A feather-leaf leather cuff on a rock, with dried grass

Handmade in Billings, Montana

Love and Worn

Loved once upon a time. Leather to love and be worn again.

A promise

Leather creations you will completely love, made from beautifully worn leather — jackets, bags, and the quiet leftovers of other lives.

I am Ashley. I am the only one at this bench. Every clip, cuff, and hat starts as something that was already loved, then waits on the table until it wants to be something else.

On the bench

Featured pieces

Feather.Leaf Headband

Feather.Leaf Headband

Wheat Cuffs

Wheat Cuffs

Feather.Leaf Cuff

Feather.Leaf Cuff

Feather.Leaf Clips

Feather.Leaf Clips

The shop

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Ashley kneeling outside, a leather leaf clipped in her hair

About Ashley

One pair of hands, a house full of leather

Friends and strangers asked for my work for years before I had a place to share it. I have been at this medium a long while. I still get quiet-happy when a scrap of someone else’s leather becomes a leaf someone will wear to the market.

I am a mom, a Billings maker, and the sole crafter of Love and Worn. Soft, lightweight, durable jewelry and small goods — nothing corporate, nothing made in a run of two hundred.

How a piece is born

The upcycling

Tooled brown leather and small cut leaves on linen

01

Forage

Teal scissors and blue leather leaves on a wood table

02

Cut

A leather leaf clipped into long brown hair

03

Worn again

Sagebrush prairie and a snow-dusted Montana mountain range

This place

The work looks like Montana because it is made here — wind, sage, late light, and leather that has already been through a few winters.

Find me

My next event

My next event is on social media.

A note

Pieces are one of a kind

I do not keep a cart that pretends these are inventory. If a piece speaks to you, write me. If it is gone, I can often cut another from the same hide — never a twin, always a cousin.