For some, lockdown boredom has been a horrible thing, but for 10-year-old Sebastiaan van der Linde the boredom bug led him to start his own small business.
Sebastiaan can now almost always be found at his mom’s kitchen table, tinkering away and making belts to complete all his orders. “My mom cuts the strips of leather from a side of full-grain vegetable-tanned leather. I then measure the belts to size, mark and punch the holes, and dye the leather,” Sebastiaan said.
“I always liked to watch and to play with the scraps while my dad was working, and picked up the basic skills like that. I can’t even remember the first thing I tried to make out of leather. I think it was a bracelet,” he said. We feel it is important not to help with production as we want him to keep on being genuinely proud of every belt he makes and for Bassie Belts to stay just that, belts made by Bassie.“We feel it is important not to help with production as we want him to keep on being genuinely proud of every belt he makes and for Bassie Belts to stay just that, belts made by Bassie.”