Since 2021
Fifty hours,one bag.
We are a small workshop in Colombo. We make bags slowly, in numbers we can count, and we finish every one by hand.
The beginning
It started with a video and a bad idea.
A tutorial, watched late one night, on threading glass beads onto wire. It looked simple. It was not. The first attempt took fifty hours across three weeks and the seams were crooked in a way that still bothers us.
We kept the bag. It sits on a shelf in the workshop, and it is the reason we photograph every piece from the same angle it was ruined at — so we can see, each time, how far the hands have come.
Today there are four of us. We cut, edge and stitch in one room, work with two tanneries we know by name, and release small runs twice a year. When a piece is gone, it is gone. That is not a marketing position; it is simply how much we can make.
The method
Cut once. Edge four times.
Every panel is cut by hand from a single hide so the grain runs continuously around the bag. Edges are sanded, burnished, painted, and burnished again — four passes, because three shows.
Hardware is solid brass, unplated, so it wears to a warmer colour instead of flaking. Linings are cotton drill, replaceable. Nothing is glued shut that might one day need opening.
Made forthe long run.
A bag should outlast the season it was bought in. Ours carry a twelve-month stitching guarantee and a standing offer: bring it back and we will repair it, for as long as we are here.
The list
First access, twice a year.
We make in small runs. Join the list and you will know before anyone else.