Why choose handmade?

In 2024 alone the global fashion/apparel industry generated 92 million tons of textile waste. Sustainable Fashion Industry Statistics Statistics: ZipDo Education Reports 2025 Sustainability In The Clothing Industry Statistics: Reports 2025

Around 85% of textiles were discarded to landfills. Beyond the Tag - Fast Fashion Infographic

According to one report, luxury brands typically have gross profit margins around 70‑80%, meaning production cost might only be 20‑30% of the retail price. How the Retail Luxury & Fashion Industries Work | Umbrex

For example: LVMH’s group EBIT margin was ~23.1% in 2024. Analysing LVMH’s Margins and Profitability - APLF Limited

I know we’ve all seen the videos of these luxury giants getting “exposed” for their obscene profit margins, unethical labor practices and even false advertising. Saying something is “handmade in Italy” is a loophole that they commonly jump through by telling you it was handmade or hand stitched when in reality only one piece of the bag was assembled in Italy.

Let’s face it, modern luxury brands in this late stage of capitalism only care about one thing : profit. If they can make it cheaper while giving the illusion of higher value, they will.

Enter makers like myself.

There are other options on the market that are actually handmade, that have years (or in my case a decade) of experience going into every piece.

That actually take the time necessary to create an heirloom product.

That the profit margins are fair and actually go towards supporting real families like mine.

We are the future. Makers like myself, Hemlock and Hyde, Sunhouse Goods, Tanner leatherstine and so many more. (I am criminally underrepresenting the full spectrum of bag makers, but they exist.)

If you cant afford makers like us, go thrifting for your bags and clothes. OR even better, learn to make them yourself.

I will be releasing a free video series going into detail from day-1 beginner to 10,000-hour master leatherworking skills so more people can take power back into their own homes.

The world is changing, as it always does, and the tides are shifting. We the people are sick of being lied to, turned into data, seen as numbers on a spreadsheet, sold status symbols to fill the void in our hearts only the divine logos, Christ, can fill.

It is my mission to sell the highest quality leather goods possible, and to teach others how to do the same.

The more self-reliant we become as a people, the more creativity we foster, the less we become cogs in the machine of modernity.

Come with me on this journey of usurping Big Luxury, bringing creativity back into our homes and crafting actual handmade heirloom goods that will be used for generations, and look damn good doing it.