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Leather goods
Hides tanned in Kumasi, cut and stitched in the room above the shop. Full grain, unlined, and repaired free for the first two years.
Everything cut upstairs
Bags, a belt and a card holder, all of them full grain and none of them lined.
6 pieces
The making
Eleven hours, one pair of hands
Kofi Mensah-Bonsu runs the room above the shop. He came to us from a saddlery in Kumasi, twenty-two years into the trade, and the hides still come from there: full grain, vegetable tanned, and bought whole so a bag can be cut around the marks in a skin rather than through them.
Nothing in this room is lined. A lining is where a bag hides its stitching, and the stitching here is meant to be looked at.
The cut
One person takes a piece from the cutting table to the box.
The Labadi Tote
Eleven hours, from the cutting table to the box.
The other four rooms
Outerwear, knitwear, tailoring and the small things, all made in the same building.
Delivery
Accra and Tema by tomorrow
Two to four working days everywhere else in Ghana, five to eight across West Africa and seven to twelve beyond it. Free in Accra and Tema over GHS 800.
Returns
Twenty-one days to change your mind
Unworn, in the box it came in, and we pay nothing towards the post. Made-to-measure and monogrammed pieces stay yours.
Repairs
Two years of mending, at no cost
On anything made in the workshop. After the second year we charge what the materials and the hours cost, and tell you the figure first.