Secrets of Manufacture
In the Hermès workshops
Did you know that Hermes, each bag is made by one craftsman? Each year, the House bought hundreds of skins for the 12 production sites all French. The most precious skins are treated in Pantin and workshop special orders rue du Faubourg St Honore.
Skin to skin
Skin bag, more than twenty steps, and all coded and identified nearly two hundred and manipulation. Epilation, exfoliation, smoothing, thinning, treatment, massage …. The skin must be perfectly smooth.
Cutting Workshop
Branch then, the studio cut. Here, each piece is numbered before being associated to the composition of the Birkin bag or Kelly. It takes three skins to a Kelly.
Crocodile and ostrich
Each Hermes bag is made by a single craftsman. Crocodile, ostrich, lizard, all the work around the “precious skins” is entrusted to experienced artisans.
Attributes Kelly
Besides its well-known trapezoidal, its hard bottom camped on four metal feet, his band, his bellows triangular, its handle carved curve and there are details essential attributes fetishes and be authenticated signature of Kelly’s the girth that intersect on the reel, the lock and the bell that protects the key.
Signature
All work is done with care, patience and love by a craftsman who takes twenty hours to sew, sewing, gluing, assembling thirty-six pieces of leather that make up the Kelly, before affixing his signature