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About English Saddlery Tan

English Saddlery Tan is built from the surface of burnished bridle leather itself — oak-bark tanned hide drawn down to a rich, genteel saddle tan, never bleached to cream or white. Solid brass buckles, beveled and burnished edges, and waxed-linen saddle stitching set the entire vocabulary.

This is the hunt-and-dressage tradition of the English saddler, not the tooled Western saddle. Restraint is the discipline: grain you can read, a single warm brass accent, engraved capitals, and seams that look hand-pulled two stitches at a time.

Learn more about the English Saddlery Tan style

Origin
England, Western Europe
Era
pre-1900 oak-bark tanning; bridle-leather craft continuous to today
Key figures
English master saddlers · Sedgwick-style oak-bark bridle tanners
Movements
English hunt and dressage equestrian leather craft · vegetable oak-bark tanning

English Saddlery Tan design spec

Colors

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Typography

CinzelHeadings
Libre BaskervilleBody
Mrs Saint DelafieldMono
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