Join us in our workshop via a Zoom® video call. The purpose of the video call is to create together your one-of-a-kind Glaser bags. Talk with Kari and Myron about the styles, dimensions, colors, features, modular organization, and handle and strap lengths you need to be comfortable with your bags. When you place an order, we'll cut and make your bags of high-touch, sustainable materials, that you select. We customize and color them to your specifications.
Standard leather colors include hand-burnished, tannery-colored, espresso or black leather, or hand-burnished natural leather that patinates toward caramel brown as it ages.
By special order, we mix to-order solvent free dyes and pigments to custom color our hand-grained, hand-colored leather collection, and our new, colorfast, water and stain resistant linen and leather collection.
We make a collection of optional, modular organizers to custom configure organization and the compartmentalization of your bags to assure their ongoing versatility and usefulness.
Following your video call, we hope you will have time to join us to explore our workshop to learn more about how we make our products, customize and color them for you.
Meanwhile, if you have questions about our work and process, please call Kari and Myron at 415-552-3188 or email us at w@glaserdesigns.com.
Our San Francisco workshop, located at 1469 Pacific Avenue between Larkin and Hyde, is open to visitors 9 am to 7 pm Pacific Time, Monday through Friday, and 12 to 7 pm Saturday.
Hand-Colored, Hand-Grained Leather.
Hand-graining leather is a traditional process in which we ‘grain’ vegetable tanned leather hides by folding them multiple directions, multiple times. During our video call, we’ll show you examples of leather we have hand-colored so you can see how they differ from tannery colored hides, and explain why hand-grained effects differ within each hide and from one hide to another. We custom mix transparent, water based dyes to colors you specify. Curing times require a multi-day effort to make our hand-grained, hand-colored leather for you. Our colorfast, pigment-free hues enhance the hide’s natural characteristics further assuring the one-of-a-kind look of your bag.
Hand-Painted, Belgian Linen and Leather.
We mix solvent-free, colorfast pigments to hand paint your linen and leather bag the colors that you specify during our video call. We have developed techniques to stiffen the linen and make it water repellent and stain resistant. We cut a single layer of linen and make it impermeable enough to allow us to paint the inside the of the panel a color that you specify. Then we paint the outside of the panel a different color you may specify. We make of the single-ply linen panel your one-of-a-kind, lightweight, freestanding, made to-measure, custom colored linen and leather bag.
Hand-Burnished Leathers.
Prior to cutting vegetable tanned leathers from our tannery, we hand-finish each hide with our proprietary mix of solvent-free waxes and oils of the same quality as those used by cosmetic manufacturers. When the finish cures, we hand-burnish each hide to enrich the color of its full grain and add patina to the surface of the leather.
Travelers' Linen Face Mask
We make Travelers’ Face Masks to-measure for you. Join us via a Zoom® video call, have a tape measure at-hand, and we’ll help you take the measurements required to custom make your mask.
Each mask is shipped with two complementary, disposable, replaceable, melt-blown, charged, electret filters tested by Nelson Labs to have 98% bacterial filter efficiency. We make your mask of a combination of linen and organic hemp fabrics. Linen and hemp are sustainable, bacterial resistant, breathable, and washable materials. The masks, unusually durable, soften significantly after their first washing. Our Face Masks are designed and made for all-day, everyday protection and comfort, but they are not medical devices, and not intended for medical purposes.
Custom made to-measure.
We customize the dimensions of interchangeable kits and organizers to coordinate with the made to-measure dimensions of your Glaser Bags.
Join Kari and Myron Glaser via video chat to discuss customizing our designs and materials for you.
From Our Customers
Newsletter
Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter and receive notifications of new products and more.
Hand-coloring your bags with colors we mix to order.
By special order, we’ll hand-color your hand-grained, all-leather bags, and your leather and linen bags. If you would like to learn more about how we make our bags and hand-color materials, please ask for a tour of our workshop following your Zoom® video chat with us.