Our history
Since 2016
Two rooms, one machine and a borrowed cutting table. Six decisions later, this is where the house is.
Since 2016
Ten years, six turns
The six decisions that changed what the workshop could make, in the order they were taken.
Two rooms on Ninth Lane
Naa Adjeley Tetteh took two rooms in Osu with one industrial machine and a cutting table borrowed from a tailor down the street. The first year was bags only, because a bag was the thing she had wanted and could not buy.
The tannery in Kumasi
Until then the leather was bought finished, by the metre, from whoever had it that month. We went up to a tannery in Kumasi and started ordering by the skin, full grain and vegetable tanned, and we have bought from the same yard ever since.
Upstairs
The floor above the shop came free and the workshop moved into it. The bench doubled, the machines went in over the customers' heads, and you can hear them from the shop on any weekday morning.
The Elmina Weekender
A year to get right, and still the hardest thing the workshop makes: a skived base, two zips and a lining that has to be finished before the bag is closed. Kofi Mensah-Bonsu cuts every one of them himself.
Thirty eight countries
Boxes went out to thirty eight countries, most of them one at a time. Everything that leaves Accra carries the repair note in the lid, because a bag that comes back to us is cheaper than a customer who does not.
Made to measure
Opened in the spring, for tailoring and for bags. You come in and we take the measurements, or you send us a garment that fits and the workshop matches it. Four to six weeks, either way.
Counted
Where that leaves us
Four numbers from the end of last year. We change them when they change.
Years since the first two rooms
People in the workshop
Orders shipped last year
Countries we ship to
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.