Leather goods cut, stitched and finished by hand, in small numbers.
A bag here starts as a whole hide on the cutting table and leaves as a finished piece from the same pair of hands. Nothing is glued where it can be stitched, and nothing is painted where it can be burnished.
We make fewer bags so that each one can take the time it needs: a day for a woven tote, most of a week for a structured top-handle.
Leather and canvas, thread and brass.
The saddle stitch is slower than a machine and far stronger; one broken thread does not undo the seam.
Straps, edges and linings can be renewed, so a bag can keep going.
The four benches every piece passes through.
Hides are chosen by hand for grain, weight and colour.
Panels are cut with a knife along paper patterns.
Seams are saddle-stitched with two needles and waxed thread.
Edges are painted, brass is set and the leather is conditioned.
Our hides are vegetable-tanned and full-grain: the strongest outer layer, left uncorrected so the natural marks stay. Vegetable tanning takes weeks rather than hours and gives leather that darkens and softens with use instead of cracking.
Hide, thread, pattern and the tools that join them — everything a bag is made from sits on one bench.
Shop the bags
Waxed linen thread
Four collections, one hide.
A size, a colour, an order or a gift — send a note and the workshop will answer.
