Would You Trust This Man?
Of course you would. This is Allin, one of Renaissance Art’s amazing employees. We’re a small group here, so each and every one of us plays a big part, and since Allin’s arrival in mid-September, 2007, he has immediately become an invaluable member of the family.
Allin has a varied background, with extensive experience in metalwork. For the last five years, he has worked at a manufacturer for hand tools for wood workers; from being a machinist to heading R+D for new products, he’s come to leatherwork with some incredible skills.
But what’s more impressive about Allin is his point of view. We posed a question a few posts ago about methods of jumping into the first entry of a journal. Allin’s advice is to approach journaling from moment to moment – don’t memorialize the first page, and go at it as though you’ve been doing it forever. That’s his approach to his work as well. For Allin, the task at hand is what’s important, and he focuses on every step when working on a Renaissance Art product – that’s why every detail of the finished product is of such high quality.
While we’d like to say he’s modeling some of Renaissance Art’s Spring Couture, what you see Allin wearing is an example of some of the amazing things our employees make with scraps. This is a leather apron he made for his father for this past Christmas. He says he has a big box of scraps collected already – we’re very excited to see what he comes up with next.
One a side note, we’re extra happy to be blogging about Allin today because it’s actually his birthday - no foolin’. We’re having a birthday lunch today, so we’ll update later with some pics!
Tags: Allin, apron, birthday, leather, Renaissance Art, scraps
January 1st, 2009 at 6:19 am
Cool!! thank