Our process is slow + deeply considered. We value the connection we have with our team, our makers, our community, collaborators + charity partners.
Our A Maker's View videos provide some insight into our design process + how closely linked it has always been to our relationships with our manufacturing partners. We continue to sketch in detail, and build our ranges with love for our craft + respect for the making process. Materials, hardware, topstitch, edgepaint, lining, pockets + all the construction in between, is discussed + worked through. In order to get the styles right, we do at least two rounds of sampling, plus a full coloured range of samples for photography + press, and this process can take up to 6 months.
We produce most of our bags with a brilliant partner + team at Xiongxin Handbags in Dongguan. We also do some work with Viari, in Chennai, India - both are known to us from our previous working relationships, and all our factory partners have looked after us with dedication + care.
The production period goes for approximately 3 months, depending on material availability + it is a constant communication with the factory + the Sans Beast team to ensure all details remain on track. Collaborative relationships + mutual respect are crucial and we're grateful for both with our vendors.
Ensuring we don't create an entirely new collection + throw away the current range is key to our slow design ethos. We invest a lot of time into designing + developing our styles - and our partner factories also invest in cutting moulds + sampling. It's respectful of this investment to keep the styles going in our range for as long as possible. This is where our Signature range comes in. We keep over half of our range as an evergreen foundational offering, season in, season out - and it doesn't go on sale.
When you place an order, first, we say one of the following things: yay, thank you, brilliant, cheers, oooh that's a good choice...etc. Then, we get to preparing your order. John + Tayla are our warehouse superstars + they're sticklers for detail.
John often hand writes a card for you (printed by Castlemaine small business, Print Together, on post-consumer recycled paper with eco-friendly inks), gets all the address labels sorted, checks that your purchase is perfect, rejects items that don't adhere to his high standards, then packs your treasure in its recycled cotton, undyed Sans Beast dust bag, carefully wraps it in the NoIssue branded paper (soy printed on paper from FSC sources), seals it with a sticker, and pops it in a recycled + recyclable cardboard box + seals the package with water activated paper tape.
Yes, it's a process, and we are asked not to get in his way. Short of sealing it with a kiss, these parcels are sent with love + dedication. Amazon we are not, beautifully niche is our mantra.
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Sans Beast acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land, on which we live + work - the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to all First Nations people – their history, ancestral stories + truth telling. We are advocates of PayTheRent + we are doing so, on a monthly basis.
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