Made by hand · Full-grain leather · Released in small numbers · Shipped worldwide
Flores Tamez — Fine Leather Goods
Cigar holders, card wallets and bifolds — cut by knife, joined by hand-waxed thread, each worked from a single solid piece of full-grain. Hides from the most closely held tanneries in the world, made slowly over days, to be carried a lifetime. Released in small numbers. Rarely repeated.
The finest hides in the world, cut by knife and saddle-stitched one pass at a time, finished over days by a single pair of hands — the way the great houses worked before they grew too large to do it. Made slowly. Made once. Made for the people who know.
The core pieces, in full-grain black and brown. Made to outlast the man who carries them.
Single pieces in leathers that come once. Only what is made — and when one sells, it is gone, never repeated.
A single piece can take days. We have never found a way to hurry it that we would be willing to sign.
One full-grain skin, chosen by hand for grain, pull-up, and how it will age over a lifetime.
Every panel cut and skived by hand. No two hides behave alike, and none is rushed.
Two needles, thread we wax ourselves, one stitch at a time — the strongest seam leather has known.
Edges pared, sanded and burnished over days until they shine like glass. Then it is signed.
The great tanneries hold their finest hides for a very short list, and we are on it. Full-grain calf, shell cordovan with a mirror shine, and exotic skins reserved for a handful of hands — each chosen for its grain and how it will age, and rarely seen twice. Worked from a single solid piece — never layered, never lined.
Full-grain calfThe finest cut there is — it earns a patina instead of wearing out, and only grows richer.
Shell cordovanThe rarest leather there is, prized for a glow that only grows with the years.
Exotic skinsReserved a single skin at a time. When one is gone, it does not come again.
Every Flores Tamez piece is designed, cut and stitched by one person. Full-grain leather throughout, joined with a saddle stitch pulled by hand — the strongest, longest-living seam leather has ever known.
The thread is the finest there is, hand-waxed at the bench so it lasts as long as the leather. The highest materials, one careful pair of hands, and all the time a piece needs — made for the people who know.
If it carries my mark, it left my bench finished by hand.Francisco Flores
There is no commission, and no waiting room — only what is made, and what is left. Pieces are released in small numbers and rarely repeated. Join the list to be told, quietly, when the next ones exist.
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