The shoulder PYKARA is a vegetable tanned saddle leather for leather goods. It will satisfy hot stamping, hammering, sewing and precise cutting. A very light natural leather, it offers a pleasant sensory experience, reflecting the nobility of leather.
For your embossing or moulding work, only the natural Pykara leather will suit you. The tinted Pykara leather (black, chocolate, havana & cognac), because of its pigmented finish, will be suitable for your "classic" leather goods (without embossing or moulding).
Lucile Pruvel
Presentation of Lucile Pruvel
Former Product and Project Manager, and curious and independent young woman, Mrs. Lucile Pruvel decided to step up and reconnect with her childhood dream: leather shaping. It is in Anctoville sur Boscq, in France, that she set up her workshop : Lucile Pruvel, designer of leather goods. Her work revolves around 3 values: the quality of raw materials, respect for the environment, and trust and kindness.
Mrs. Lucile Pruvel thus offers refined everyday objects, unique pieces and limited series, all made with vegetable tanned leather, with attention to detail, for optimal quality, from design to finishes, including all stages of production, patronage, cutouts, dyeing, sculpture, etc.
Testimony of Lucile Pruvel
« I make vegetable leather hats and objects from Radermecker Tannery. I often choose the Niagara in havana for its warm shade and nourishment to the heart. When I wish to dye and emboss the object, it is the Pykara which is offered to me. "Kristin" is a hybrid hat, mixing pork pie and capeline, at the same time chic, unique, for special occasions and wearable by everyone. It participates in the Ateliers d'Art de France 2022 competition and will be present at the Fête des Métiers d'Art in Villedieu-les-Poëles (50). Created in full-grain Pykara leather for its entire structure, this hat also has an antistatic, silky and soft Venezia lining, a 100% cotton interior headband and Oeko-tex certified ecru stretch canvas. The pattern of the latter echoes that of the textured crown and its satin finish brings luminosity to the face it crowns. »
"The choice of honeysuckle and roses is a tribute to the gardens that my father created and which populated my childhood. They represent the simplicity of a common flower and the elegance of fragrant climbers. This hat has gone through multiple stages of creation, from pattern making to finishing, including hammering, embossing, dyeing, S-lacing, hand sewing in saddle stitch, edge work and brim shaping from capeline to bone glue. Finally, some flowers were made in cold porcelain, then dyed, embossed and varnished. Affixed to the S lacing of the crown, they complete the Kristin hat and give relief to the whole". Mrs Lucile Pruvel - Lucile Pruvel
Video of the making of the "Kristin" hat by Lucile Pruvel
The "Kristin" hat from the making to the finished hat
