Knot & Compass presents
Saltstitch
Handmade leather goods for sailors and weekend hikers. Cut, stitched, and edged by hand in our Cornwall workshop.
Built to outlast the boat.
Full-grain bridle leather, brass hardware, waxed linen thread. Send it back any time we'll fix it.
Bonded leather. Plastic core.
Saddle-Stitched
Two needles, one waxed thread. If a stitch breaks the whole seam holds. A single bench-craftsman makes the whole piece, start to finish.
Lock-Stitched
One broken thread unravels the lot. Made in a factory by ten hands that never see the finished piece.
Commission a piece
Specify what you want made. We'll sketch, quote, and queue it onto the bench.
Workshop queue
On the bench
Bench is clear.
Be the first to commission a piece. Sketches go up here as they're queued.
Field notes from the workshop.
Care guides, restock alerts, and the occasional dispatch from a coastal walk.
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"Six years of saltwater, three Atlantic crossings, and the bifold still snaps shut like the day it arrived. The patina is half the boat's logbook now."
— Skipper · Plymouth
Made in Cornwall
By two benches, both with names
Lifetime warranty
Send it back. We mend it.
Free UK shipping
Boxed in unbleached cotton