The Museum of Leathercraft | Northampton

Here is some footage that never made it to my episode of BBC1’s Make It at Market (Series 2, episode 12).
We were incredibly lucky to be one of the last to see the Museum of Leathercraft before everything gets packed away into storage :(
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[@erykfreethinker7147]

Hi Dani
Best wishes from myself and my good lady to you both for a happy, prosperous, fulfilled New Year.
This film has been wonderful, we wish the museum was nearer! I remember when so much was leather before plastics came to the fore and I had the loan of a leather trunk at school with some seascape carvings above the hinges and lock areas - maybe an old seafarer had it - there was the smell of an old seafarer inside LOL
My early shoes had cardboard soles and my first leather ones were a luxury but then, suitcases were made of cardboard with sometimes a lincrusta lining. The cardboard was so cleverly made to look like leather!
Those tools will have been made with such a better tool steel than we can get today - the paring knives will have kept a sharp edge for quite a time.
We have enjoyed so much seeing you on Ep 2 of series 2 of Make it for Market [wrong title - sorry!] So good to see you make that bracelet. I had fun with a strip of vinyl making a Mystery Braid a few years ago. You provided really wonderful entertainment and education as did the calligrapher. Cutting back and forthe between you both was awkward but I watched the programme several times! As I am not a televiewer I never knew about this series.
Thank you so much Dani for uploading this and also telling us about the TV programmes. :-)

[@erykfreethinker7147]

Heartbreaking news in the last few minutes of this film. What a loss to the nation. I wish there could be a national craft museum which gave the public an exposition of handcrafting with leather, wood, metal, ceramics etcetera. There are so many old cotton mills that could be used. The will to sustain collections of excellence should not centre on money alone.
We need to question our values.