Woodstock, Cape Town
Our factory.
Not a partner factory in another country. Ours, a few streets from the shop, where every bag, headcover, belt and scorebook is cut, stitched and finished by the same thirty people.
Made in South Africa
Full-grain SA leatherOne roof, thirty peopleRepaired here, for life
It starts with a hide
Leather is not a uniform material. Every hide carries its own marks, its own stretch, its own thin places, and no two behave the same on a cutting table.
So the panels are cut by hand, around what the hide is actually doing rather than through it. It is slower than a die press and it is the reason a run of ten bags takes as long as it does. It is also why no two are quite identical, and why a Lovely Day For Golf bag is still holding its shape years in.
How a piece is made
01Cut
Panels marked and cut from the hide by hand, around the grain and the marks.
02Stitch
One person takes a piece from panels to finished object. Nobody assembles a fraction of it and passes it down a line.
03Personalise
Initials and monograms laser engraved into the leather in-house, which is why it adds days rather than weeks.
04Finish, and mend
Edges burnished, hardware set, checked. And when it comes back years later, it comes back to this room.
Ninety colours of thread
Racked by shade, and all of it structural. Stitching is what holds a bag together long after the leather has stopped being new, so the thread is chosen to outlive the hide rather than to match a season.
Marks go on differently. Initials and monograms are laser engraved into the leather itself, which is why they cannot peel, fray or lift, and why they are still there in twenty years.
The people
Thirty craftspeople, most of whom have been cutting and stitching leather far longer than this brand has existed. Machinists, cutters, a finishing team, and the two founders who are usually somewhere on the floor.
It matters commercially as well as sentimentally: because the making and the mending happen in the same building, the lifetime guarantee is a promise we can actually keep, and a custom order can be argued about in person rather than emailed to a supplier.
Come and see it
The shop is at the Old Biscuit Mill, a few streets from the workshop. The whole range is in one room and somebody there can tell you exactly how any of it was made.