Our main leatherworker is Ariss!

Ariss started fooling around with leatherwork two years ago, mainly through bootblacking with friends. Since then, they’ve self-taught themselves to how to design, cut, rivet, snap, sew, stamp, wet-form, repair, and condition leather for a variety of projects. They’ve briefly apprenticed under a cobbler with 30 years’ experience, have interned at a boot-making workshop, and with an overseas custom collar enterprise. Ariss can repair snaps, rivets, *ZIPS*; adjust pants, jackets, kink gear; restore old leather, condition current leather, shine boots; & more.

The rest of the team consists of the copious store knowledge of East Side Re-Rides. The wonderful humans who work here are leather mavericks and know just about everything there is to know about leather history, different brands, and super rare and functional details. They collaborate with our designs, photography, business decisions, tech solutions, bootblacking, and the family hive mind.

And, yes! We’re queer, we’re trans, we’re kinky and we’re really hoping you’re some kind of flavor of weird too!

Our workshop is small and focused on carefully handmade items! Currently our ‘heavy machinery’ consists of an industrial leather walking-foot sewing machine, a hand-crank cobbling sewing machine, a regular walking-foot sewing machine, a serger, a heat gun, an iron, and Ariss’ hands.

We have lots of hand tools, from hammers to punches to leather stamps – and 4ft of solid Douglas Fir as our thump stump!

Although we’re often found under the same roof, BoundAries Leather is a completely different company than East Side Re-Rides. East Side Re-Rides coupons won’t work with us and things bought from or consigned with East Side Re-Rides do not automatically qualify for free repair.

During regular business hours, the staff at East Side Re-Rides are able to

• take in items for our attention
• hand the finished items back to you
• take your payment.

See Ariss directly for

• custom work
• quotes on repairs
• any problems with your items

Our workshop is not open to the public. All consultations and fittings are done in store at East Side Re-Rides. (accessibility info here) If you have a (dis)ability, either visible or invisible, and have a difficult time reaching us, please let us know; housecalls may be possible.