BRETTUNS VILLAGE
LEATHER

Updated June 12, 2013


DEAL OF THE WEEK!!

We post our DOTW on FB when we remember to plaster it up there.
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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!
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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:
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.



Even MORE Deals are now listed on our
CLEARANCE Page!




Site Map

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 inventory changes every week, so check back often to see what's new in the shop.  You can also sign up for our newsletter -
it's free, we keep your name and e-mail address to ourselves, and we'll keep you up-to-date about our inventory.  It's easy!
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If you've got absolutely nothing better to do you can read some of our old newsletters by clicking here.

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!

Loads of New SPOTS and DECORATIONS!

Sole Bends 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



SEE THE NEW TOOLS PAGE!!
Metric Arch Punches Now Available

Goat and Sheep Hides
Light Weight Cowhide Sides, all less than 3 oz in thickness!

Click on the pictures to visit our Lightweight Leathers page!
Exotic Hides: Caiman leather, lizard skins, and python!

A Big Mess of New Suede Colors!
 

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!

Cowhide Sides in many weights!



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.

Give a BrettunsVillage.Com Gift Certificate!!


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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 ONLY



Placing an Order - Choice #2
Use our shopping cart system by clicking the buttons next to each item.
When ready to check out, you'll have the option of paying with a PayPal account or just using your Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover card.


E-Mail Us!
leather@brettunsvillage.com


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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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