Versatile leather craftsmanship that transcends gender: a beautiful bag everyone covets.
Back when my dad still lived and worked in Estonia, he
used to carry around a stack of papers and a pile of folders every day in a textile
bag which had seen better days and was often paired with a plastic
bag for carrying groceries home after work. It is a well-known
fact that the shoemaker always goes barefoot but that does not mean that the
shoemaker’s father should find himself in a similar predicament! Thanks to my
mother who managed to successfully combine her daughter’s trade, husband’s need
for a bag and a forthcoming celebration, my father received a bag designed by
me as birthday present from my family.
The days of carrying tonnes of documents around with him are over, now my father wanders on the cobbled streets of Old Towns in Europe with tulips peeping out from the bag. He recently got himself a bike which means that he only needs a basket and he is ready to cruise around with his custom-made leather accessory without a care in the world.
The bag that I designed for my father turned out to be
like a man’s shirt which women love to wear. It was incredibly hard for me to
part with it because it provided exactly the right dose of masculinity to
balance out my love of miniskirts! Similarly, my mother is known to have adorned
herself with someone else’s feathers and stolen my father’s bag now and then to
enjoy the compliments which the masculine accessory seems to be attracting.
Oh well, at least it stayed in the family. If I am totally honest with you, designing a bag for my father inspired me to finally get myself together and make an everyday bag for myself too! Eventually even the shoemaker ends up with a pair of shoes!
