MAKE IT SIMPLE, SOLID AND BEAUTIFUL
Woven canvas and leather: these two materials are the foundation of L/UNIFORM, a manufacturer founded on the desire to make things simple and beautiful, useful and solid. The collections offer the bag in its ultra-functional versions, from the schoolbag to the backpack, including the pencil case, the pouch, the travel bag, the satchel or the shopping bag. They come in different shades, the fruit of Jeanne Signoles' personal research. Thus, Prussian blue, for example, is preferred to navy blue.
Essential, light, practical, these timeless classics allow themselves a fantasy: the colors. Those of the canvas and the leather and, in addition, those of the braids and handles. Combined, they thus constitute a multitude of models. If a large number appear in the catalog, any new combination can be the subject of a special order.
L/UNIFORM manufactures its collections in its workshop in Portugal. From design to assembly to finishing and packaging, each step of the production chain is carried out by highly qualified craftsmen, trained within L/UNIFORM. A rigorous and perfectly coordinated production tool makes it possible to manage and control the production of series as well as special orders within realistic and controlled deadlines.
Each part is checked according to precise specifications including the quality criteria specific to each model.
Braids and borders are carefully cut, guaranteeing a perfect finish.
Whether in canvas or leather, each model requires an incompressible manufacturing time, a guarantee of its longevity.
CUSTOMIZE YOUR MODEL
By opting for woven linen and cotton canvas – and 100% cotton for the khaki canvas, the one still used today by the army – L/UNIFORM has chosen a light and resistant material, to which it gives back its letters of nobility. Thus, in order to be compatible with the manufacture of a bag or an accessory, the fabric is subject to a “core” dyeing then a special treatment, respectful of European environmental protection standards. By a coating process – double for the natural shade – all the canvases are made washable, water-repellent and stain-resistant, while preserving their suppleness. As for the leathers – a fulled calf of Catalan origin – they are dyed in the mass to avoid premature wear and guarantee the uniformity of the color, and treated “with a drop of water” to make them water-resistant.
The utilitarian sobriety of the models is shaken up by the combination of colors but also by the possibility of personalizing them via the printing, in screen printing, of a monogram. This pattern can be cleaned (with soap and water) and, if it has faded or damaged over time, replaced.
