Choose a cute and chic style with the Mini-Alfa!
With its handles, adjustable strap and snap closure, it has everything of a real handbag. It can easily hold the essentials for any outing with lightness and practicality.
Features:
- Dimensions: 28 cm wide, 19.5 cm high
- Weight: approximately 0.3 kg
- 15 mm wide strap, adjustable between approximately 87 cm and 140 cm with a buckle, and removable thanks to two snap hooks.
- Handles
- Snap closure.
- No internal pocket.
Leather and care:
We collaborate with the Italian tannery Virgilio Conceria Artigliana , specializing in ecological vegetable tanning .
This is full-grain cowhide (with the epidermis) of French, Swiss or Norwegian origin. More specifically, from the part of the animal's neck that we call the neck . It is the part of the skin that contains the most collagen, a protein that gives leather flexibility and strength. It is also a part of the skin that gathers physical and natural characteristics inherent to the skin: folds or wrinkles.
This leather is dyed through and through with natural pigments. A thin layer of natural resin is applied to the epidermis to improve its patina.
This tanning is specially designed to obtain a pronounced patina over time. Friction and handling will polish the leather, which will shine more and more over time. Marks and traces of use will also be preserved and contribute to the patina that gives this nobility to this premium leather.
The patina protects your leather, in absolute terms it is a tanning that requires little maintenance. However, like all skins, it needs to be lightly nourished 1 time per month for 4 months, then 2 times a year (use the leather care balm provided). Unpleasant marks, stains or glued materials can be removed with the natural rubber crepe that is used like an eraser.
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In our Marseille workshop, we have chosen to work exclusively with leather called "full grain" for all our designs. Unlike leather crust taken from the dermis, full grain leather is leather coming from the epidermis, the strongest part of the skin, reflecting the life of the animal.
Thus some "flaws" will be visible such as wrinkles, moles, stretch marks, scars, scratches, punctures, etc. Most of the time, these traces are only surface aesthetic flaws and do not alter the resistance of the leather in any way. Leather being itself a waste product of the livestock activity, and for ecological reasons, we deliberately work with skins having some of these marks. Likewise, in order to limit waste during cutting we keep some natural flaws when they are purely aesthetic.
Colors and patina:
As you have understood, this leather acquires a significant patina over time. This patina is the appearance that the leather will keep for years, during the entire life of the product that we wish to be very long.
- Indigo blue will have a navy blue patina
- Yellow turmeric will have a saffron yellow patina
- Red will have a burgundy patina
- Camel will have a cognac patina
- Cognac will have a tan patina
- Ebony will have an ebony patina
- Black will have a black patina
Confection:
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Leather care balm (30ml), natural crepe and organic cotton pouch offered for all our leather bags.
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