Where Our Leather Begins
A morning at our Israeli leather house — searching, touching, and choosing the rare materials that become tomorrow's pieces.
Most of our leather travels directly from Italy to our workshop. But every now and then, when a piece calls for something rare — a texture, a finish, a color we've never used before — we drive out to Aerotex, our Israeli importer, and spend the morning walking the floor. What you find there changes from week to week. That is part of the magic.
Hillel walks the floor at Aerotex — a private tour through the materials behind our work.
Why we come here
Aerotex is one of the largest leather houses in Israel. Most of our work uses leathers we already know intimately — specific Italian hides we order again and again because they have proven themselves through years of craft. But Aerotex carries something else: special stuff. Roll-by-roll discoveries, often one of a kind.
It is also the unpredictability that draws us back. If I find a special roll today, they may not have it tomorrow. That impermanence is exactly what makes some of our custom pieces feel so personal — the leather they're made from will never exist again in quite the same way.
Walking the warehouse
The room divides itself naturally. To one side, the soft skins — lamb, goat, and sheep — hang in ordered rows, each with its own character. Some are left in their natural grain; others arrive finished in gold, silver, or a quiet metallic sheen. To touch them is to understand why they're chosen for the most delicate of our pieces.
Across the floor, the cowhides lie heavier and broader. These are the materials of furniture houses and automobile interiors — supple, expansive, and built to last decades. They tell a different story than the soft skins. Both have a place in our work, but they speak in entirely different voices.
A roll of pull-up leather
We were searching for a specific brown — something rich, with depth, with movement. We found it on a quiet shelf near the back: a pull-up leather, the kind that rewards every bend and crease with a shift in tone. Run your hand across it and the surface lightens; release the pressure and the color returns. It is leather that remembers being touched.
Pull-up leathers are not for every project. They live in the hands of the people who carry them, picking up each story along the way. For the next product we are designing, that is precisely the point.
"If I find a special roll today, they might not have it tomorrow. That's the nature of this craft."Hillel Mor
Chrome and vegetable
Every leather we work with begins with one essential decision — how it was tanned. The choice shapes everything that follows: the feel, the strength, the way the material ages on the body of the person who carries it.
Vegetable Tan
Tanned slowly using natural plant matter. The result is thick, firm, and unmistakably alive — a leather that holds its shape with quiet authority. We reserve it for our gun holsters, knife sheaths, and select wallets. It is the language of objects meant to be relied upon.
Chrome Tan
A faster, chemical process that yields a softer, more pliable hide. Chrome tan is the leather of comfort and movement — it bends easily, drapes naturally, and accepts color with extraordinary range. Most of our bag work begins here.
For our high-end clients
Toward the end of every visit, there is a quieter room. A private closet. This is where the exotics live — the materials we keep for clients who request something extraordinary. Ostrich, most often in deep black, but also in browns, pinks, and reds we sometimes dye further by hand. Smaller crocodile pieces. Rare furs.
We do not show this material on our website. We do not promote it in our collections. It exists for the very few who ask for it specifically, and for the pieces we make — quietly, carefully — for them. Today we left with a small selection. One of them, perhaps, will become part of a future ladies' bag.
Every piece you find in our collection began with a morning like this one. A choice made by hand, on a floor full of options, with someone whose only job is to feel the difference between one leather and another and know which one belongs in your story.
