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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
Pricing
and Ordering
Information
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)
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)
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 andthe 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.
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
daysA 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
Your Southern California Leather and Native Craft Supply Source
7624 Tampa Ave.
Reseda, Ca. 91335
818-342-9120
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