Khurana Leather Works

Khurana Leather Works is our little shop over in Beadon Pura, Karol Bagh. Specifically, we are at Shop No. 9 on Street No. 14. If you've walked around Karol Bagh, you know it's a maze of streets and shops, and Street No. 14 is right in the thick of it. We’ve been working with leather here for quite a while now. The smell of the material is something you just get used to after a few days. Our space isn't very large, so we have to be very organized with how we stack the hides and the finished pieces. It’s a lot of manual work, sitting at the bench and making sure the stitching or the cutting is correct. We don't use fancy machines for everything; a lot of it is still done by hand. Street 14 can get pretty packed with people looking for bargains. We just focus on what's in front of us. Some days are slow, and we just sit and talk with the other shopkeepers on the lane. Other days, we are rushing to finish an order for someone. It's not a glamorous job, but it’s what we know how to do. We don't have a big sign or anything, just the shop number. People find us by word of mouth mostly. It's a very grounded way of living. We just want to keep the quality of the leather work decent so that people don't complain. That’s really all there is to it. We just keep our tools sharp and our heads down, working away every day.