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The Art of Leathercraft
Fischer Workshops Community Marketplace Coming Soon
Hi, For some time I have working towards making Fischer Workshops an online community that can be used to promote creatives and artisans in the leather industry like myself. A lot of what I already do on Youtube and through my website has hopefully been helpful to both novice and professional leather crafters alike. What I find just as rewarding as the craft itself is the community of people that I've been about to connect with through leathercraft and I hope that Fischer Workshops will serve to support and inspire opportunities for craft enthusiasts and professionals of the trade.
I grew up in Arizona, USA and moved to Asia when I was 21 to participate in a Christian missions program where I met my wife Jane. Over the years I learned to speak Mandarin Chinese, (Which was challenging!😩) it's the national language of Taiwan where I lived and involved a variety of jobs and charities. Most of my professional career was spent teaching EFL (English as a foreign language) and the rest was spent in the leather trade. An opportunity to work in the leather industry came shortly after starting my YouTube channel when I was invited to be a consultant for a leather company in Asia where I learned a lot about the craft and the trade as a whole. I also spent about 16 of my years in Taiwan as a pastor of an international Christian church that was made up of people from all over Southeast Asia, most of which were contract workers from the Philippines. Altogether I spent about 22 years in Taiwan and loved it! I moved back to the US in 2018 together with my family in a new chapter of our lives. Below is a small gallery of a few highlights along the way...
Like many others interested in working with leather, I learned most of what I know from watching other talented Youtube artists who shared their knowledge and skills through their tutorials. Starting out it was never my intention to become a Youtuber, but as time went on I began to feel compelled to share my ideas wanting to promote the craft and provide people with what I thought was much needed creative content. Fischer Workshops has grown to become one of the top leathercrafting channels on YouTube and I hope to be able to continue to focus on providing more creative leathercrafting content for years to come...
Luoyang, China Creative Exhibition 2016
Yilan, Taiwan Harley Davidson Motor Club 2015
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Friends of Fischer Workshops
Was fortunate to catch the talented, Taka Otsuka at work today at the Ameya-yokocho marketplace in Tokyo, Ueno, Japan December, 2017.
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Yue-Lee, Chris Fischer, (Fire leather handcraft) Mr. Chang, Christine and Stanley from Trio leather art
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Barry King Tools, Sheridan, Wy. 2017
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