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Why we do not do seasonal colours

    Why we do not do seasonal colours

    Sora Ikia Sep 8, 2026

    Twice a year the industry announces a new colour and quietly retires the old one. We have never done it, and the reason is less about taste than about what...

    Repair log 0412, a tote that came back after nine years

      Repair log 0412, a tote that came back after nine years

      Sora Ikia Sep 8, 2026

      It arrived in a supermarket carrier bag with a note that said, sorry about the state of it. Here is what we did, and what we could not do.

      Reading grain, and why no two hides are the same

        Reading grain, and why no two hides are the same

        Sora Ikia Sep 8, 2026

        A hide arrives at our workshop carrying the whole life of the animal on its surface. Learning to read it is the difference between a bag that ages well and...

        How we burnish an edge in four passes, by hand

          How we burnish an edge in four passes, by hand

          Sora Ikia Sep 8, 2026

          The edge is the first part of a bag to fail and the last part anyone thinks about. Here is what happens at our bench between the cut and the...