Inside the leather workshops of Andalucía

The neat and tidy shelves of his atelier are filled with rolls of leather, spools of thread, sketches of patterns, religious icons and a small statue of a horse. Tools hang neatly on the wall – awls, bevelers, chisels, mallets – some made by Menacho himself. “Many of them haven’t really changed since the 15th century,” he says. “There’s one that’s called a pata de cabra, or goat’s foot, because that’s what it looks like,” he says. Some of the first items he ever worked…