Custom made oil drum furniture, designed for Northstar Yamaha.

Oil Drum Furniture

Oil drum furniture is the ultimate petrolhead/mancave interior design item and we’ve been looking for an excuse to make some for ages; so when Northstar Yamaha asked for some for their new showroom at Northlakes, we jumped at the chance. The seats feature a recycled patchwork leather top with the Yamaha tuning fork logo in[…]

Custom Suit Cube made from recycled motorcycle leathers.

Suit Cube

For all the riders out there who have motorcycle leathers that have been down the road a few too many times, this is for you. We know that there is often a lot of memories attached to those leathers and we can give them a new lease of life. We can add logos, patches or numbers[…]

RST race suit before and after. The old patches were removed and replaced with new sponsor logos.

Racesuit Overhaul

This RST leather race suit was structurally perfect but it had lived a hard life and was starting to look very tired and scuffed. We cleaned it up, did a major cosmetic overhaul, designed, sourced and added multiple sponsor patches and a custom rider logo patch in hard-wearing subsurface printed vinyl. The results speak for[…]

Before and after shot of Berik motorcycle leather repair to arm and shoulder.

Leather Repair

This Berik suit came to Stitchsmith after its owner had an unfortunate crash at the track. He is now ready to get back on the bike but the suit needed a few repairs and a little cosmetic work to make them pretty again. The kevlar was replaced with a new panel and the hole was[…]

Chris Knight and Clint Clark posing pre race.

Grid Girl

This Grid Girl outfit was designed from scratch for Gasket Racing and the final round of BSB at Brands Hatch. In a very short time frame we had custom printed logos made and the outfit designed, stitched and completed just in time to get it to the UK  and on the grid for the big race.[…]

Collage showing race leathers on the Singer machine

Leather alteration

Sometimes off the rack items fit perfectly, sometimes they do not, one option is to get items made to measure but this isn’t often the most convenient or affordable option as lead times can be long and prices can rise significantly, a pair of made to measure race leathers can be twice the price of[…]

image showing Workshop roller stool recovered with Alpinestar leathers in a garage

Alpinestars Supermoto suit workshop stool

The latest leather related recycling project for Stitchsmith was to repurpose a set of Alpinestars S1 Supermoto leathers to customise a workshop stool. The suit was cut off the wearer by the paramedics following a self described “loss of talent” at the racetrack and have since been replaced by a new set, it’s great to see[…]