New Duffle

[GavinO]

Hi all, I posted the last duffle I made last summer. Since then I have finished french school, got a new logo and I finally managed to design and source the straps I wanted with a supplier. Making this shape in 4 other colours to launch on etsy/my own website as soon as I can. 

Any critiques or feedback welcome.  

[Samalan]

Nice and best of luck with that it really looks professional I could see that logo and name becoming known world wide it just looks like that to me good luck .

[MtlBiker]

Wow!  What a beautiful job!  I'm sure you will be very successful and I wish you the best of luck!

 

[GavinO]

I got my sewing machine fixed, and managed to get through the set of colours I wanted to finish 

 

Purple 

blue 

[GavinO]

[GavinO]

and this is the internal of the red I finished last week 

[AzShooter]

WOW!!!

Most excellent work.  I can see you having a great business opportunity.

 

[Spyros]

They are excellent indeed, I'll be honest I'm not too keen on some of the lining choices but that might just be me, it's always good that you have a colour variety for different people.

Also the blue one having that seam parallel to the strap, I'd avoid that if possible, but other than that I really like them.  Straps are great too!

Out of curiosity (if you want to share) what price are you thinking?  And how long does it take you to make one?

Cheers

Spyro

 

[GavinO]

7 hours ago, Spyros said:

They are excellent indeed, I'll be honest I'm not too keen on some of the lining choices but that might just be me, it's always good that you have a colour variety for different people.

Also the blue one having that seam parallel to the strap, I'd avoid that if possible, but other than that I really like them.  Straps are great too!

Out of curiosity (if you want to share) what price are you thinking?  And how long does it take you to make one?

Cheers

Spyro

 

Hallo, thanks for the feedback. All the linings and leathers are excess materials sourced from furniture production. So the selection might look a little random but I have tried to pair them to be interesting. I have a background in men's formalwear and found there that men often like some crazy linings while keeping the outher of the garment more plain/simple. 

Re: the blue- this was actually a sofa in its previous life, that's where the seam comes from so I just tried to line it up to look clean - there is a matching one on the other side of the bag. Most of my leathers are excess from production but I do have a fair amount that have already been used, if I like the leather/colour I will use it. Some people specifically like having the old details as it tells more of a story, others prefer a clean make that looks like new, so I am going to try a bit of both and see how they do in the market. 

When I made these as one-offs it took me about 12 hours. I have another two to finish in this run (another purple and another red) then I am going to see if I have really managed to save time through making several at once or not (I certainly hope so, and I quite enjoyed batching little parts of the production). Pricing wise I am landing on about $400 canadian, but I still have photography/packaging and delivery logistics to work out properly so that may change. 

Thanks re: the straps, I sourced them from China and they are woven from 98% recycled post consumer polyester, I designed the puppytooth print. The whole process was a learning curve and took what felt like forever, but I am super happy with them now (I have another three colours in that design to use for other projects) 

 

[Samalan]

Wow beautiful work my friend