Sometimes a new customer will contact me with concern over how to look after vegetable tanned leather. The most common question is: I’ve got a scratch on the leather.. what should do?!
Well, surface scratches are very easy to rub away on vegetable tanned leather. Technically, all it takes is gently massaging the displaced oil [...]
Two of our designs have been featured in the Financial Times in an article about women’s bags that ‘work, rest and play’. They were looking for bags that work in tandem to deliver function, flexibility and a certain fabulousness.
The FT chose our Amelia (packed with pockets and lots of room while remaining elegant and sleek) [...]
Me hand-stitching with two needles, linen thread and veg-tanned leather…
… and not forgetting G, helping me out here with a men’s attache design…
I’ve just had another ‘fix’ at Val and Neil’s leather workshops up the road in Tetbury.
I’ve been working on some bag designs to go into my SS08 collection and, with the factory so [...]
A while ago I mentioned a visitor who I later found out was an artist living in Hawaii. We keep in touch every once in a while, and she updates me on the building of their dream home amongst acres of steamy tropical forest.
Well, I’ve recently had another lovely visitor on the diary.
Maryam dropped by [...]
The upside of starting your own business is the freedom to do things your way. Every day is an adventure in possibility. There’s always an opportunity to follow or an improvement to be made or a new design to try out.
The downside is that you never find time to book a holiday and you rarely [...]
I’m getting quite a few questions about what colour to buy… people love the Rhubarb and Ginger colours, but are a bit new to goat skin and how it will wear.
To get an idea of how it looks with use, this is my Villa Tote and Extrovert’s Card Case, my original samples, which I’ve been [...]
Sorry there hasn’t been a post for a while…
I won’t say things have got out of hand, but suddenly everyone seems to have realised it’s Christmas next weekend. We’re all hands on deck here at Bown wrapping and ribboning and boxing and couriering to get everything delivered in a timely fashion. We’re still taking orders [...]
In our recent shoot, I wanted our model Rosy to do a little sashaying outside my local laundrette “The Dolly Tub” with the Villa Tote… having a bit of fun with our ‘everyday luxury’ theme.
What I had previously failed to notice (after 20 years living around the corner) was the fact that the laundrette was [...]
