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    STAMPING GROUND

    Oct 02, 2020 5 minutes
    By Ritchie Wilson
    Photographs: Ritchie Wilson

    When Yağmur Habora was a fine-arts student in Izmir on Turkey’s Adriatic coast from 1998 to 2003, part of the curriculum was an introductory leatherwork class.

    Fast-forward to 2015, and Yağmur was employed at a failing Christchurch bar and restaurant. Before the inevitable closure Yağmur decided that she had had enough of hospitality and its stresses and set up her leatherworking workshop in the two front rooms of her 1920s bungalow.

    The north-facing bay window provides plenty of light and gives her a view of passers-by in the inner-city street. Leather working also allows her to work for herself and to practise a craft that has a long history in Australasia. It is a craft that she feels strongly is in danger of being lost and should be preserved.

    You meet the nicest people on a Honda

    Yağmur comes from a distinguished Turkish

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