They are stories of a time when he began making small leather bags after being bailed out of prison to pay for his legal fees.
W. Hulme, where artisans manufacture more than 250 leather and canvas products from small leather goods to luxury luggage, has been dominated by baby boomers and their parents for the past decade.
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He says he spends his waking hours clinging onto memories of time spent with his family back home in Karachi, where he ran a small business selling leather goods.
He also produced high-quality copperware and small amounts of furniture, ceramics and leather goods.
These small evening accessories make way for crocodile leather day bags in Hitchcock heroine shapes.
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Besides the footballs and baseballs, Leather Head recently produced a small batch of peach-basket-era laced basketballs for Converse, and he dabbled in rugby balls after an inquiry from Ralph Lauren.
Keith trotted at her side, a small, thin lad, in his white leather zip-up jacket, his jeans and black plastic shoes.
An upper-level loft has a small kitchenette, Oriental rugs, hardwood floors and a leather couch.
At present, Dharavi has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery and plastic.
After his father's battle with cancer, Nick and his dad had stayed at Penny's sprawling house, with its 12-foot-tall entryway, its waterfalls by the swimming pool and movie room with leather recliners and a screen the size of a small-town cinema.
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But what I wanted was horses: small hairy ones, glossy dancing ones, mud, sweat and leather.
The smell of tanned saddle leather pervades the store, a warren of almost claustrophobically well-stocked small rooms.
As the number of mineworkers has declined steadily over the past several years, a small manufacturing base has developed based on farm products that support the milling, canning, leather, and jute industries, as well as an apparel-assembly sector.
Standing near one of the mounted warriors, for example, we take in gold-trimmed expanses of small lacquered squares that cover the horse's flank, the grain of a decorated leather saddle pad, the sheen of a black metal mask, the ribbing of the helmet, the softness of the underarmor shirt, and the vibrant orange-and-gold striation of the samurai's cuirass and skirt.
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In another quarter of the small luxury category, Coach has shown strength and growth on the back of its moderately priced luxury handbags and leather goods.
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