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Dark Star Leather features many one-of-a-kind designs
2007
Overview
Dark Star owner Toyo Gilman started the business with his boyhood friend, the late Richard (Rick) Leece. They met in the mid-'60s while both were students at Doolen Middle School, teaming up to use their mutual leather-working hobby to create sandals and belts to sell to friends. Gilman, Dark Star's chief designer, and his staff - manager Susan Gersch and craftsman Chuck Maultsby - create one-of-a-kind products from a variety of leathers, including cowhide, reptile skins (mostly ranch-raised), buffalo and ostrich. Gilman designs everything, drawing his designs onto a cardboard template and transferring them to leather. Maultsby helps cut out the designs, and Gersch does the inlays and gluing. Gilman and Maultsby then do the final stitching and assembly.
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The Arizona Daily Star
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