Name: Bringing Handmade Back to America
Uploaded: 2020-03-07T16:42:19.000Z
Duration: 7 min 43 s
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Past simple

- It's an ode to the way that things used to be made.

It's not just something that's been mass produced

The imperative

or put through a line and made millions of.

We make them hand-by-hand, individually, each one.

But how do we make something without cutting any corners?

and I am the Creative Director at Lotuff Leather.

that's gonna get more beautiful as you use it.

And that was always the ethos for the company.

But it's actually a very complicated bag.

It's one of the most difficult bags that we make.

Takes about four to six weeks to make each one.

And the bag has about 61 individual pieces in each bag.

Our hides all come from a family-owned tannery.

Our leather is all made specially for us.

All of the leather is fully vegetable tanned,

so no chromium, no formaldehyde, nothing in the base.

If you've ever had a piece of leather goods

and there's white that's showing through,

that means that there's actually some sort of chemical

or chromium inside the leather that's causing it to rust.

It'll get more beautiful and patina as you use it.

You're also looking for imperfections in the hide.

So tick bites, scars, open cuts, anything like that,

just making sure at the beginning process that you find it.

and all 61 of those pieces are cut from one hide.

You're actually getting someone who laid out that cut

They all get cut and individually numbered.

And then we'll bring them over to the splitter.

Splitting is taking the leather and making it thinner.

We have different weights for every part of the bag.

and we measure it to actually the 10th of an ounce.

Once everything is split, it goes to the grinding station.

The grinding station is where all of the pieces are shaped.

All of those pieces are shaped and ground

From the grinding station it moves to the painting station.

to every one person at every other station.

and they essentially raise the grain of the leather

and then they bring it over to the buffing machine

And then they bring it back to the painting station

and then they paint another coat of edge dye

with all 61 of those pieces at the minimum of three times,

And they will finish it until it's right.

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