Heistercamp LLP has a long association with the leather goods trade, going back some 130 years starting with Nigel Heistercamp's Great Grandfather who was a cobbler in Belgium.

His Grandfather manufactured handbags in Buckinghamshire and was joined by Nigel's father, who later went on to own a saddlers and leather goods shop. This is where Nigel learnt his trade. In 1990, Nigel's father retired and Nigel took the opportunity to branch out on his own and formed Aries leather, which not only carried out leather goods repairs for the trade, but also produced handmade leather belts.

In 2007 the repairs business was sold so that his full attention could be applied to expand the range of handmade leather belts that he made, and he now trades under the name Heistercamp LLP. Now based on their farm in the beautiful Devon countryside, and joined by his wife Alaine, they work in an idyllic location overlooking the surrounding farmland.

Traditional methods are used which allows them to produce a leather belt, which is not only rich in character and quality, but, because of the nature of leather, are individual, making them unique and something that will give years of pleasure. All of their custom leather belts are cut from the very best full-grained vegetable tanned leather butt hides (approximately 4mm in thickness), sourced from the U.K. and offered in a range of colours and styles. There is also a choice of buckle styles and finishes.

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Every one of their handmade belts comes in a leather and cotton canvas belt bag as standard or can be purchased as a gift set which consists of a wooden box and a cute Highland cow key ring.