Ting London has what appears to be an awesome way to repurpose and recycle old leather belts.
TING’s luxury leather flooring, is a new re-working of vintage leather belts to create a beautiful, glossy and hardwearing surface. Available by the square foot, the subtly patterned attractive material is also suitable for table and bar tops, walls and feature areas, as well as floors.
Each belt is hand selected to ensure a high grade of leather and then the belts are stripped of their metals, hand cleaned with chemical free substances and prepared for use. The vintage belts for each tile are carefully designed in-house as the colour and patterning on the belts is sensitive to each tile. This means no two tiles will ever be the same.
It’s a classy look that’s super unique (and probably super expensive). At the very least it would make for a cool area rug.
(Ting via In Stash)
When nine hundred years you reach, look so much like leather you will not.
This sturdy leather bag is “small, green, and mighty.” Just like Yoda. The leather is hand dyed and tooled. At a 19″ diameter, you can use this bag for much more than carrying lipstick. You could fit a camera, gaming gear, Star Wars action figures, or lots of comics in this barrel shaped purse (or man bag).
Product Page ($110)
If you have some extra cash floating around and you want to get a jump start on Halloween, check out Epic Leather. They’ve got some crazy ass leather masks going on, like the Stormtrooper biker helmet we featured previously and this epic Dragon King leather helm.
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Wallet empty? Well, the embossed leather QWERTY keyboard wallet is a reminder that you need to apply yourself at work to make the big bucks. Either that, or it’s a reminder that you buy way to many computer games and apps.
If you wear QWERTY flip flops, well then—you just have bizarre taste in clothes.
For workaholics, there’s a well-known message inside that should put things into perspective: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”.
Product Page ($58)
I don’t think this leather, steampunk-style Stormtrooper motorcycle mask would do much to protect you in the event of a crash, but bugs and wind would be no problem. Just don’t ride your motorcycle like a Scout Trooper rides a speeder bike—into trees.
This Original Riding Mask is hand crafted and molded from sturdy 8/9 oz Veg Tan Leather. The black leather behind the grill is softer 5oz Oiled Leather. The leather has been sealed to provide some water resistance. Lined on the inside is foam with suede leather wrapped around to provide comfort and protection during your ride, as well as an adjustable strap to fit to your face. Unlike many other masks, the strap is riveted into place with high quality 5 oz Leather and Buckle, so you don’t have to worry about tying or undoing any knots. One size fits most and being as it is made from leather there is some flexibility.
Product Page ($200 via Technabob)
Sadly, these cuffs only come in the Tolkien and Cummings quotes. I was hoping for:
HULK SMASH!!—Hulk
On the plus side, you can remove the plate and attach your own accessories to the hooks.
Product Page ($40)
I have to admit, I have been less than thrilled with most of the iPod nano watch straps that have been flooding the market recently, but that all changed with Elecom’s outdoorsy new leather strap. They come in black and brown versions that run ¥3570 or about $42.
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You’re looking at the world’s oldest leather shoe, 5,500 years old to be exact, shockingly well preserved because it was covered in sheep dung inside an Armenian cave.
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This GBT Steampunk leather mask with its built in loudspeaker does a great job representing Bob Basset’s other works of weirdness, some of which are for sale through his website. This new design in particular looks like it could be the mask of a 19th century super villain known as “Victrola Man” who uses the hiss and pop recordings of the early 1900s as his calling card.
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