
Who We Are - About Us

Standing Bear's Trading Post is a Leathercraft & Native
American Supply store in Southern California.
The leather craft products we carry can be used by the beginning
leathercraft enthusiast
as well as professional leathercrafters. The leather supplies we
sell are used by and sold to leather craft hobbyists, wholesale
businesses, manufactures of custom leather items, institutions and
many youth organizations such as the Scouts, YMCA, churches,
schools, and camps.
Our American Indian arts & craft supplies, which include
leather, seed beads, bone and horn hairpipe,
Native craft kits, feathers, books and other instructional material
provide the Native American community, Scouts, members of the Order
of the Arrow and many others with Native American craft
supplies.
We also have suppliers for items geared for the buckskinner,
mountain men,
reenactors, and those that attend the Renaissance Pleasure
Faire
If you have a resale number we gladly offer wholesale pricing on
your orders through our store.
There is no club to join in order to get wholesale pricing on
orders without a resale number as we do offer wholesale pricing on
bulk orders of items that can be purchased from us.
Our customers find us via the internet or phone books under
leather
when they are looking for leathercraft supplies or leather for a
project they are working on,
but a bigger part of our new business comes from customer
referrals...customers sharing with others
our mission is to provide quality items and customer service second
to none.
Because we have many different suppliers and wanting
to be able to provide
up to date information on pricing and inventory that we are able to
get from our suppliers
we do not currently have a catalog for the items that we carry,
Price - Ordering Info -
Return
Policy
In an attempt to better serve our customers ,
Standing Bear's Trading Post conducts all orders via phone and
e-mail correspondence.
Due to the ever changing prices from our suppliers,
so that you can get accurate pricing before ordering we do not
currently list pricing on the website.
For pricing information,
questions about our products or to order, please e-mail us at
inquiry@sbearstradingpost.com or
Call us at 818-342-9120
Monday Through Saturday 10am -
6pm
(1PM - 9PM Eastern
Time)
Our Mission is to enhance our customer's lives by bringing them
unique products
while providing customer service that is second to none.
We hope to be the preferred supplier for leathercrafters
nationwide
by being able to offer a vast selection of quality leathercraft
products
for retail and wholesale customers at affordable prices.
How We Got Started as a Wholesale &
Retail Leather Craft
and Native American Craft Supply Store in Southern
California
On April 1st, 1999, Standing Bear, a Spiritual Elder of the
Onondaga Peoples of the Iroquois Confederacy,
former owner of Standing Bear's Habitat, (a Native American Museum
displaying artifacts and providing a place for children to
learn about Native Americans first Hand.) opened Standing Bear's
Trading Post
He was known as William Kimmey or Bill Kimmey to the
Southern California scouts and beading community.
He began teaching Beading Classes at Tandy Leather's Reseda
retail store in 1993
to adults wanting to learn how to do Native American Beadwork
In January 1999, Tandy Leather Company announced that they were
closing
all of their over 100 retail stores including the Reseda Tandy
Leather location where he was teaching.
Shortly after the announcement was made, the
leathercrafters, beading students, Youth groups & everyday
retail and wholesale customers began to question what they would do
to meet their needs at a retail location
rather than only the mail order that Tandy Leather Company was
offering.
From these questions and concerns, Standing Bear's Trading Post was
born.
Tandy Leather's Reseda Location closed on March 13th 1999.
On April 1st 1999 Standing Bear's Trading Post opened.
On
Sunday, June 11th,
Standing Bear, a Spiritual Elder of the Onondaga Peoples of the
Iroquois Confederacy,
former owner of Standing Bear's Habitat, founder and original owner
of
Standing Bear's Trading Post passed away In Minnesota.
If
you would like to sign his obituary visitation book, it can be
found
at:
Legacy.com
William Standing Bear Kimmey Obituary Condolence book
Letters
of condolence can be sent to:
Standing Bear's Trading Post
7624 Tampa Avenue
Reseda, CA.
91335
IN LOVING MEMORY of
William Standing Bear Kimmey
March 19,
1926 - June
11th 2006

Above Photo Courtesy of Ken Lubas
– www.artbeyondcontrol.com
Standing
Bear was very
loved and will be greatly missed,
Please continue to support us in our quest to keep
HIS store, HIS dream
alive!
We will remain
open, regular days and
hours!
Standing Bear's Trading
Post under the new ownership
of
Wayne Christensen of Custom
Leather by WC,

will
continue to bring you your Leather craft and Native American craft
supply
needs.
PLEASE LET PEOPLE KNOW WE ARE STILL GONNA BE
HERE!!!
About Our Suppliers:
We are Tandy Leather Factory, Hide Crafter Authorized Service
Centers,
as well as distributors for other Native American Craft and
Leathercraft Companies
Because
we are authorized distributors for many different
suppliers
Items listed
on the website are items we can get from these leathercrafting
& Native American Craft suppliers and may not be stocked
in our store at all times. If the items are not
in
stock, we can have them drop-shipped from the warehouse of our
supplier or
have them ordered into
the store in a timely fashion to assist you in receiving your
product promptly.
Hide
Crafter Leather
Company
Hide Crafter Leathercraft company is owned and operated by Master
leather carver George Hurst.
Hide Crafter is known as America's Leathercraft
Super center and lives up to that name!
This is a company that supports MANY authorized dealers
worldwide.
When ordering the products we carry
that are from this supplier, you can purchase with
confidence.
All the merchandise we purchase from Hide Crafters has
been selected especially for
leathercrafters.
Being an authorized dealer for Hide Crafters provides our company
access to a large selection
of
proprietary tools, patterns and videos devoted to
leathercrafting.
Tandy Leather Factory -
Retail and Wholesale Leather and
Supplies
Since 1919, Tandy Leather Company has been the resource for over
four generations of leathercrafters,.
Being an Authorized sales center for Tandy Leather Factory (being a
Tandy Leather ASC),
we are able to offer products from the finest names in the
leathercraft industry such as Fiebing's, Lexol, Craftool, Craftaid,
Al Stohlman Brand, Tippman, Garland USA, Osborne and Tejas
Lace.
We are able to work with a Tandy Leather Factory, a company that
has been resource for over
four generations of leathercrafters, providing quality leather,
tools, and leathercraft kits.
The Leather Factory is a leathercraft company created in 1980,
The Leather Factory purchased Tandy Leather at the end of 2000,
after Tandy Leather hit financial trouble
In 2002, the company merged. The official name of the company
was changed to
Tandy Leather Factory in 2005.
We also are distributors for other leathercraft companies and have
several other suppliers
including Native American craft supply companies across the US to
assist us in meeting your needs.
Due to our vast experience in the
leather craft industry we have been able to test prospective new
suppliers products and make selections of suppliers that will meet
the needs of our customers whether they are doing leather crafts,
beading, gourd work, scout merit badges, looking for a project for
scouts, ymca programs
or for a school diorama about Native
Americans.
As
Authorized Sales Centers for Tandy leather, The Leather Factory and
the company
now known as Tandy Leather Factory as well as being distributors
for Hide Crafter Leathercraft Company
and other suppliers nationwide we
are able to provide our customers with high quality
products to assist
them in the craft they are in and are able to
feature
many of the products you will find on their web sites,
and in our suppliers catalogs.
- As an independent small business, you can find lots of unusual,
hard to find gift items, and more
in our store from the many suppliers we, as an independent store
can get our items from.
Please be aware that our pricing
may vary on items from the above listed
companies,
Please Contact us if you do not see something on our web-site
that you are looking for, or if you have any questions.
Standing Bear's Trading Post is a sole proprietorship.
We hope that are attempts to meet the needs of our customers
by carrying many
different products to supply what people are looking for will help
lesson the burden of
us not having a catalog, pricing, or purchasing available
online.
Our Mission is to enhance our
customer's lives by bringing them unique products
while providing customer service that
is second to none.
We hope to be the preferred
supplier for leathercrafters nationwide
by being able to offer a vast
selection of quality leathercraft products
for retail and wholesale customers
at affordable prices
If we don't have what you are looking for - We will do
the best we can to find it!
Pricing
and Ordering
Information
Some
visitors to our site ask why we do not have prices on our
items...
We do not
have the prices online because we have many suppliers and their
pricing and inventory change
at different
times throughout the year. They discontinue items and add new
items year round as well as changing the pricing on the many items
and there is not enough time in the day to revamp each suppliers
information (pricing - products) every time they change their
information.
Standing
Bear's Trading Post conducts all orderingvia phone, e-mail
and at our store in Reseda, CA.
We have no online ordering system.
So that
you can get
accurate pricing before ordering,
due to the ever changing prices from our suppliers,
we do not currently list pricing on the website and we do not
currently have a catalog.
For
pricing information
and to order please e-mail us at inquiry@sbearstradingpost.com
or Call us at 818-342-9120
Monday
Through Saturday 10am - 6pm(1PM - 9PM Eastern
Time)
We appreciate your support of California Small
Business!
Visit our Store, or Order via Phone and e-mail and
Have Your Order
Shipped
WE SHIP
NATIONWIDE
7624
Tampa Ave. Reseda, Ca. 91335
818 342-9120
HOURS:
Mon. Thru
Sat. 10am - 6pm (1PM - 9PM Eastern
Time)
For Pricing
Information
Please call or e-mail
me with the item
number and description of items and I will reply with pricing as
well
as ordering information. Orders are processed the day they are
received or the following day
and are usually shipped within 24 hours of receiving the order if
it is in a business day, or it is shipped the following business
day. We strive to provide quality customer service.
Please call 818-342-9120 or e-mail me with any
questions.
We strive to answer all inquiries,
and questions
in a timely manner,
We appreciate the customers and supporters of our California small
business.
In a world where "mom and pop" businesses are going by the
wayside and corporations are striving,
Thank you for supporting us!
To place an order
Please call or e-mail me
with a
shipping address, phone number to reach you and
the item # and quantity of the item you are interested in.
I will then figure out the merchandise total with or without tax,
and the shipping costs.
(We ship Nationwide for customer convenience.)
I would call or e-mail you with the total cost
and then call you with these totals for payment via credit card
when the items were in stock and ready to ship.
The items would be shipped the same day or day after payment was
received.
Leather by
WC is located within Standing Bear's
WC is the owner of Standing Bear's Trading Post as well as Leather
by WC
and is Your Source for Custom Handcrafted Leather products.
Return
Policy:
Merchandise must
be returned within 30 days No returns are accepted after 30
days
A 10% restocking fee is deducted from all return
payments.
Returned
items must be unopened and unused, they have
to be in new, resalable
condition.
No
returns on open package
items
Original
shipping charges are not
refundable, Customer pays return shipping fees
Bulk/Special orders cannot be returned

Thank You for Visiting Standing Bear's Trading
Post
Your Southern California Leather and Native Craft Supply
Source
7624 Tampa Ave.
Reseda, Ca. 91335
818-342-9120

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