Melissa Daw is a mother and a self-taught handcrafter. She is based in Idaho Falls, where she and her family take advantage of the many outdoor activities Idaho has to offer. Melissa has many hobbies including cooking, gardening, home-brewing, camping, fishing, cross-country skiing, and drawing.  

However, her first hand-crafted love is leather work.

Melissa Daw is a self-taught leather craftsman. She carefully hand picks leather for texture, grain, quality, and color. From guitar straps to handbags, from dyeing to burnishing, Melissa creates items with specific themes and scenes tailored to a customers taste. With descriptions given by clients, Melissa also prides herself on creating unique and customized leather goods.

Carefully cut and stitched together, all of Melissa’s leather items are handmade, hand drawn, hand tooled and hand sewn. From her backyard workshop, Melissa Daw creates masterful, one-of-a-kind pieces.

When Melissa is not creating leather goods, she is having dance parties with her little ones, converting their yard into a permaculture garden, and drinking copious amounts of coffee.