Escama Bags
Escama Studio combines sustainable design with fair trade principles to create a new breed of alluring fashion accessories.
Based in San Francisco, Escama Studio works directly with two Brazilian craft cooperatives – Cia do Lacre and As Panteras do Lacre – to design and produce these sleek, modern pieces using traditional crochet techniques and recycled aluminum pull-tabs.
Industry experts warned us that we'd run out of aluminum pull-tabs and advised that we'd need to use machines to get consistent quality.
Luckily experts are sometimes wrong.
Four years and 25,000 bags later we've learned that craftswomen can do something that machines can't: make consistently beautiful bags that are at the same time very personal. We've also learned that the world's abundance of ‘junk’ offers a lot of creative potential.
Escama Studio is grateful for the technical and managerial assistance provided by the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE) in their efforts to develop groups of artisan production as small enterprises.
