Leaf Leather Handbags

The Orchid Gallery is proud to carry the Leaf Leather line of fine handbags and other leather goods by C.L. Whiting.

Each bag is hand tooled with a unique leaf pattern, so that no two are identical.

The Leaf Leather story began in upstate New York over 20 years ago where C.L. Whiting developed a love for nature, and a passion for detail.

While working part-time at a small leather shop and studying art in college, the opportunity arose for C.L. to become an apprentice under an Italian engraver who was retiring and desired to pass along his technique for making fine detailed tools to someone who would appreciate it.

Whiting developed the ability to produce tools in the shape of leaves with uncanny microscopic detail.

Over the years she has designed more than 5,000 tools in different leaf patterns using nature as the model.

Like an artist painting a picture, an entire hide is tooled creating an original, one-of-a-kind work of art.

Whiting has personally trained several skilled craftspeople to help with the cutting, sewing, and finishing touches. This enables her to create more of the beautiful hand tooled hides which are then made into finely detailed, meticulously finished leather goods.

The Leaf Leather collection consists of original one-of-a-kind pieces of functional art. And they last and last and last...