Journal

Notes from the craft table

Colour experiments, charm ideas and little how-tos for keeping your bag looking new.

Materials · Spring

What happens to a hide before it becomes a bag

Six months in oak-bark pits, three weeks drying flat, one afternoon of sorting by hand. A note on why vegetable tanning is worth the wait.

Craft

Sanding, wetting, slicking, waxing. The part of the bag nobody photographs is the part that decides how long it lives.

The workshop

A short tour of the bench, the clam, the round knife that came from a saddler's estate sale, and the window we work beside.

Care

Patina is not damage. What to do about rain, oil, sunlight, and the first scratch that will worry you more than any after it.

More notes coming soon. Shop the bags in the meantime.

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