Y Ddraig Goch
The Welsh dragon, stamped into wallet faces and bag pockets — a nod to the family line the workshop takes its name from. confirm story
Cut, tooled & dyed by hand
Leather that earns its patina.
Every piece begins as a single hide and ends on a workbench — hand-cut, stamped border by border, dyed in small batches, and set with solid brass. No two come out the same, and that is rather the point.
green satchel · stone wall
100%Full-grain hide
SolidBrass hardware
HandDyed & burnished
1 of 1No two alike
What's on the bench
Four collections, one pair of hands
From a full crossbody satchel down to a hair pin — the same tooling vocabulary runs through all of it: knotwork borders, dragon scale, and a gold-leaf line worked into the impression. Every piece is made to order in the colour and motif you choose.
Satchels & Bags
Crossbody bags with a shaped flap, buckle closure and detachable strap.
Made to order
Wallets & Card Cases
Slim money-clip wallets stamped with dragon, star and scale motifs.
Pricing on enquiry
Belts & Straps
Tooled overlay belts sized to you, with matching bag straps.
Made to measure
Hair Pins & Small Goods
Butterflies, blossoms and seven-pointed stars, hand-painted and sealed.
Pricing on enquiry
matched set · wood table
The long way round
Six steps, none of them quick
The hide is cut and the edges bevelled. The pattern is cased with water and struck stamp by stamp — a border is hundreds of individual impressions, and a slip does not come out.
Dye goes on in thin coats and builds to that mottled, backlit depth; the gold is worked into the tooled line by hand. Edges are burnished, hardware is set in solid brass, and the whole thing is sealed and left to cure.
It is a slow way to make a bag. It is also why one of these outlasts a decade of the alternative.
Recurring marks
The motifs, and where they come from
The Seven-Pointed Star
Drawn in a single unbroken line — the reason it turns up on the smallest pieces, where there is only room for one gesture.
Dragon Scale
A repeating scale press that fills a panel without ever quite repeating, because each strike lands by hand and by eye.
How to order
Everything is made to order
There is no cart and no stock list. You tell us the piece, the colour and the motif you want, and we quote it before anything goes on the bench.
Tell us what you want
Piece, colour, motif, and any measurements you already have. A reference photo helps enormously.
We quote it
A sketch, a price and an honest timeline. Hand work does not compress, so we would rather quote long.
It goes on the bench
Progress photos at tooling and at dye — the two stages actually worth seeing — then it ships.
Still deciding?
You don't need a finished idea to ask
Half of what we make started as someone describing a rough notion and asking what it would cost. Send a photo, a colour, or just a question — it reaches the person who makes the work.