Reds Raw Taw Tan

Reds Raw Taw Tan Adam Morrigan (AKA Red) developed his love for leatherwork over many years - initially with traditional leather workers in London, late 1980s onwards. Also learning and working with indigenous and cultural practitioners globally. He went on to tutor for Ruskin Mill College in Gloucestershire - holding courses demonstrations and lectures on the processes and principals of leatherwork from the source material to finely finished products.

Focus:

Traditional hand craft leather work, Micro Tanner, Bespoke, Commissioned, Individual Design, Sourced and Sustainable Heritage Craft Processes

Commissions:

Available for commissions

Making leather and making works from leather is a composition of precise, highly skilled crafts, many of which are critically endangered in the UK. The process is tactile, lending itself to an emotional connection with the materials origin informing the finished piece. Industrial methods, are uniform, alienating, monotonous, boring and environmentally damaging. Red sources locally, producing oak tan, tawed leather, parchment, velum and rawhide. To produce, unique, handcrafted, high-end products