As a handmade waxed-canvas and leather goods manufacturer in La Mesa Village, The Jackalope on Allison Avenue builds every bag, wallet, and accessory by hand at its La Mesa workshop. The Allison Avenue showroom doubles as a production studio and artisan gallery, carrying framing-ready leather art pieces alongside the custom display work at Nainsook Framing & Art. Founded in 2019 as a garage-based workshop, the business opened its brick-and-mortar showroom in June 2023 and stocks local artisan goods, eclectic home items, books, and curiosities beyond the core leather and canvas line. Intimate leather-crafting classes teach cutting, stitching, and finishing fundamentals, extending the maker-community programming that vendors at HANDMADE MARKET bring to the Village retail scene. Highest-value production uses full-grain veg-tan leather and paraffin-infused cotton canvas with hand-set brass hardware, yielding bags rated for field use that develop a unique patina with age rather than degrading.