Ranabhai
Leatherworker, Bhuj
Ranabhai has saddle-stitched leather in Bhuj for over fifteen years, using the same waxed-thread technique his father taught him.
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Bhuj · Kutch · Gujarat
The soul of Kutch lives in every stitch.
Leather cut, stitched and embroidered by artisan families who have worked this craft for generations. No factory, no shortcuts.
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What the workshop makes
Stitched by hand, not machine
Every bag is saddle-stitched by a leather worker in Bhuj — two needles, one waxed thread.
Vegetable-tanned leather
Buffalo hide tanned with bark, not chrome. It smells like leather and ages into a patina.
Small batches of 8–15
We make what the workshop can finish well in a week. When a piece sells out, it waits its turn.
COD and 7-day returns
Pay on delivery anywhere in India. Send it back within 7 days if it isn't right.
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The craft
Two pairs of hands, three to five days
In the villages around Bhuj, leatherwork and embroidery have never been separate trades. A leather worker cuts the hide, wets it, shapes it over a wooden form and saddle-stitches the seams by hand — two needles crossing through one hole, the way a camel saddle was stitched a century ago.
The embroidered panel comes from a different house altogether. Women of the Rabari and Ahir communities work mirror, chain and interlacing stitch at home, in daylight, between cooking and cattle. A single panel can take a full day.
That is why our batches are small and why no two pieces are identical. A slightly different mirror placement, a thread that sits a little differently — that's the hand of the person who made it, not a defect.
The people
Meet the Hands Behind It
Hansaben
Embroidery, Rabari community
Hansaben works mirror and chain stitch at home between cooking and cattle. One panel takes her a full day, sometimes two.
Jayesh
Cutting and finishing, Bhuj
Jayesh reads the hide before he cuts it, keeping the tighter grain for straps. He has been at the bench for six years.
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Hear when a batch comes off the bench
One quiet email when new pieces are finished. No sale spam, because we don't run sales.