Edges first.
The bag is what happens between them
Leather goods · saddle-stitched · one bench
Four pieces · veg-tan · linen thread
Every edge signed on the inside
The bag is what happens between them
Anyone can cut leather into a bag shape. The edge is where the truth lives — sand it, dye it, wax it, burnish it, do it again. Then you may sew.
Raw leather has a fuzzy cut edge. Pass one takes it down with 400-grit until it's flat, square, and quiet.
Saddle stitch: two needles cross through every hole from opposite sides.
Cut one stitch and the rest hold. A machine's lockstitch unzips.
That's the whole argument for the extra six hours.
Vegetable-tanned leather darkens with hands, sun, and rain. It is not a defect; it is the receipt.
Four shapes refined for eleven years. No seasonal colours, no collaborations, no hardware we didn't cast. Each piece in natural, tan, or black — the leather does the rest.