Maverick Matt Durbin
“WHEN I DISCOVERED LEATHERWORK, I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT. LEATHER WAS THE MEDIUM I HAD BEEN MISSING THE WHOLE TIME.”
— MATT DURBIN
I don’t like things that look all cookie-cutter,” says Matt Durbin, when asked how he got interested in working with leather. “I always hated it when somebody had on the same clothes I did. Even in high school, when I worked at Cavendar’s Western Wear, I didn’t like it when a guy walked in one day wearing the same shirt I had on. I always wanted to express myself more as an individual.”
Not to worry, hombre. The leather wallets, belts, spur straps and other custom leather items Matt builds at Durb’s Leather, in his home workshop in Leander, Texas—on the northwest edge of Austin—are pure-dee originals. Matt’s a maverick.
Of course, a leather artist can craft a unique vision and style in any corner of the good old USA and
