TRIM Leather is now Ravenweave.

If you’ve found this page after looking for TRIM Leather, you’re in the right place. The name changed on January 1, 2026. The bench, the leather, and the people behind it are the same.

This is a brief explanation of why.

Fifteen years under one name.

I started making leather goods in 2010 under the name TRIM Leather. It was a functional name for a functional beginning: a small bench, a few tools, a determination to figure out how to cut and stitch full-grain leather without ruining it. The iPhone 4 had just come out. I made a case for it. It was imperfect. I made it again.

For fifteen years, TRIM was the right name. It described what the studio made: trim, considered, hand-stitched leather goods for everyday carry. iPhone cases, Apple Watch bands, wallets, straps. Made one at a time, in Hong Kong, for people who wanted something that would last longer than a season.

The leather work never changed. What changed was what the studio was becoming.

The Sanctuary.

In late 2024, the iPhone 16 arrived with a new Camera Control button, and a sensor beneath it that we hadn’t designed for. The punch-cut hole we’d used for every case before was suddenly wrong. You could feel the button, but not use it the way it was built to be used.

Benji and I spent close to a year working on it. In October 2025, we arrived at a solution: a precise internal frame, 3D printed from a model we built from scratch, fitted to hold the Camera Control properly. Thirty-three iterations in a month. The first case using it shipped that October, and it changed the entire case line.

While the printer was running between iterations, I started printing other things. A lamp shade. A container. Small objects I’d been sketching in my head for years without a reason to make them.

I’ve worked in CAD for more than twenty years, from interior design to product design, long before the bench existed. That knowledge made the leap feel possible. There was a stretch last year that was difficult in ways I won’t fully name here. My son wandered into the studio one afternoon and asked if I could shape something from Minecraft for him. I did. A lamp shade I’d been developing sat glowing in the corner. The light helped.

The Sanctuary came from that period. Home objects modeled and shaped in our studio, designed to give a room something to settle into. A lamp shade to soften the light. A planter for a window ledge. Small, considered things for the space where you stop moving.

When the studio was holding both of these lines, the name TRIM Leather stopped being wide enough to hold them honestly.

Why Ravenweave.

The name came from a place I’ll let the work speak to more than explain here. The raven knows its way. It carries things, and it brings things back. That’s enough.

What stays the same.

All of it.

The leather is still full-grain oil-waxed cowhide, cut and stitched at our bench. The iPhone cases, Apple Watch bands, wallets, and travel accessories that TRIM Leather made are all here, now under The Journey. Benji still makes at the bench. The embossing of initials, hand-pressed, is still included with every leather piece at no extra charge.

The studio is still in Hong Kong. The approach is still made to order, one at a time.

If you’ve ordered from TRIM Leather before, thank you. Those orders are the reason there is anything to rebrand at all. The domain is ravenweave.com now. Questions about old orders, write to hello@ravenweave.com.

The leather is the same. The bench is the same. The name is new. What it names is fifteen years in the making.

Carlie

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