Leather handbags

Handbags and leather bags have been around for many centuries. Nowadays, there are leather bags and handbags in an infinite number of variations. For bags and handbags, the leather of almost all animal species is processed and every known leather processing method is used.

Brands of bag manufacturers

Handbags are available from the finest brands and therefore the range of prices is high. Often the most expensive brands are copied and sold as fakes on the black market.

Originals and ......

fakes......

Design of leather handbags

There are infinite possibilities for designing leather handbags. The design is defined by the processed types of leather, by the form and by motifs on leather.

Forms of leather handbags

The variation in the form of handbags has no limits.

Large variety of shapes of www.mygretchen.com.

Motifs on leather

Motifs on leather can be created by embossing. But leather can also be painted, perforated, embroidered or decorated with buttons or other decorations.

Handbags provided with a beautiful embossing (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany)

Very old handbags from Japan provided with an embossing, painted and covered with decorations (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany).

Very old handbags provided with an embossing and partly also painted (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany)

Very old handbags, probably deformed with moisture and heat. Another theory: The leather is coated with a kind of glue and shaped with a special sliding method (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany).

Very old handbags. The grain of a special type of coral shark leather is exceptional (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany)

Patent leather handbag.

Gold leather handbag. - Handbag of metallic leather.

Carved handbag from Mexico. - Hedgehog handbag with fine cutting work from Moscow.

Beautiful leather handbags handmade by Selestudio.

Leather of various animal species

For bags and handbags, the leather of different animal species is used.

Cane toad leather

Cane toad leather with inbuilt head with glass eyes approximately from 1930 (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany).

Alligator

Alligator leather approximately from 1940 (from the collection of Ms. Ursula Kayser from Göttingen - Germany). - Alligator handbag with inbuilt head from the 50s.