About Us

At Grommets Leathercraft, we offer a variety of quality leather goods designed with functionality in mind.

About Us

At Grommets Leathercraft, we offer a variety of quality leather goods designed with functionality in mind.

Custom LeatherWORK

Grommet’s Leathercraft was born from the cutlery, martial arts, and reenactment communities. We’ve been crafting high quality leather goods since 2006.

We create products you can trust, we also offer more customizable options with faster production than other shops.

From keeping your pants up to holding things down, we make functional goods that you’ll want to show off.

All of our goods are made by hand rather than mass produced by machines. As a result of hand making our goods, slight differences between items, as well as aesthetic imperfections should be expected.

We take great pride in supplying quality gear, so if any imperfections are found that affect the functionality of the product, we will do our best to rectify the situation.

We now have a retail storefront in Riverside California where you can shop our in stock items, order your custom items in person, bring your item in for alterations, or have your knives and tools sharpened.

Shop members

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Allen
Owner, Creator, Designer

Allen was the head leatherworker at Grommet’s Cutlery starting in 2006, expanding officially as Grommets Leathercraft in 2014. Most items in the shop were designed by, or with the assistance of Allen.

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Matt
Kydexsmith, Leathersmith, Creator

Matt is about 15 hot dogs tall. He started making kydex sheaths in February 2018. Not long after that he started making the leather sheaths, and is now in charge of all pocket slips, gun gear, and wallets.

Cathy
Apprentice, production Assistant

Cathy started with Grommets Leathercraft in February 2024. Almost immediately she became the strap master, clicker press guru, leather dye savant, and all around faire prep wizard.

Cecilia
Faire Booth Crew

Formerly the manager of Grommet’s Knife & Carry, and now the owner/operator of Ceci’s sharpening. Look for Ceci at our busiest events, when our normal crew can’t handle the pressure and we need to call in the big guns to help us out.

Hayley
Photography/Social Media/Office Manager

Hayley has been adjacent to Grommets leathercraft since childhood, but officially joined the team as the photographer and social media manager in December of 2023. If you like the photos you see, and enjoy our social media content, thank Hayley.

Former Shop Members

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Griffin
Apprentice, Production Assistant

Griffin started with Grommets Leathercraft in October 2021. He was thrown into the deep end helping with kydex production and then expanded to suspenders, bags, aprons, and whatever else we threw his way. In July of 2024 Griffin disappeared into the foothills of San Bernardino, never to be seen again.

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Rigo
Apprentice, Production Assistant

Rigo worked at Grommets Leathercraft from 2021-2023. He was the first apprentice hired exclusively to GL not having worked in the cutlery store beforehand. Rigo quickly became the strap production master, and then moved on to oversee all leather armor production and wood core scabbard production before leaving the company at the beginning of 2024 because his cat was jealous of all the time he was spending with us.

Aleah
Apprentice, Production Assistant

Aleah worked at GL from 2020-2021. They started as a sales employee at Grommets Knife & Carry before coming over to GL to help with straps and general leather prep. They came to GL full time in the summer of 2020 and quickly became the suspender champion before leaving the company in late 2021