Handbag Leather – Brown

Our Handbag Leather - Brown made from a 100% South African Cow Leather. The leather we use, gets buffed, coated in oil and burned through an ironing press to achieve the desired effect. Once in use, the oil disperses into the hide, softening the leather from inside out. This creates a 2 tone distress appearance with a soft velvet touch. 

We also use South African Shweshwe fabric to line the interior of our Handbags for strength and style. This Handbag Leather - Brown comes with a durable metal zip at the top for the purpose of securing all your personal belongings inside. As well as another zip pocket inside for smaller items. All NAVA Apparel bags are handmade by South African craftswomen.

When you buy one of our Bags you also support our women's workshop in Cape Town. All women work for themselves and get paid per item. We operate as a fair-trade business and create more jobs in South Africa. Giving women an opportunity to empower themselves by operating their own little business within our business. Respecting each other and learning from one another. This is the future I would like to live in one day.

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Shweshwe a printed cotton fabric widely used for traditional South African clothing. Manufactured in a variety of colours and printing designs characterised by intricate geometric patterns. Traditionally used to make skirts and dresses, aprons and wraparound clothing. Shweshwe clothing traditionally worn by newly married Xhosa and Sotho women, known as makoti. Xhosa women also incorporated the fabric into their traditional ochre-coloured blanket clothing. Aside from traditional wear, shweshwe used in contemporary South African fashion design for women and men from all ethnic groups, as well as for making accessories and upholstery.

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