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Top Questions Asked About Quillin Leather:<br />
Here are answers to a few frequent questions we get at Quillin Leather & Tack.

You don't have to look hard to find a leather belt or a "handcrafted" gift these days. The internet is full of them — most made overseas, most wearing out inside a year, most described with the kind of breathless copy that knows nothing about the work behind it.<br />
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We make ours differently.

Quillin Leather & Tack — America's largest custom leather shop, handcrafting 17,000+ pieces annually in Paris, Kentucky since 1982. Shop. Visit. Watch us work.

The First Halter<br />
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How a foal born in Bourbon County became the 2026 Kentucky Derby winner — and what he wore on his very first day.

Most people know Kentucky for bourbon and the Derby. Fewer realize how tightly those two things are woven together, and fewer still know how central this one quiet county — Bourbon County, seat of Paris, Kentucky — has been to both.