Topdog Collars.
The best in custom dog wear.

Leather: We look for a perfect finish and supple feel, and select all our leathers from a variety of suppliers to ensure that we obtain the very best available.

We try to use only flawless New Zealand saddle leather in 3-3.5mm for our prestigious show range.

For the "working dog" range we may utilise chrome tanned leather for its superior weather resistance; which often contains some natural irregularities or "patination" that adds to its character."Deluxe" or "Custom" collars are made exclusively with premium materials.

Leather thickness may be up to three layers for the strongest collars anywhere. For leather coats we buy only the best glove leathers.       

Fittings: Our competitors envy our fittings.

We have scoured the planet to find the sturdiest buckles, dee rings, and ornaments. We try to avoid joins or welds and concentrate on first quality hand cast brass and nickel plate hardware or ornaments.

Some are hand crafted by skilled artisans in Europe for us.

Decorations are SOLID BRASS OR NICKEL, not cheap plated ones you get elsewhere.

Stitching: Who else in the world hand stitches collars to order?

While this is labour intensive it is the strongest method. We can then use a heavier water resistant thread. Note that hand stitching is very time consuming and may not be as even as machine stitching (due to the inconsistency of leather as a material.)

To minimise costs to you we employ some machine stitching in our Working Dog collars. Of course Soverencraft coats and other items are neatly machine sewn with a fine thread.

Craftsmanship: Believe it or not, we do not use any machines in our custom collar construction. The result is the 100% hand crafted excellence that is known all over the world.  

The leather is selected and cut by hand; trimmed; edged; smoothed; coloured; marked; shaved and punched; the decorations are hand measured and set; then finally hand stitched and tested. 

It takes around ten hours to make each collar!

It takes four hours to make a lead!

We believe that quality does not have a short cut. Of course it comes at a price and we know  that our product is not the cheapest out there.

You can buy much cheaper collars if you want to, and many are quite good too.

However ours are undoubtedly the best and we export around the world to customers who believe they are too.