Ithaca Sheepskin

Ithaca Sheepskin Handcrafting quality sheepskin garments since 1979

Formed by David Radin in 1979, passed to Mark and Jessica Leonard in 2014, Ithaca Sheepskin perpetuates its tradition of making quality handmade sheepskin garments for generations to come!

1) An Artist's Rendering of The Event2) The clouds were our glasses and our retinas are probably okay3) We have faces, t...
04/09/2024

1) An Artist's Rendering of The Event
2) The clouds were our glasses and our retinas are probably okay
3) We have faces, these are them

The Dad Jokes Department has been hard at work at the Sheep Shop this weekend!
07/02/2022

The Dad Jokes Department has been hard at work at the Sheep Shop this weekend!

Slippers for everyone! In-stock!Open Christmas Eve until 4pm!
12/21/2021

Slippers for everyone! In-stock!

Open Christmas Eve until 4pm!

We get it, you did your best, but you don’t have everything you need. Get a last-minute gift your person will actually e...
12/21/2021

We get it, you did your best, but you don’t have everything you need. Get a last-minute gift your person will actually enjoy for years.

Ithaca Sheepskin is open today, Wednesday & Thursday, 12-6pm, and Christmas Eve until 4pm!

134 E. State Street, Ithaca (in the Ithaca Commons!)

Downtown Ithaca

Gifts they never knew they needed,Now, they will never live without! Order by 4:59 PM December 15 for Christmas delivery...
12/14/2021

Gifts they never knew they needed,
Now, they will never live without!

Order by 4:59 PM December 15 for Christmas delivery!

www.IthacaSheepskin.com

What is older than the wheel, newer than fire, still in regular use, yet completely pointless?A spedung!Mark cannot wait...
10/02/2021

What is older than the wheel, newer than fire, still in regular use, yet completely pointless?

A spedung!

Mark cannot wait to explain his latest and reinvention to you during this lovely



Bringing sheepskin fur mantles back in style! Throw one on your favorite coat, cloak, vest or cardigan so you can be fan...
07/13/2021

Bringing sheepskin fur mantles back in style! Throw one on your favorite coat, cloak, vest or cardigan so you can be fancy as flock!

$20 gift card to whoever gives the most accurate description of what we're up to here. Some exclusions apply*Also, visit...
02/16/2021

$20 gift card to whoever gives the most accurate description of what we're up to here. Some exclusions apply*

Also, visiting the sheep shop and poking around is not cheating, but we're way too busy for tours at the moment...

*Insiders, you know who you are, but you also know better than to spoil the fun 😘 .blue.sky_ this is just Jessica and making an excuse to say "hi!" and tell you that the shop says it still loves you forever.

Seriously, we appreciate it. You all are the best, and we love our Ithaca Sheepskin Family!P.S. Pandemics suck, and slip...
12/09/2020

Seriously, we appreciate it. You all are the best, and we love our Ithaca Sheepskin Family!

P.S. Pandemics suck, and slippers and fleeces definitely count as . Good choice for anyone who needs something cozy and reassuring at the moment. If you know someone who doesn't, please refer them to our research department. We want their secrets.

THIS is what I survived fu***ng for? This? Sitting in an empty shoe warehouse on a Sunday evening, missing my family a...
12/06/2020

THIS is what I survived fu***ng for? This? Sitting in an empty shoe warehouse on a Sunday evening, missing my family and wrangling with a recalcitrant sewing machine?!?!

Yup. It sure is.

Last July, I was diagnosed with

Last August, I underwent a radical hysterectomy. There were some complications, but it seemed to be a success. I demanded
pate and tenderloin from while in the hospital, which was possible in Rochester thanks to I figured I would be plenty recovered to still see the sheep shop through the holidays.

Last September, on the first day I could walk unsupported, I went to Jalaja Bonheim's final Circlework training, and without that massive blessing and the love of those women, I may have fallen apart in October, because...

Last October, I found out that I would have to undergo more treatment, the surgery wasn't as successful as I hoped. I made charts calculating the odds of being alive and if so, enduring certain serious quality of life issues. We were working on a marketing project for the store with and and we had a photoshoot. We managed to look deceptively fantastic. This is because Mark calmed my hysterical crying and efforts to run away from the studio. He did a lot of this, because he is a wonderful man (unfair that he's so good looking, too). I also drove to a few times every week and trained their genius crafters to make our slippers.

In November and December I had chemo and radiation. During this time one of our sons was sick for 10 days, and the other required emergency surgery and required a three day hospital stay, in a different city. I had mouth sores, I vomited, I pooped myself (twice), I was high as hell on the steroid they gave the president, I drove an average of three hours a day to treatments, I was exhausted and scared and it was horrible. I ALSO sat in an unfamiliar bedroom alone and answered your emails, created PDFs of shipping labels to email to the shop, answered phone calls, ordered materials, paid bills, and generally did everything I could to keep this business alive too.

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTWE FOUND THE !!!!It was in the all along.Careful examination by our team of experts has reveal...
12/04/2020

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

WE FOUND THE !!!!

It was in the all along.
Careful examination by our team of experts has revealed that it is full of

This monolith will soon disappear, and reappear in miniature in the homes of folks who know how to treat their feet!

If you are hoping to receive a pair before the winter solstice and the constellation of holidays that has sprung up around it... this is your official warning. You have until

MIDNIGHT ON DECEMBER 10

to order online for holiday gifting. The store is open in a weird pandemic way, and you may still be able to snag a pair after the 10th... we just can't promise it. You ravenous slipper beasts are buying more slippers than ever before. It's like we're wearing them more than usual lately or something...

✔️Obligatory holiday shipping photo tradition

You might notice that
is worming her way into our hearts and our traditions here at the shop... 🧡

WE'RE OPEN! It wasn't easy being closed for 111 days (or 9,590,400 seconds). At least I knew how to pass the time...Did ...
07/03/2020

WE'RE OPEN! It wasn't easy being closed for 111 days (or 9,590,400 seconds). At least I knew how to pass the time...

Did you know that before Ithaca Sheepskin was Ithaca Sheepskin, it was "The Zen Bootist"?!

It's true. Ithaca Sheepskin was founded by a Zen Buddhist priest, Yoshin David Radin. He taught me about sheepskin, of course, but the real learning was watching how he chose to BE, with people and with the craft.

If it wasn't for David, I would think my job was making and selling fabulous hats. We do that here, for sure. My job, however, is the same as what David was doing before I was even a twinkle in someone's eye:

Heeling your soul.
OR
Healing your sole.

Depends on the day, and whether or not you left with a pair of the world's best sheepskin slippers.

Address

950 South Danby Road, Suite 51
Ithaca, NY
14850

Opening Hours

2pm - 6pm

Telephone

+16072770833

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