The Finishers

Responsible Leather Finishing

Blenkinsop Leathers Limited

Derek Cooper, Robin Gardner and Andrew Miller established Blenkinsop’s in 1989, rescuing the business from closure. Today, they employ a local, highly skilled workforce, with decades of expertise, offering a leather finishing service of the highest quality.

Low Carbon, High Quality

Our Leather Finishing Partners

Having started as a small but dedicated workforce of only fifteen, Blenkinsop’s have grown into a globally renowned leather-finishing workshop offering premium wet and dry leather processing, embossing, and bespoke services. They share our respect for responsible craftsmanship by using traditional leather finishing techniques and keeping everything under one roof. This means complete traceability. By carefully managing chemicals and waste, they help create our beautiful leather and boast one of the lowest leather finishing environmental footprints on the planet.

Blenkinsops Leather finishers

Derek Cooper

We are one of the few remaining leather factories in the UK. Our combined expertise in traditional leather finishing methods and the latest techniques helps us provide a truly bespoke service