Luna Lenore
Ethically Handcrafted
Every Luna Lenore bag is cut, stitched and finished by a circle of nine artisans in central Mexico — in batches small enough that we know every maker by name.
Full-grain leather, solid brass, hand-burnished edges. Choose your colourway — each one is cut to order.
Made by hands
we know by name.
Nine people. One cutting table. Ana cuts, Lupita skives and folds, Marisol runs the hand-stitching along every edge — and Verónica signs the care card before a bag is allowed to leave the room.
Luna Lenore starts in 2023 — not with a storefront, but with an idea Verónica could not put down, a stack of leathercraft courses, and a single cutting table in San Luis Potosí.
What she wanted was simple and stubborn: leather goods made slowly, by people paid properly, in numbers small enough to actually care about. Three years later the room is bigger, the table is the same, and the rule has not moved.
Today Verónica works alongside eight artisans — most of them women from the same neighbourhood, several of whom had never touched leather before she taught them. They earn a fixed monthly wage well above the regional average, not piece rate, so nobody is ever rushed into a bad stitch.
It is why we release four or five colourways a season instead of forty, why a hide gets rejected for a scar you would never notice, and why we have never run a sale. The price is what it costs to do it right.
See how it's madeFrom a raw hide to a finished bag, here is what actually happens — over roughly three days, in one room.
Vegetable-tanned, by-product hides from certified Mexican tanneries. Verónica rejects roughly one in four for scars or uneven grain.
Every panel is traced and cut by hand around the natural marks of the hide. Offcuts are saved and become card holders and keychains.
Saddle-stitched by hand with waxed linen thread — slower than a machine, and it will not unravel if a single stitch breaks.
Edges are sanded, painted and burnished four times, then the whole bag is sealed with beeswax and left to rest overnight.
Three small edits from the workshop — grouped by how they are actually carried.
Cut and stitched in our San Luis Potosí atelier by nine artisans earning a fair, above-market wage.
Vegetable-tanned, by-product hides from certified Mexican tanneries. Offcuts become our small goods.
On every order, no minimum. Duties paid, tracked delivery from our Texas fulfilment partner in 3–5 business days.
Change your mind within 30 days and we'll send a prepaid label. Repairs are free for life.
