Made once.
Worn always.
A small leather workshop in Riyadh. Each piece is cut, skived, and saddle-stitched by hand — one at a time, to last a lifetime.
Each piece, by one pair of hands.
Every item in our catalogue is drawn, cut, skived, glued, stitched, edged, and waxed by Hazel and one apprentice. We make a small number of pieces — about forty a month — and we do not scale.
If you would like something different — a thread colour, an unusual hide, a name set in gilt — you may design it yourself in the customiser. Your build sheet returns to us as the spec we work from.
Plainly answered.
Bespoke leather has a thousand opinions and very few honest ones. We answer plainly: what we use, how long it takes, what we charge, and what is possible.
Hands, not machines.
Every seam is saddle-stitched with two needles and a single waxed thread. No sewing machine touches our leather.
Made for the long run.
Vegetable-tanned hides take a patina over years rather than years off your wallet. The bevels stay sharp; the colour deepens.
Tuscan hides only.
We buy whole sides from Conceria Walpier and Badalassi Carlo and grade them on grain, temper, and pull before we cut.
Repaired forever.
Every piece comes with a lifetime guarantee. Stitch comes loose, edge wears, you misplace a strap — bring it back.
Selected pieces
All pieces
From hide to hand-feel.
Hazel, at the bench.
I trained as a saddler, then spent two years learning bookbinding in Florence. The benches were different. The hands were the same.
Twelve years on, the craft has not changed. The chisel is still 4.0 mm. The thread is still waxed linen. The bevel is still cut at twenty-two degrees.
— Hazel