The atelier
A small studio for slow pieces.
Two collections a year. Every piece hand-finished, sent with a paper tag, built to wear summer after summer. The work is measured in hours.
Manifesto
Why we make this way
The fastest way to make a tote is to glue it. The slowest way is to knot every strand of seagrass by hand and finish the leather strap with linen thread. We do it the slow way.
Not because slow is romantic. Because slow is honest. A bag that took eight hours to make is a bag that took eight hours of someone's life. That work shows up later — in the way it holds its shape, in the way the handle wears, in the way it ages alongside you.
Two collections a year. Made of straw, seagrass, crochet cotton, linen. Nothing synthetic, nothing rushed — the kind of pieces that find a place in your wardrobe and stay there.
Process
How a piece is made
Choose the fiber
Seagrass from coastal cooperatives. Crochet cotton from small-batch spinners. Linen, bamboo, raw straw. Each fiber chosen for how it lives in your hand.
Build slowly, in small runs
Every tote is hand-knotted, every kimono hand-embroidered. Workshop runs stay small enough to inspect each piece twice before it ships.
Paper tag, fabric wrap
Each piece arrives wrapped in unbleached cotton with a paper hang tag and a note. The hands that made it stay in the seams.
"I wanted to make pieces I'd still want to wear a decade later. So I made them slowly." — Founder, Boha Sugera
Materials & care
Honest about what's in your hands
- Straw & seagrass
- Sourced from coastal cooperatives. Hand-knotted, never glued. Reshape gently if it folds in transit.
- Crochet cotton
- Small-batch spun, hand-crocheted. Pre-washed. Hand-wash cold, dry flat.
- Embroidered cotton-linen
- Lightweight, breathable, made to wrinkle softly. Cold wash inside-out. Hang to dry.
- Production
- Two collections a year, finished by hand in small workshop runs. Each piece quality-checked before it leaves the atelier.