01 · Selecting
Hides chosen by hand. Only back and shoulder — the firmest, most even leather — make it to the cutting board.
About
A small bench.
A small bench.
A long apprenticeship.
小さな仕事台
A workshop devoted to leather goods cut, skived, and stitched by a single pair of hands.
The discipline
Nothing decorative. 作り手
In a leather good made well, nothing is decorative. Every line of thread carries weight; every edge is shaped by hand. The discipline of saddle-making — where a single broken stitch can lame a horse — sits behind each piece on the bench.
Pieces are designed to be lived with. Edges are slicked by hand with beeswax and gum tragacanth. Seams are pulled tight enough to mark the leather. The finished object should feel, on the first day, like it has already been carried for years.
How a piece is made. 作り方
Four stages, none of them fast. A wallet takes roughly a working day; a tote takes a week.
02 · Cutting
Pattern pieces traced in silver pencil, cut with a round knife, skived at the edges so seams fold flat instead of bulking.
03 · Stitching
Holes pricked with an iron, then sewn with two needles and waxed linen thread. Each stitch is locked — never a chain that can run.
04 · Finishing
Edges sanded, dyed, burnished, waxed, and burnished again. The maker's mark is stamped on the inside, where only the owner will see it.
One bench at a time. 工房
Visits to the workshop are by appointment. Drop a note from the contact page if you'd like to come by and watch a seam being pulled.
