Fish Leather Keyring – pink

A keyring with a double take: because yes, that texture is fish leather. Handcrafted from Nile perch skin at Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya. Heart-shaped, small enough to carry everywhere, and probably one of the most unusual handmade gifts from Africa you’ll find.

Front: fish leather with a natural scale pattern. Back: goat leather with the Ambani stamp.

Each one arrives slightly different. It’s the nature of the material. Produced at Ambani Fish Leather, a women-led workshop near Lake Turkana, Kenya. Buying one of these goes straight to Ira and James’s workshop at Lake Turkana where fishing became a lifeline after years of drought.