Leather bags
Model overview

The friend by your side

Friends are individual and have names – and so it is here, too. Every model has a name, and within a model each bag is designed just once, exactly as it is then made.

You’ll find you can discover not only girlfriends here, but also boyfriends; in other words, bags for men as well as unisex bags. Depending on how bold, romantic or practical you are.

At the moment, we sell the bags shown here exclusively in our workshop on the Canary Island of La Palma. An online shop is in preparation.

If you’d like to buy a leather bag from us but simply can’t make it to La Palma, just write to us.

Handmade one-offs

made with love on the Spanish island of La Palma.

When we get up in the morning, we’re already looking forward to our workshop, where we design and make handmade one-off pieces for you. It often starts at breakfast: "What do you think of the idea…?" – "Oh yes, come on, let’s do it", and we can’t wait to get back to our beloved workshop.
That’s where patterns are designed, cut out, rejected, improved, test-sewn. And then comes the big moment: the birth of a new bag and its warm welcome.

Then comes the impatient test-wearing, shopping trips, leaving it in the car for days – endurance tests, in other words, that the new bag has to pass. And then improving it again: detail work, or even, now and then, a burial – it just wasn’t meant to be.

When we get a mental block, we look out over the Atlantic, a view we can enjoy from the workshop. The endless expanse is so inspiring and calming that things usually move on again very quickly.

You’ll feel the joy of this creative process when you hold one of our bags or rucksacks in your hands.

Traditional craftsmanship and modern technology hand in hand

But what would creative joy be without perfect execution? For a long time we discussed what high-quality, traditional craftsmanship means, and came to the conclusion that we don’t want to squeeze our way of working into rigid boxes either. So we also work with modern technology, such as our industrial leather sewing machine, built precisely to our requirements, because it allows us to realise designs that simply wouldn’t be possible with older machines – and, on top of that, it produces a seam quality that makes our bags a friend for life. Every bag is sewn by hand, individually, one by one, and just for you.

Computer versus memory?

From the very first bag we considered worthy of being sold, we photographed it and entered it into our "bag book". By now we’ve brought so many bags into the world that we began to worry we might accidentally make the same bag twice – searching through the bag book became more and more of a chore and simply got on our nerves. But we absolutely wanted to keep our promise that it’s a one-off. So every finished bag is still photographed from the outside and the inside and from all sides, and recorded in a database with its bag number, along with all the leathers, colours and materials used – so that at any time we can be sure we’ll be able to keep our promise even after many years, should our memory ever start to fail. Ina still keeps her beloved bag book going out of long-standing affection – effectively as a backup. To keep this transparent and understandable for you, every bag is given its bag number, permanently worked in, and we publish all bags and rucksacks on our website, where you can visit them – and of course because we’re a little proud of our children.
So your bag may one day get a little sister or a big brother, but never a twin.

Artificial intelligence and craftsmanship – do they really still go together?

Yes – in a way, if it helps: you get the best impression of a bag when it’s worn by a person. So we needed photos of people wearing our bags, so you can see how small or large they really are, despite the dimensioned drawings we also publish: centimetre measurements are simply abstract. But photographing every bag with a model would make our children so expensive that we turn to AI, so we can show you a realistic picture of how it might look on you, too. That’s our only "fall from grace" – the product photos are still taken conventionally and are not retouched; we guarantee it.

New: Sheep felt

So many women wanted to buy one of our bags, but for them leather wasn’t an option. We looked for a vegan material and chose boiled wool as our favourite. This traditional material made from 100% virgin sheep’s wool is, of course, not really vegan either, but our customers were delighted – and in the end sheep have to be shorn to feel comfortable.

So you’ll increasingly find rucksacks and bags made from boiled wool in our range. Even so, we’re staying on it to find a truly completely vegan alternative that isn’t made from petroleum derivatives and is still durable and hard-wearing. Because, after all, the best protection for our beautiful planet is to use natural products for as long as possible.