Film Noir Buff Style Forum / Bespoke leather accessories

IGOR'S · 2010-11-02 17:04:22

Did you order bespoke leather garment anytime?
It's very interesting for me.
I am a maker of accessories from Velikiy Novgorod, Russia.
Brand name is IGOR SEM'ONOV.
I make bags wallets belts e t.c. 20 years (from 1991).
Igor

sefpoter · 2010-11-03 00:16:16

A bespoke service is also integral to the Ettinger offering and is of growing interest to individuals and businesses around the world.I have used this leather.It is very best leather.This beautiful leather case is designed to carry and protect all your fishing accessories in one piece of luggage.

IGOR'S · 2010-11-03 00:51:42

Thank you, I know about Ettinger. Do they make real bespoke? I mean full manufacturing process. From individual design project till ready item.
Thanks again,
Igor

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Cruz Diez · 2010-11-03 03:51:27

IGOR'S · 2010-11-03 15:18:36

Thanks,
Aprilinparis makes very well accessories. Does she make individual items? Or may be she only has change colors and kind of leather and sizes, but use basic design.
For example I never made the same item twice. Every item could be absolutely as new project.
Firstly I should make sketches. After that we choice leather and make the item.

Cruz Diez · 2010-11-03 16:04:50

Pablo Morales · 2010-11-11 13:41:11

Hello.

I am new to forum. This is my post number one. I find this by search and I think this is what I am looking for. Thank you for aprilinparis and other sights! Sorry for my bad English.:-)

Best regards!

Pablo

Grossgrain Silk · 2010-11-11 14:02:06

My leather accessories start with a blank piece of paper on which the craftsman lovingly sketches my design, which is customised to my height, weight and wrist size. That task takes almost 3 weeks. Then we decide together on the texture and sheen of the leather. Only then will we go together to the countryside near where I live to search for the perfect cow, from which my accessory will be made. Once the animal is slaughtered, its hide is tanned in the vegetable tanning pits of Germany, where I insist it is individually transported so that no scratches are imposed on its glistening perfection.

On removal from the pit, the hide is lovingly dyed according to my personal specification. The perfect colour is a cross between mocha, black cherry and Horween No 8. The leather is then polished and shined with pure beeswax into which 3 drops of the specially (and lovingly) prepared dye has been inserted by a pipette made of pure 75% lead crystal. It is then lovingly polished by 6 virgins for a month, they resting neither day nor night, until the colour has been lovingly expressed in a rich sheen.

Only then can construction commence. Woe betide my artisan if I see anything other than pure boar bristle and catgut near my accessory! I insist on a minimum of 300 stitches per inch, each one of which must be precisely aligned with those on either side. A mistake means that the item must be started again with the selection of a new cow.

I ordered my accessory 20 years ago and I believe it will be ready for my retirement.

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IGOR'S · 2010-11-28 15:44:20

What do you think about my new briefcase?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WLL__0zWpnA/TPLUCSasBJI/AAAAAAAABB8/PTDJSMeoDmo/s1600/folio%2B01.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WLL__0zWpnA/TPLT-4bKghI/AAAAAAAABB0/h4kcu0Uoexs/s1600/folio%2B02.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WLL__0zWpnA/TPLT5Eo8iQI/AAAAAAAABBk/CW-POarJUOs/s1600/folio%2B04.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WLL__0zWpnA/TPLT8LpwTgI/AAAAAAAABBs/B1QNIrWbFl0/s1600/folio%2B03.jpg

IGOR'S · 2010-12-02 09:46:53

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Grossgrain Silk · 2010-12-02 10:55:43

NJS · 2010-12-02 11:07:03

GGS - you have omitted the forging, engraving and gemstone ornamentation of the buckles, clasps etc.; not to mention the packaging in gold-leafed vellum made from the skin of wild Kashmiri goats.

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g- · 2010-12-02 11:15:00

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Grossgrain Silk · 2010-12-02 11:24:44

Kingstonian · 2010-12-02 11:36:20

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g- · 2010-12-02 17:16:24

Sator · 2010-12-02 18:18:30

Although the iGents generally only talk to a great extent about Vass and the odd Czech shoemaker, in fact, behind the old iron curtain was a kind of bespoke maker's paradise. There large manufacturer's with aggressive advertising never squashed the little maker with drafting square and sheers in hand. Word of mouth was the main advertising, and as on the internet today it tended to praise small scale, high quality makers. It was a little like the state of the arts in the old Soviet block - very well supported.

I have a surprisingly large proportion of Russian tailors on my website. Enough that I have to post house keeping issues in Russian. I have also peeked into some Russian fora where they discuss this sort of thing and it is amazing!!!! I also have one excellent tailor from the old East Germany. The schools in East Berlin were a continuation of the Weimar and Imperial Era Prussian schools, and they were incredibly technically sophisticated. Interestingly, the East German journals often carry an index in both Russian and German, suggesting that those in the Motherland continued to absorb German ideas in much the same way that they took German rocket technology into space. The Soviet block actually allowed these bespoke cutting schools to continue longer than in the West.

It surprises me little that there would be talented shoemakers and leather workers out there as well.

Cruz Diez · 2010-12-03 01:59:53

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