Both color and workmanship bring the image of a saddle to mind: all in all, the Concept GLA incorporates more than 65 feet of hand-stitched seams to hold the raw edges of the leather together.

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Imagine a large cartographic quilt, tightly stitched in parts but with ragged and jagged edges, with bright patches and threadbare ones in the middle.

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Mr Taylor was given a tetanus jag and returned the next day for plastic surgery when the "ragged edges" were removed and his ear was stitched.

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