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Ralph Quillin founded his leather business more than four decades ago, out of a corner of his house. By Ralph’s telling, he stumbled into the leather trade. After deciding to leave college, Ralph said, he got a job making custom leather sandals.

We get asked all the time: why does a Quillin halter cost more than what you find hanging on a rack at the farm supply store? Fair question. Here's a straight answer.

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.

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.