The name is a pun. "Pierre" means Peter in French. My Chinese friends started calling me "皮先森" — literally "Mr. Leather" — and it stuck. I'm a leather artisan. That's all I do.
I discovered leather crafting almost by accident. Walking through a narrow street in France, I passed a workshop. An old man sat at a wooden bench, glasses perched on his nose, stitching a wallet by hand. The tools around him had handles polished smooth by decades of use. I stood there for ten minutes, watching. That image never left me.
I bought my first set of tools the next week. Made a terrible wallet. Then a slightly less terrible one. Then one that someone actually wanted to buy.
Today I work from a small studio near the South Gate (Nanmenli) in Xi'an. The setup is simple: a workbench, good tools, good leather, and silence. Every piece that leaves this studio is made by these two hands — cut, skived, punched, stitched, and edge-finished, one at a time.
Good leather doesn't need decoration. Italian vegetable-tanned leather from Tuscany, Japanese shell cordovan, Siamese crocodile — these materials are already beautiful. My job is not to cover them up, but to shape them into something you'll use every day.
Handmade is not a marketing word. It's a process. Saddle stitching means every stitch is independent. If one thread breaks, the rest hold. Machine stitching can't say that. Edge finishing takes 4-5 layers of paint, sanding, and polishing — not one quick pass. That's why a handmade wallet lasts 20 years.
Small batch is the sweet spot. I'm not a factory. But I can make 50 keychains with your company logo in 10 days. Corporate gifts, wedding favors, brand merchandise — all handcrafted, all consistent.
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Studio: South Gate, Xi'an, China · Ships worldwide