties met their new owner today. SO.CUTE.

16/05/2020

Oh this is beautiful.. I’m looking forward to picking up the tools again very soon ♥️

“When we put those long efforts into bringing beauty into the world, we are honouring that which made us by creating as we have been created. We are taught to respect the slow, attentive piecing together of the life we yearn for. Stitch by stitch, we apprentice the craft. We work in tandem with mystery, feeling its rhythms awaken in our bone-memory. As the hands work, the mind is stilled and a greater listening is engaged as we drop down into the deep rhythm of devotion, where the whole world is in communion. The ferns unfurl, the daffodils trumpet, the rosebuds fatten, and the song of creation can be heard.

Handwork also teaches us the patience required to make a life materialize. There are no shortcuts, and it can’t be done cheaply or en masse. The work is small, the work is slow, and all we can do is stay with it. As Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés says, “the shortcut, the easy way, always falls apart. Then one returns to the handmade life. One has to pick it up painfully, and piece it back together, holding the overall pattern in one’s mind, but working patiently, piece by piece."

Toko-pa Turner, Excerpt From: “Belonging.” (belongingbook.com)

Artwork by Matthew Forsythe (http://www.comingupforair.net/)