Madeby hand

  1. 01 MarkThe pattern is scored into the hide with an awl.
  2. 02 CutPanels are cut by hand around the grain.
  3. 03 BurnishEvery edge is waxed and rubbed smooth as glass.
  4. 04 RivetThe handle is set with solid brass.
  5. 05 CarryFourteen hours later, it's yours.

One maker, one hide, fourteen hours. Keep scrolling to watch a HENDRIK tote come together, stitch by stitch.

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The house

One pair of hands, one hide, one bag at a time. No glue where a stitch belongs, no plastic where brass will do.

Every HENDRIK piece is cut, stitched and burnished by Anshare Leather from full-grain, vegetable-tanned hides that darken and soften with you. We make fewer things, and we fix them for as long as you own them.

Inside the workshop

The
collection

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Fourteen
hours a bag

Four hands-on stages
An artisan cutting a pattern from a cognac hide with a round knife
01

Cut

Each panel is laid out by eye around the hide's scars and grain, then cut with a round knife. The best of the hide goes where your hand goes.

Hand saddle stitching with waxed linen thread
02

Stitch

Two needles, one waxed linen thread, around six hundred stitches. A saddle stitch can't unravel even if one breaks.

Burnishing a leather edge with a wooden slicker
03

Finish

Edges are sanded, dyed and burnished with beeswax until they shine like glass. No paint, no plastic edge coat.

Hands setting a solid brass rivet into a cognac tote handle with a hand press
04

Assemble

Handles are set with solid brass rivets, pressed by hand one at a time. Nothing here will snap, peel or tarnish to grey.

A finished cognac tote standing on a workshop bench beside thread, a round knife and a wool dauber

Then it's yours — and it only gets better from here.

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Stacks of vegetable-tanned hides on wooden shelves

Hide
first.

0Hours per bag
0Hand stitches
0Maker, start to finish
∞Years of repairs

Carried,
not kept

Leather is finished by the life it lives. Some of ours, out in the world.

A man crossing a wet stone plaza with a dark brown weekender
Weekender 48 — Espresso
A woman seated on steps beside a cognac tote
Tote No. 1 — Cognac
A black messenger bag hanging on a brass hook
Courier Messenger — Black
A person on a coastal cliff wearing a tan rolltop backpack
Rolltop Pack — Tan
The HENDRIK maker's mark blind-debossed into full-grain cognac leather
The HENDRIK promise

Made once.
Mended forever.

  • 01
    Lifetime repairs

    Send it back at any age — restitching, new hardware, edge work. Free for the first five years.

  • 02
    Complimentary shipping over €250

    Tracked and insured, wrapped in unbleached cotton.

  • 03
    30-day returns

    Live with it for a month. If it isn't right, send it back.