Here at RJ Leather Studio we pride ourselves on utmost quality of leather craftsmanship in handbag making. We specialise in soft turned leather handbags using industrial sewing machines, achieving a very high standard professional finish product. We work with chrome tanned, vegetable tanned leathers and some vegan leathers.

Our focus is to support all start up brands and designers by providing a service in product development, sampling and small production runs.

Our sampling is charged at £35 per hour. We can assist you with creating the pattern from a spec sheet and then producing the sample. The pattern costs and sample cost are shown below. Once an initial sample has been made, we will then provide you with a cost per unit for production. Our production is done in house my our highly skilled production team, we charge £25 an hour for production. Maximum of 10 units per style/colour. 

Our production studio is set up for both leather and fabric handbag.

Small simple clutch sampling - 8-16 hours for the pattern & sample @ £35 an hour Sample Total = £280-£560

Medium size bag sampling - 16-32 hours for the pattern & sample @ £35 an hour. Sample Total = £560 - £1120

Large size bag sampling - 32 - 40+  hours for the pattern & sample @£35 an hour. Sample Total = £1120 - £1400

The prices stated can vary depending on the complexity of the design. Please get in touch for further details.  info@rjleatherstudio.com

Our production studio is based in Lancing West Sussex. 

Garden Studio, 49 west way, lancing, BN15 8LX

The wonderful clients who we have worked with:

Harry Potter Theatre Production - Commission of 8 Gladstone bags.

Bag for Wicked theatre Production - 

Sample bags for a client who completed the Brand Launch Academy

Production Harris Tweed and leather bags for Borrisdale


Commission wallets for private client:

Baxley - www.baxleygoods.com

Barkened - www.barkened.com

Renwick & Sons - www.renwickandsons.co.uk/