MacGregor & Michael | Leather Workers | The Gloucestershire Guild Of Craftsmen
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Neil MacGregor and Valerie Michael began their leather working careers in Bristol in 1971, moving out to Tetbury, in 1974.
They make a range of men's and women's bags, luggage, belts, cases, wallets, purses using only the best quality vegetable-tanned leathers sourced from the UK and Europe. Their designs aim to reveal the unique qualities of leather and the value of craftsmanship. Over the years they have fine-tuned their skills through a combination of experience, experimentation and research.
Always willing to explore challenging design ideas, everything is made by hand, including the stitching. Each piece is individually made to the highest standards of craftsmanship using leathers, threads and metal fittings which compliment the work.
Neil & Valerie often work with customers on commissioned pieces. They are currently working with the shoemaker, Caroline Groves, on some beautiful bags which can be seen at www.carolinegroves.co.uk
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Very talented people. I have Valerie's book. Excellent as well.
My complaint with this and other videos: Why is the music necessary. Unless you have super clean audio and excellent mixing, the music takes away from the enjoyment of the talking and makes it hard to discern many times. I would give this video 5 stars if no music. With the music it drops to a 3 star rating.
Keep up the otherwise great work, Neil and Valerie.
...totally *love* all these videos from TGGoC! Very calming and informative. They show nice people being nice and doing nice things - now this might seem a trivial observation - a facetious remark even - that isn't in any way helpful. However, I mean it. The world is chock-a-block full of not very nice people, all in a hurry, trying their best to make a quick buck and push&pull anyone who'll listen into their way of thinking. These pleasant and unhurried craftspeople are quite the reverse. Thank Goodness! Happy Days, everybody :-)
I love guys, you do beautiful work, I also always recommend your book to my students greetings from Berlin
what a lovely couple this is why i love the craft
Those bowls just blew my mind!
Fascinating. Quality and dedication - always admirable!
Enjoyed every bit of this video. The background music, the passion in the couple's voice, and the beautiful work is just amazing. Thank you.
Love and peace from Tanzania.
Beautiful work !
would love to visit your workshop, looks so interesting. you are both clearly passionate about your beautiful work.
beautiful people, beautiful items x
What a very intriguing and impressive workshop! Really admire your dedication and passion for leather craftsmanship. Keep up the good work!
Beautiful Russian leather find. . Love your channel.
A very nice video, I just recently purchased The Leatherworking Handbook by Valerie Michael, an excellent book.
Wow
the work you do is beautiful absolutely gorgeous ,thanks for the video. I have a question if i have a new purse like ,large leather shoulder bag.and the leather is not treated at all.do i apply some people say saddle soap on it.or do you use something like a goose grease to treat it from drying and if it gets a little rain.it cow hide i assume .what to do please let me know.? thank you again.
It's very, very romantic video. Very nice people and good Craftsmen. Thanks!
Impressive indeed, but turn of the music so one can hear the talking better.
Music too loud!!
Как Вы выживаете таким ручным трудом ? Налоговая Вас не третирует , пожарники не наведываются , санстанция не беспокоит , котлонадзор не охраняет и т.д. ????????