Westley Richards is unique among British gunmakers in having a fully-equipped workshop in the factory, where our leather goods are hand-made alongside our bespoke guns and rifles.
Outfitting the Global Sportsman
Westley Richards is not simply a maker of the finest sporting guns and rifles, we are outfitters dedicated to furnishing seasoned sportsmen, travellers and adventurers with all the requisites of sport and leisure they may require.
For over two hundred years, our range of clothing, luggage, footwear and millinery has reflected our ethos of practicality delivered with uncompromising style and quality.
“As one of the last remaining leathermaking factories of its calibre in the British Isles, Westley Richards produces heirloom quality leather goods revered the world over.”
STEPHEN HUMPHRIES • Westley Richards Creative Director
Travel Leather
Many of our styles transcend the field and serve equally well as office or travel companions. Our exclusive travel range of classic soft luggage, in premium hide and canvas options and a range of sizes and styles, delivers unique and classy solutions to the packing challenges of the domestic and international adventurer.
Sporting Leather
Our leather rifle slips, gun bags, hill bags, hunting belts and cartridge wallets feature in the wholly Birmingham-made, unique to Westley Richards, range of sporting leather goods for sale in our showroom and on-line shop. We offer the complete solution to all your field sports outfitting needs with arrange of best quality leather goods available nowhere else.
"Our overall philosophy is quite simple, we want the gun, ammunition, the case, cartridge bag, gun slips, cartridge belt, cleaning roll, and travel bag, everything, to be of the quality that can be handed down to the next generation as things were a hundred years ago."
SIMON CLODE • Westley Richards Managing Director (1987-2016)
Harnessing Local Talent
Like our gunmakers, our leather workers are often drawn from the local area. Many came to us as Art or Design graduates, while others worked-up through the ranks and were trained in-house. Training is rigorous and the demands of this level of work are high.
Quality control, close supervision and an eye for talent ensures that Westley Richards leather bags and accessories are the best that can be bought, made by the finest leather workers in the country.
All About Bespoke
Customers are often surprised to learn that the Sutherland bag they bought from Westley Richards may be made to order by a single person. Design, pattern, cutting, gluing, stitching and lining: everything done by hand here in our Birmingham factory. Uniquely, among British gunmakers, we offer a wide range of bespoke options for exotic leathers like buffalo, ostrich or crocodile.
