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Tap and Dye Is a Bushwick Business Supporting USA Manufacturing One Camera Strap at a Time

Owner, Justin Waldinger, describes how he got his start in the world of handmade leather goods.

Tap and Dye Is a Bushwick Business Supporting USA Manufacturing One Camera Strap at a Time

Tap and Dye Is a Bushwick Business Supporting USA Manufacturing One Camera Strap at a Time

Owner, Justin Waldinger, describes how he got his start in the world of handmade leather goods.

Tap and Dye Is a Bushwick Business Supporting USA Manufacturing One Camera Strap at a Time

Justin Waldinger is the founder, CEO, craftsman and sole employee of Tap and Dye, a Brooklyn-based leather goods company that he runs out of his studio space at New York Studio Factory. Established in 2012, the business now serves over 1,000 customers each year, though Waldinger initially started making leather camera straps for himself and a small group of friends.

“That’s how the whole journey began and that was like four years ago,” Waldinger tells me in his studio. “I had been coming off of…

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