The Filson Workshop created a collection of one-of-a-kind hand-tooled leather pieces that are now available online. The styles — a card case, a wallet and a briefcase — feature beautiful Western ...

Among his more unusual items are leather-carved "paintings" framed with old barn wood, and fiddles covered in intricate leather patterns.

Tucked into Suite 129 of Plaza Palomino, 2940 N. Swan Road, is Dark Star Leather, a company that began 35 years ago as a consignment enterprise.