From wordsmith to leathersmith

Mark Corless with his goods in Buronga. Picture: Ben Gross
Karli Farrell

MARK Corless went from writing bylines to making leather bags after he left the big smoke and returned to Sunraysia to set up Riverbend Leather, firstly in Wentworth, and now in Buronga. The shop sells Corless’s handmade bags, belts, journal covers, tobacco pouches, and fly swats, which are known as ‘Wenty Whackers’, but he said […]

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