Leather Love — leathercraft

The Pieces and the People ~ My Leather Art & Leather Work, Bespoke Clothing & Accessories

The Pieces and the People ~ My Leather Art & Leather Work, Bespoke Clothing & Accessories

I Am Lisa Maria Cantalupo and I Make Beautiful Things With Leather ~ Art You Wear!

After two phones had crashed, I found myself scouring through all my Facebook photographs downloading as I went, trying to recover some lost images. As I was scrolling through the years and years and years of creating with leather, I was also reliving the memories that I had captured in these photos. With each image that I had thumbed through, I became more grateful to have had the...


The Story. The Motivation. The Love. Behind the Leather Art and the Artist.

The Story. The Motivation. The Love. Behind the Leather Art and the Artist.

All the images in this video are ones that the extremely talented photographer, Cynthia August, took of me in "my space". By placing all them together, in a video format, tells a story so much more eloquently then viewing them one at a time or reading a collection of words that have been written about me.

The story too is deeper than the obviousness of what I do and what all artists do. The story is about "the how" and "the...