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Made by hand.
Finished by time.

We make leather goods the way they've always been made — slowly, by hand, with materials that improve with age.

  1. Selection

    Every piece begins at the source. We work exclusively with vegetable-tanned full-grain leather from Tuscan tanneries. Both tan their hides in open oak-bark pits, a process unchanged since the medieval guilds.

  2. Cutting

    Pattern-making is done on paper first, then transferred to the leather previously nourished. Every cut is made with a paring knife along a steel rule — no die-cutting, no punching. The natural edge of each panel is skived by hand to reduce bulk at the seams, without feathering the grain.

  3. Stitching

    All stitching is done using the saddle stitch technique: two needles, a single thread, each stitch locked from both sides simultaneously. The thread is waxed nylon/polyester — 0.5mm, tightly twisted, saturated in beeswax. The result is a stitch that cannot unravel: if one segment breaks, the rest holds.

  4. Finishing

    The final stage is finishing. Edges are bevelled with a hand tool, dampened, burnished with a bone folder against a slicker until the fibres lay flat and the edge takes on a semi-gloss. Hardware is set by hand, never heat-staked. The exterior surface receives one coat of natural wax, buffed in. Nothing more. The leather should arrive to you ready to begin its own story.