JAMIN LEATHER®

The Brand

It was 1990 when Jamin Leather® changed the business name from Jamie’s Leather with upwards of 4 locations in operation at that time in upstate New York. And finally in 2022, Jamin Leather® was awarded the trademark by the USPTO. The name change was 5 years before our proliferation on the internet and 3 years before our first print catalog.

When Jamin Leather® made it to the internet in the summer of 1995 before any other leather retailer. We became a world wide internet sensation. Even making an impact at trade shows with a Jamin Leather® name tag and everyone trying to stop us and get our attention. In 1995 we had upwards of 90 internet pages and and estimate of 800 products available to shop with a working shopping cart. 

Jamin Leather® brand and products has been viewed by millions all around the world, even to this day. Since the inception of the internet, everything has changed. From kids in their basement learning how to sell without inventory, to competing with our suppliers and china. Not to mention, internet searches filling up with a large majority of fake leather products. And what Jamin Leather® has learned over the 3 decades is that Brick and Mortar is and will remain to be the most valuable asset for the leather apparel industry. There is not a lot of leather apparel retailers out there that know how to do it right but Jamin Leather® is definitively one of the top contenders. It’s all about fit, fashion, touch and smell… you can’t get online!

In 1975, the future entrepreneur started making leather belts, bags and wallets for family and friends. Soon after, with mom’s persistence, sold products at his first craft show that summer. Only to expand to weekend flea markets, state fairs and even a spot on the side of the road in Vermont one summer. Feeling ambitious in 1978, Jamie’s Leather Workshop produced a black and white print catalog with extremely limited distribution. It was an ambitiously unsuccessful attempt to  distribute through craft shows, state fairs and flea markets with all his hand crafted leather products. Then in 1993 after a few long years of opening and closing several locations decided to try again with a full color print catalog. That first color edition, though limited production, was granted a listing in the “Best Catalogs Of The World”. From that point forward, Jamin Leather® skyrocketed into mail order stardom.

Made in USA! Even to this day Jamin Leather® has a sewing staff producing quite a few popular and exclusive hand made items still being sold today. Amongst the popular products we make include boot chains, doggie leather jackets, g-strings, thongs, halters, vest extenders, pouches, scarves, purses, arm and wristbands and so much more. Though much of this stuff can be made overseas, Jamin Leather® insists on keeping as much home made products available ad part of our inventory. 

So in summation, if you know anyone who has ever shopped leather on the internet in the past 30 or so years, Jamin Leather® was there. A brand that is well known to some and familiar to most, giving you, the next next Jamin Leather® franchise owner a preempted boost toward your entrepreneurial success with our brand.