Desk Mat - Unstitched

The anchor of the desk. 

A single piece of full grain vegetable tanned leather, hand-cut to 60x30cm and edge burnished by hand.   Felt backed to prevent movement.  The clean, unstitched edge is the result of five hand burnished passes - compressed, smooth and increasingly polished with age. 

Made by a single maker, from first cut to final stamp.  Not assembled in stages.  Not passed between hands.