Lucy is a designer and artisan of contemporary handbags and accessories, from Cambridge, England.
Her work balances traditional hand-tooling practices, with modernist form-making, to create pieces of distinction, and timeless simplicity.
All products are handmade by herself, within her studio at Cockpit Arts, Deptford.
Each product is crafted using the finest vegetable-tanned leather and organic cottons.
Thank you for supporting her practice.
The Brand
Her first ready-to-wear collection launched in Autumn 2023, titled ‘Lavender In Hand’.
This project had been formulating in my mind since 2020. The pandemic triggered a life-reset for me, causing me to leave London, and locate back to Cambridgeshire. Once there, the pandemic-induced quiet around me was palpable, forcing the elements of the surrounding Fenlands to creep into my senses; now heightened by those serene days and nights.
Within this seemingly supernatural state, I began to access creative avenues, long abandoned for commerciality, leading to an unmooring of traditional making practices.
What emerged, was a series of bag samples that re-captured my days as a Cordwainer student. The wet-moulded curves, the patiently hand-stitched seams, and the surfaces lovingly-lacquered, all combined to speak a language of a brand that stands for low-impact production, and longevity.
Our Practice
All of our products are produced by hand from vegetable-tanned leather. This is currently the most environmentally responsible leather, as each skin is processed using a combination of naturally occurring tannins such as tree bark, wood, leaves and fruit pods. This ancient process creates a distinctively beautiful material that's rich in tone and natural markings which cannot be emulated by chemically tanned or plastic-faux leather. Through the process of vegetable tanning, leather can mature beautifully over the passage of time. Thus giving each product a unique and personal quality.
For more information regarding the care of our vegetable tanned products, please contact the studio directly at studio@lucywelton.com