What Wood & Faulk is known for

Portland, Oregon leather goods maker started by Matt Pierce in 2010 as a DIY project blog before growing into a full workshop, now based in a roughly 3,800 sq ft space in North Portland's Eliot neighborhood. Named after Woodrow and Faulkner, two streets Pierce previously lived on in Kansas.

Wood & Faulk is a Portland, Oregon leather goods company founded by Matt Pierce, who started it in 2010 as a blog documenting his own DIY leather projects rather than as a formal retail business. The brand's name comes from Woodrow and Faulkner, two street names from places Pierce had previously lived in Kansas. The company's turning point came with what Pierce called a 'leather wear-in belt experiment' — selling a limited run of vegetable-tanned leather belts and asking buyers to document how the leather aged and changed over time — which generated enough interest that Pierce shifted from blogging about projects to manufacturing and selling them directly. The product range has since grown to include belts, bags, duffles, wallets, watch straps and outdoor accessories such as a camping stool associated with the brand. Wood & Faulk sources leather from tanneries across the United States and now operates out of a roughly 3,800-square-foot workshop and warehouse space in North Portland's Eliot neighborhood, having grown from a one-person blog-based operation into a small manufacturing business with wider wholesale distribution through retailers such as Huckberry-adjacent shops, The Hoxton's retail arm, and other independent menswear stockists.