Prima Materia
Process

In 100% vegetable-tanned leather, handcrafted in South Italy. Every process is Artisan. A work of repetition, patience, and precision. This is what makes every piece similar, but never identical.
Every piece passes through five moments. The pattern, the cut, the dye, the drying, the build. None of them is quick, and none is the same as the one before. The leather behaves as it wants. It stretches, it shrinks, it takes colour differently every time. The work is to follow it rather than to correct it.

THE TANNING
Bark, leaves and roots, over weeks. The fast method takes a day and a bath of chromium salts. Neither is used here.



THE CUT
One skin, one piece, cut by hand. The pattern is laid on the hide and moved until it fits what the hide has; where the skin runs out, the garment stops.



THE STITCH
Five hundred scar-stitches on Rubedo, by hand. The stitch is left proud rather than buried, because a seam that shows is a seam that can be repaired.




WHAT LASTS
Vegetable-tanned leather can be fed, repaired and re-dyed. A piece made this way should outlast the person who buys it, and that is the part we cannot make any faster.














In the photographs the pieces are almost always hanging. That is not styling. Leather is kept hung, with room around it, away from heat. Folded, it takes a crease and keeps it.





