How Camille Fournet makes bags and watch straps

Watched these videos today and while they are a little long winded there is some good stuff in them. I think anyone watching me work would think I'm slow and boring as well.

Thanks for posting them.

Thank you soooo much for sharing! I just finished watching the video about bag making, it's highly useful for me! Thanks!

@andimh Thank you for sharing that! It's extremely rare to see a brand going that in-depth into their bag making processes.

What's really cool are the interactive parts to the video where you can make certain parts go back and forth as if you are doing them yourself. Very smart marketing and a unique approach.

Interesting to see a very prominent timeline actively encouraging you to skip ahead to more interesting parts without the video stopping. They know you aren't likely to watch 100% of it.

I only watched the bag video for now, and did no finish all of it. This video makes watching the Corter youtube video enjoyable... I mean, I have never met a leather related video I was not able to watch to the end, untill now... It was soooo tedious. I mean, 5mins of someone clicking leather on a machine, or 3mins of someone applying glue to a strap...

I honestly believe that marketing wise, they completly missed the mark. This is a video that clients will never watch in full, they might skim through it, but I do not believe someone who is not as pasionnate about leather manufacturing as we are could watch all of it.

Also, they Saddle Stitch all of their straps... using a machine! That was just wrong.

On a side note, I quite enjoyed seeing the hand movements of the craftswoman (when she was allowed to work, and not just operate a machine). Specially when she was folding the edges to glue them, so smooth, so efficient!

Also, I was wondering what is the advantage of using a brass roller for the first coat of edge paint and then an awl on the second one? Apart from volume applied I guess?

I will watch the watch strap video, and leave my thoughts here. Here it is to hoping it is a bit more bearable to watch.