Handcrafted. Handmade. In Oregon.
It's the going thing, and it's about time. Reclaiming and reusing. Recycling and industrial waste. Sustainable business practices. Buying locally. It's all about using materials that are available rather than using new materials. It's about finding remnants and creating new, beautiful, useful products for you.
Suppose you own the Big Picture frame store, and your specialty item is a 4’x6’ leather-covered frame. When your frame is finished, that leftover rectangle out of the center of your frame becomes “industrial waste”. Not the most becoming name, is it?
That rectangle is too small for your company but is entirely useful to Oregon Sewn.
Oregon Sewn buys that industrial waste leather and we create our Rainstone and Rhian Design Italian leather products, giving that "waste" a new life.
After we cut all the pattern pieces, we cut 3” squares and save them, too. Those squares will show up later, just like this:
We have saved really small pieces for a long time, and then we’ll find the perfect piece like this one for these Rhian Design piercing tiger eyes:
