A Small Price Change (And Why)

I wanted to write this myself, because it didn’t feel right to hide behind a polished announcement.

We’re increasing all of our items by $10 USD.

That’s it. No tricks, no tiers, just a flat change across everything.

The honest reason is simple: it’s getting more expensive to keep this workshop running the way we believe it should be run.

A big part of it is transport. Getting leather and supplies moved through Europe and into the UK just costs more than it used to. There’s more paperwork, more handling, more little fees that didn’t exist before — and they don’t show up all at once, but they stack up quietly in the background.

Then there’s the materials themselves. Not just the leather, but everything around it — dyes, finishes, waxed thread, packaging, all the small things that go into each piece. None of it has gotten cheaper.

We held off as long as we could.

Because the truth is, it’s easy to keep prices the same if you start cutting corners. Use slightly worse leather. Skip a step. Rush the stitching. Most people wouldn’t notice right away.

But that’s not how we want to do this.

Every piece we make still goes across the same bench, gets the same time, the same attention, the same way of doing things that got us here in the first place. And if we want to keep it that way, the numbers have to make sense.

So this $10 increase isn’t about growing margins or “optimizing pricing.”
It’s about keeping the workshop alive, and keeping the work honest.

If you’ve supported us before — thank you. That genuinely means something to us.

And if you’re new here, just know this: what you’re getting isn’t mass-produced. It’s made by hand, start to finish, by people who actually care about how it turns out.

We’re going to keep it that way.

—  Greg Walker, on behalf of the Walker family at Rustic Terrain Leathercraft.