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The Cavalier Tote
Cognac box calf, bridle-leather handles, brass turn-lock.
$3,400
No assembly line touches an Arçon bag. One artisan cuts the hide, stitches every seam by hand, and signs the lining before it ever leaves the bench.
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Founded as a harness workshop three doors from the cavalry remount yard on Rue Ste-Anne. We stitched girths and reins for the last mounted regiments garrisoned in the city; when the horses were retired, the stitch stayed — and moved from tack to travel.
Full-grain calfskin, one hide per bag, checked under raking light for the tanner's brand.
Brass patterns worn smooth over forty years, blade angled by hand — no laser in the room.
Two needles, one waxed-linen thread, pulled taut on every pass so a single break can never unravel the line.
Beeswax and a bone folder, roughly forty passes an edge, until the raw hide reads like glass.
Nine pieces this week. Once the hides run out, the next run waits its turn.
Cognac box calf, bridle-leather handles, brass turn-lock.
$3,400
Ember epsom grain, brass stirrup clasp.
$2,150
Espresso calf, six card slots, hand-folded corners.
$540
Saddle-tan strap leather, reversible buckle.
$610
4th floor, Rue Ste-Anne, above the old remount yard. Open by appointment, Tuesday–Saturday, 10:00–17:30. Watch a seam get stitched; the pattern room stays off-camera.
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