DEAL
OF THE WEEK!! We post our DOTW on FB when
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SMOOOOOOOOOOTH
BLACK COWHIDE SIDES 5
SIDES FOR $200 - 48-STATE SHIPPING INCLUDED! OK, put your books away
- stop the chit-chat. It's test taking time. Get out your Number
2 Pencil and make sure you put your name on the line in the upper right
corner.
Our quiz this week is being
sponsored by the Nebraska Office of Tourism - "Nebraska: Only a three-day
drive from anywhere"
Question #1:
What's smooth as smooth can be, black as black can get, and a bit on the
firm side, temper-wise?
A. A cat
B. Nebraska
C. Brettuns Village's
current Deal of the Week leather - Smooth Black Sides
D. What was the question
again?
E. Highway 16 to Oquossoc,
since Maine DOT repaved that run.
Question #2: A customer
purchases the current BV DOTW. What sort of items would they likely
make from that leather?
A. Desk top surfacing
B. Carrying case for
tools
C. Inlay panels for
fancy furniture
D. Book covers
E. All of the above
Question #3: How much
casheroo would said customer be required to lay out to get his/her hands
on the DOTW?
A. A buck two eighty
B. Nebraska
C. I forgot to read
the huge green text at the top of this page, and now I can't figure out
how to get back up there.
D. $200, followed
soon thereafter by the arrival of 5 sides of this leather to customer's
chosen 48-state delivery address
E. This is the stupidest
way to sell leather that I've ever seen.
Question #4: What if
I don't need 5 sides of this leather?
A. This isn't about
'need' - it's about the Deal of the Week.
B. These sides are
sold one at a time on the BV Hides and Sides page
C. Fill out this form,
and in 6 to 10 weeks a case worker will visit you to determine your true
leather needs.
D. Nebraska
E. At $200 for 5 sides,
and with 48-state shipping included in that price, I'll by-gum FIND a way
to make use of it.
Question #5: What are
the details about these smooth black sides?
A. Sides run an average
of 18-19 sq ft each.
B. Thickness is LM
or 3-3.5 oz or 1/16" or 1.2-1.4 mm
C. Not soft - these
are regular temper
D. Did we mention
how smooooooth the surface is?
E. All of the above.
OK, that concludes your exam.
The correct answers will be included in the box when you take advantage
of this DOTW.
Five sides of smooth black
cowhide sides, $200 flat, 48-state shipping included.
A good way to get your hands
on 2.5 cows' worth of leather for not a whole lot of loot.
The
Past DOTWs Listed Below are Still Available Until Sold Out! ==============================================================
JUNE
IS NATIONAL LEATHER LACING MONTH! No
it isn't. The BV Writing Team totally made that up out of thin air.
Thanks; The Management Since the very beginning
of the National Organization To Retail Extra Amounts of Leather Lacing
(NOTREALL) this fine coalition has been
focused on one goal - get
good lacing into the hands of folks who need to tie things together or
wrap them up or hang them someplace or hold up this or that.
You've probably read about
their annual conferences, which are typically held in hot spots for big
meetings, like Vegas, Orlando, or Lewiston, Maine
(yes, of COURSE we have
a conference center and it's AVAILABLE for your next meeting, most likely),
as things often get out of control with most of the
voting members tied to their
chairs with colorful lengths of leather lacing, like you see in the photo
above. NOTREALL is good about helping their membership sell
their lacing, but not so
hot at helping them choose colors. End result? A shelf in someone's
warehouse that has high quality leather laces, 9/64" square laces, 72"
long
each (that's 6 feet, Einstein),
in Ice Blue or Light Pink, and a Warehouse Warbler (Charlie) who wants
those laces to disappear.
This week our Deal of the
Week gives you a bundle of 100 6-ft long laces in either Ice Blue or Light
Pink, and with each bundle you'll also get a bundle of 100
synthetic laces, 11" long
each. These are not leather but they sure are strong and they're
not costing you anything so we don't want to hear any whining about the
darned things.
This DOTW is priced at $65
per 100 6-foot laces, choose Ice Blue or Light Pink, Synthetic Laces included
at no charge
and like we've done since
back in the early 1990s when this company more or less emerged from a dense
fog we've included shipping in that price for our USA customers.
Can't decide? Get
one bundle of each for $120 and then take that $10 you saved and go hit
our Decorations/Spots page for some wild metal bits to add to your project.
Come on. Get your
pastel on and tie something up.
Color
WICKED
WAXY SIDE LEATHER Super
Dark Brown Cowhide Sides 16 to 19 sq ft (small sides) for $65 FLAT! 50-STATE
USA SHIPPING INCLUDED! Ever spent a winter upcountry,
and I don't mean in Ohio nor Mo nor SD nor 'Northern Californee' neither
- I mean UPcountry, as in Maine, and even Northern Maine? If you
get outside much up
this way anytime between
Halloween and mid-March-ish your hands just dry right out. The skin
gets flaky looking, and they itch, and if you bump your hand into the edge
of the kitchen counter
it almost certainly becomes
another wound that'll stay put until a humid air mass moves back into the
region. All that dry air - man, it's tough on a working person.
The answer? You can either wait til
mid June when things get
above freezing or buy some of this Gaucho Pitstop leather. This stuff
is very, very dark brown, and very, very waterproof. It's got so
much wax on it you can almost use it as
a candle. Don't.
I mean it. Unroll this leather, move it around, roll it back up,
and poof, just like that your hands are all lubed up and feeling better.
This leather was intended to be made into
hiking boots, but we ended
up with the culls - these are small sides, 16-19 sq ft each, 5.5 to 6 oz
in thickness, firmish temper, just right for a quiver, gun sleeve, or protecting
the dock lines on your new
square stern triple masted
squid jigging boat. Deal of the Week price for these small sides
is just a flat $65, USA shipping included.
25
HIGH FASHION BIG WHOOP-DEE-DOO BELTS
FOR YOUR RUNWAY SHOW FOR
$50 FLAT - 50-STATE
USA SHIPPING INCLUDED! Brettuns Village wants to
be the first to congratulate you on the new Exercise and Slim Eats Plan
that you've both invented and followed
over the last few months.
You're looking good! We all knew you could do it, and we're all crazy
about your new look. The only thing you need,
and please understand that
we're only saying this to HELP, not hurt, is that you've got to do something
about your old, baggy britches. At the Farm Auction the
other night you missed out
on all the baby chick lots and the lambs too, just because you couldn't
raise your hand to bid - you had both hands busy
holding up your pants to
keep from getting into an altercation with the constable. It's an
embarrassment to you, and to those of us near you in the crowd.
What you need, old friend,
is a belt. So, once again, we've got your back.
Mixed assortment of 25 high
fashion women's belts, ranging from 1/2" to 1.5" wide, various
lengths, in wild colors
and prints, leather outer, synthetic lining, no buckles attached.
Our Deal of the Week gives
you a mixed lot of 25 of these belts for $50 flat, 50-state USA shipping
included.
Yes, that includes PR, GU,
and all those other Territories out there.
A Heap of Sheep! We've got a lot of sheep
leather around this joint, for a variety of reasons, call it the Perfect
Storm of sheep, or just Heap-o-Sheep.
These are reasonably soft
hides, good quality, and so the Warehouse Imperials have put together a
set of SIX hides for this week's Deal.
A set of six sheep hides
for $100 flat.
Your set will include the
following:
1 Black Garment Sheep Hide
1 Off-White Garment Sheep
Hide
1 Dark Brown Garment Sheep
Hide
1 Embossed Sheep Hide, Western
Floral Pattern, Black
1 Embossed Sheep Hide, Ostrich
Print Pattern, Black
1 Embossed Sheep, Floral
Pattern, Black
All six hides, special DOTW
price = $100 flat,
USA shipping included (AK,
HI, PR, etc, yes, you too)
Off-White Sheep Hides-
Seconds - Two hides for $25 flat! This Deal of the Week is
pretty simple - Here at BV we've been selling off-white sheep leather hides
like mad dogs on motor scooters
for a few years now, and every so often we run across one in the pile that
has too many holes in it,
or a big scratch, or some
other blemish. We've been setting those second quality hides aside,
and now it's time to move them out.
These hides run about 4
to 5 sq ft each, about 2 oz in thickness (0.8mm), and are fairly soft.
Good for garments or linings.
These hides accept dye readily
- they soak it up like our warehouse crew soaks it up on a Friday after
work.
Our Deal of the Week gives
you a pair of these hides for $25 flat, 50-state USA shipping included.
Half price.
If you really like the looks
of this DOTW then we have another option for you - 10 hides for $100 flat,
shipping included.
Yes, that includes PR, GU,
and all those other Territories out there.
Please
select:
MADNESS DESCENDS UPON
MAINE!! A pile of loot that may
possibly have had some vague connection to college hoops... Enough basketball already.
To celebrate the fact that
the hoop season is almost over, Charlie and The Warehouse Imperials have
continued
their recent efforts to
make more room out there by assembling yet another load of crud, and it's
all basketball-related. OK, no it isn't.
This Deal of the Week gives
you the following list of highly useful warehouse flotsam:
One side of crocked cowhide
leather (the surface finish is peeling in some spots, but over 80% of each
hide is fine)
400 Synthetic Leather Laces
50 Fabric Bows
200 Genuine Leather Laces, Off-White
50 Woven Black Calf Leather
Shoe Vamps
All of this for just
$60 flat dead even. USA shipping included.
PS: Add additional
sides of our Tan Crocked Leather for $45 each, USA shipping included
Tannery Sample Notebooks If you'd like to spend some
time looking at small sample swatches of leather, and if you'd like those
swatches to be glued to a piece of paper, and if you'd like to
see a name and description
of each sample on the paper next to the leather, and if you'd like all
the pages of these samples to be bound together in a very good
quality three ring binder,
and if you'd like the front of that binder to say something like the name
of the tannery, then, sister, these notebooks are for YOU!
These arrived as part of
a sample hide shipment - we've got about 100 books, most are the same but
there are a few different ones (by 'different' we
mean they contain samples
of leathers not seen in the other books). Each notebook weighs 3.5
pounds. Maybe you like reading about leather samples,
or maybe the little samples
are of some use to you once you peel them off the paper (paper will remain
stuck to the back of each sample), or
maybe you just need some
good 3-ring binders. Whatever. We just sell them. Price
per notebook is $10, and this includes book-rate postage to any USA address.
We can offer a further discount
if you'd like five books. They're good notebooks/binders, if nothing
else.
5 sample books, USA shipping
included: $25.00
Tan CityCroc Embossed
Sides - CLEARANCE! Tan Embossed Sides, washed
over with a light brown dye to give the leather a vintage look.
Typical cowhide sides, average
18-20 sq ft of surface area
2.5 to 3 oz, Regular Temper
Embossed with a crocodile/alligator
pattern, semi-glossy.
$50 each 48-state shipping
included
Warning! The box
you receive may contain additional items that Charlie and his posse feel
they need to get out of our warehouse. From
a Couple of Weeks Ago: DREARY
WEATHER CALLS FOR DREARY MEASURES! Full
cowhides of beautiful upholstery leather, in
colors that make you fall asleep. Heading
into the second third of Winter, and it's getting to that point where those
of us who live/work/complain up here in Maine are
ready
to feel the rays of the sun again. Lately it's been a bit on the
dreary side, weather-wise.
Gray,
cloudy, spitting snow and sleet and ice and incredibly cold rain.
Yuck. Makes you want to take a nap.
So,
borrowing from that inspiration, we present this left over Deal of the
Week:
Full
cowhides, 40 sq ft or larger (guaranteed), in colors that make you want
to stand up, go back upstairs, and re-rack.
Blue-grays,
light grays, medium grays, and about 127 shades of 'Taupe', no two alike,
random selection.
Get
one Yawn hide for $90 flat, or 5 hides for $400 flat. USA shipping
included.
Your
DOTW Choice
Important
Info About Our Deal of the Week The Brettuns Village Deal
of the Week updates every Wednesday morning at somewhere around 6 or 7
or 8 am, EST.
Deals remain posted for
one week, or until our inventory is sold out. Any items left over
are posted on our Clearance Page.
First come (paid), first
served. If you'd like to take advantage of the Deal of the Week but
would like to pay by check
or money order just send
us an e-mail
(leather@brettunsvillage.com) and we'll set aside your Deal until your
payment arrives.
Some of our customers put
an event on their PC's calendar to remind them to check out our DOTW each
Wednesday morning.
Some of our customers think
this is a ridiculous waste of time, but we think they sneak in here and
take a peek anyway.
Whatever you do, wherever
you go, don't ever forget that shipping within the 48 contiguous
United States is always
included in our prices - there just flat aren't any other fees, charges,
or expenses to add.
If you're in AK or HI or
any of the Territories we can fit most of this stuff into flat rate boxes,
so you get free shipping too - just so
long as you don't mind us
folding your leather.
We post our DOTW on FB when
we remember to plaster it up there.
Go to our Facebook page
and hit that little button that says 'Like' and then you'll receive our
updates. Thrilling.
Brettuns Village
Leather
offers leather cow, goat, and exotic hides, leather sides and
leather scrap pieces as well as other leather craft supplies for a variety
of uses at very low cost. Our selection includes several sizes, colors
and thicknesses of first-quality leather hides and remnants, leather handsewing
thread, belt buckles, brass and steel rivets, leather craft tools, and
other leather craft accessories. We buy our leather and other products
from leather goods manufacturers and tanneries throughout New England and
around the world, and help them reduce excess inventory. We also
help them avoid sending good leather to the landfill. The end result
is that we are able to offer high quality leather and craft items to you
at low prices. Our inventory of leather and leather craft items changes
regularly, so we offer a free leather crafts e-mail newsletter to keep
our customers informed of new arrivals in the barn. Brettuns Village
Leather is a great place to buy your pull up leather, tooling sides, vegetable
tanned thick sides for armor making, oiled harness leather, accessories,
and findings.
Shipping is always
free for our customers in the contiguous 48 states, and we do our best
to extend this policy to our customers in Alaska, Hawaii, and all US Territories. Brettuns Village, Inc.
is based in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, USA. Visit
Our Store in Lewiston, Maine
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Our Guarantee:
Our guarantee is simple – If you’re not happy with your purchase for any
reason or no reason just ship it right back for a refund or exchange within
30 days. That’s it.
Returns and Exchanges:
At Brettuns Village, we guarantee your satisfaction. If you're not
happy with anything in your order, please send it back within 30 days for
a refund or an exchange.
You don't need to contact
us first if you don't want to - just send it and include a note with your
name, order date, and payment method, and we'll issue a refund or send
out replacement merchandise promptly.
If you have leather
hides, scrap leather, hardware, supplies, or related craft items that you'd
like to sell, please click
here to read about our consignment program
All Prices
Include Contiguous USA Shipping! AK and HI are just a little more
- send an e-mail to inquire WE DO NOT HAVE
A LEATHER CRAFTS CATALOG! ALL OF OUR LEATHER AND
CRAFT SUPPLIES ARE SHOWN ONLY ON THIS SITE! (Our leather inventory changes too
quickly to be able to print a paper catalog) Here's the Latest
News:
Over 1,000 full upholstery
cowhides on the Sides
and Hides page!
Lots of New Lace Colors
and Lengths, and even Braided Lace on the Lacepage!
Vegetable-Tanned Tooling
Bellies and Horse Strips on the Sides/Hides
page!
LEATHER
SCRAP PIECES.At
Brettuns Village our number one product is our high quality leather scrap. We offer these chrome-tanned leather
pieces in two size ranges, and we pick the colors and types you want. See our Scraps page for more information
on pricing and ordering
A Million D-Rings! Also new rivets, belt tips, keepers, conchos,
and decorative metal piece, all solid brass! Lots of new buckles and
keepers too. See the Parts
and Accessories page!
Thread
Waxed
Handsewing Thread and Large Spools of Machine Thread in Regular Weights
and Heavy Duty Weights for Leather! LIGHT
WEIGHT HIDES!! Sheep, Goat, Calf and Cow in a few different
colors 72"
Leather Laces! Great selection of leather laces in lengths
up to 72". Check
our Clearance Lots! Clearance lots of cowhide and calf
hide, various colors and thicknesses, and hardware - all on sale. Updated
daily. Don't miss out! Mountain
Man's Leather Purchase hand-made quivers, knives and sheaths,
and other leather goods made by the Mountain Man himself!
If you'd like to study
some common leather terms or are having trouble falling asleep click
here.
You can sound like an expert
once you learn to sling the lingo.
If learning about leather
thickness gets your heart pumping then click
here.
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We offer veg and chrome-tanned
cow and calf sides at prices that are tough to beat. Check out our SIDES
AND HIDES page All Prices Include
Contiguous USA Shipping! AK and HI are just a little more - send
an e-mail to inquire Take a look at our ACCESSORIES
AND PARTS page to get your hands on snaps, buckles, D-Rings,
brass eyelets, and other leather craft accessories at very low cost. HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER You Have Several Choices:
Mail, Fax, Phone, or Online Shopping Cart
We've tried to make this
as easy as possible. Print out this order
form and send it up with a check or with your Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Discover
info (number and expiration date).
Can't print the form?
No problem, just write your order down on a piece of paper and mail it
in, fax it in, or call it in. You can order leather pieces, laces,
buckles, etc all on
one form or piece of paper,
just add it all up. Don't forget your shipping address . We'll
get your order out as soon as possible.
All prices on our site include
shipping charges for locations within the 48 states, and, at Brettuns Village,
we do not charge for handling your order.
Just doesn't seem fair!
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Brettuns Village Leather
557 Lincoln St
Lewiston, ME 04240
Telephone: ORDERS ONLY,
PLEASE! For inquiries please e-mail us (see below).
Toll-Free: 1-877-LEATHAH
or
(207)782-7863
Fax: (207)782-7448 FAX
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When ready to check out,
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during snowstorms. Wander in and warm up by the fire.
Or visit Maine in summer
like everyone else on the Eastern Seaboard and enjoy a monstrous traffic
jam on Route 1.
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Now c'mon - as if there's
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