Hand-Tooled vs Injection-Moulded Luxury Bags — The Construction Difference

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Hand-tooled leather bags and injection-moulded bags look similar from three feet. At three inches, the difference is everything. Our master artisans explain what to look for.

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The word 'handmade' appears on the tags of bags assembled in factories by workers performing single repetitive tasks on a production line. The word 'artisan' appears on bags made by injection moulding. Neither is technically false — and both are deeply misleading.

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