Buoyed by a childhood dream of riding her horse cross country, in 2010, musician Linny Kenney set off with her Arabian, Sojourner, on an eight-and-a-half month, 3,700-mile journey from Los Angeles to her hometown of Bath, New Hampshire. Ahead of the trip, she used her stepfather’s leather-working tools to create custom tack for her mare and a guitar strap for herself. After posting photos to her blog, friends began asking her to craft pieces for them. “I made things when I could during the ride,” she says. “And the business kept organically growing.”
So, too, did Linny’s product line, which now includes oven mitts, knife rolls, aprons, tote bags, and more. Most pieces are stitched from naturally tanned full-grain Italian leather, and sometimes hand-decorated with acrylic paint or pyrography.
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