Gift ideas

14
March
2022

The leather wallets by Florence Leather Market

Investing in a quality wallet is as essential as a pair of boots, everyday handbag, or coat. The best wallets for women are as practical as they are fashionable. Depending on your preference, there’s a wallet to suit your taste and lifestyle. Do you consider yourself a minimalist? A sleek card case is calling your name. We love our understated version or our Intrecciato zippered wallet in bright kelly green. If you prefer a wallet that can fit a bit more than just your essential cards and ID, a compact, bi-fold, or tri-fold leather wallet is a viable option.

For an item that will get near-daily mileage, finding the perfect wallet is worth the time, and they also make a lovely holiday gift for moms, dads, and friends. Below, shop Florence Leather Market’s edit of the best wallets for women for every preference and style.

Let’s start

Minimalist way

For the minimalist at heart, opt for a slim card case that will store all of your credit cards, ID, and more with ease. Shop ones in classic black to more vibrant pops of colour from Florence Leather Market. The perfect choice for when you wish to carry cards and cash in a smaller, slimmer silhouette. The Lisa Cash, card and ID wallet combines form and function offering 6 quick access card slots, a stackable larger card slot, and it’s available in 6 different colours.

Compact Bi-Fold

If you are looking for a wallet that is compact in size but can fit a bit more than a standard card case, a bi-fold or trifold wallet is a happy medium. Considering Flora, genuine calfskin is a really good choice. Every detail, including the zip pocket for coins, has been designed to give birth to a functional but extremely glamorous wallet. A small wallet with the same capacity as a large one. Flora is a very large women’s wallet despite its small size.

Safety

For extra security in keeping your essentials fastened, a zippered wallet is ideal. Fortunately, there are a myriad of options in different colours, shapes, and sizes. Consider Zippy coin purse burgundy wallet. Internally the accessory consists of multiple pockets for credit cards and a compartment for banknotes, as well as a zip pocket for coins with puller. Peak and compact is the perfect model for the new spring summer 2022.

Crossbody wallet

If you’re constantly on the go, a crossbody coin purse might be a suitable option. Great for anyone who commutes by bike or prefers to forgo handbags altogether, this is a lightweight and easy way to store your essentials. From commuting to travelling to everyday outings, the best crossbody bags are available in 6 different colours of styles, shades, and classic silhouettes. Discover our Aurora-the Small purse with silver chain strap, it is 100% manufactured in Italy.

We have specially developed an elegant collection of women’s wallets available in different colours, sizes and styles. Come and choose your favourite one.

2
March
2022

The best bag-gift in leather for the international women’s day

The best bag-gift for the international women’s day

Happy Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is a global celebration which recognises the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the world, while calling to advance the movement for gender equality.

A gift is an excellent way to express appreciation and acknowledgment for a woman’s contribution to our life. But selecting the right gift is not always easier than it’s said. It may be that the woman you like already has everything she needs. Still, you must come out with a unique, attractive and useful gift. Fortunately, on Florence leather Market’s website you can find new gift idea; From the colour red of Valentine’s Day to the yellow of Women’s Day. Yellow, besides, will be a hot trend for Spring/Summer 2022.

The best bag-gift for the international women’s day

If you want to be original, on 8 March you may give as a gift to your friends/sisters/mums/grannies a fashionable item on a day dedicated to women. Browse the gallery, you will surely find a nice gift you like, besides the classic chocolates or mimosa bunches. We have selected for you a number of trendy pieces, it-bags, clutch, wallet and belts perfect for this occasion.

Florence leather market comes up with this handbag combo that you can gift to your sister or wife this Women’s Day. Available with one main compartment, these handbags come with top zip closure. In addition to this, the offered product comes in the 23 x 9 x 13 cm dimension and weighs around 400 grams. All these handbags are designed using real leather material and 100% Made with Love by skilled and experienced artisans.

The best shoulder bags-gift for the international women’s day

A gift with guaranteed success

Our Belinda bag comes with a soft and effective structure for every use. Of a soft grain leather refined and worked by our best craftsmen, and studied in the smallest spaces to ensure an all-round use. In addition to zippers and interior spaces, our Belinda offers an interior mini clutch with additional zipper to keep essential accessories close at hand and distinct as a collocation. Belinda is the go-to solution for any occasion, perfect for a leisurely stroll to hold everything you need. A gift with guaranteed success, especially if accompanied by a beautiful bouquet of mimosas.

The favourite

Irma wants you to love what you buy and wear it often, which is precisely how you’ll feel about its thoughtfully designed leather bags. The monogram Tote is a new-season favourite, available in two sizes and in two classic brown shades and yellow leather. This luxury bag is made from buttery-soft Italian leather, with room to fit a trio of add-ons, like a laptop sleeve, flap bag, and adjustable shoulder strap.

With one foot in the past and another in the present, designs practical bags in earthy colour palettes that read nostalgic and on trend at the same time. This shoulder bag in real leather is easily convertible into a backpack particle.

It’s hard to choose a favourite product from the brand’s beautiful collections, but it’s sure that inside our ecommerce store you will find the perfect article for the international women’s day.

30
January
2022

Leather bags to update your workwear

The easiest way to update your workwear? Investing in a classic tote bag to hold all of your everyday essentials. Honing in on handbags, there’s no more important investment than the workbag. Considering the vast amount of time in our career that we spend with our carry-all’s slung over the shoulder – not to mention the copious amount of things we carry with us – the style demands attention to detail both in function and fashion.

4 Easy Ways to Update Your Workwear

Going beyond the normal everyday essentials of keys, phone, and wallet, we lug around hand creams, lip balms, and notebooks. Lunch, laptop, and headphones. The demands are many, and our options of handbags numerous. That’s why Florence leather market has gathered our favourite office appropriate carry-alls that can elevate our everyday. Whether they are refined totes, maxi shoppers or handbags these iconic it bags have all the qualities to become your heart bag. And if you really want to be the trendiest, this season the secret is to also focus on the color, whether it is bright or pastel.

Let’s start!

An investment

If you prefer a one-and-done type of work bag, consider investing in a timeless style you’ll use for years to come. The new “Elsa” tote its precious leather goods savoir-faire, becoming a must-have accessory for a sophisticated daywear look. Crafted in Natural calf-skin and embossed in straw design with light gold-plated brass hardware. This model features two foldable handles and a detachable and adjustable leather strap, for a versatile wearability as a crossbody or a shoulder bag. Large size with one compartment and a magnetic closure.

Where is that bag from?

For anyone who prefers a bag that is punchier than the typical tote, these designs by Florence leather market will surely get you stopped on the street and asked, “Where is that bag from?” Milena tote bag in genuine calfskin with double handles to ensure protection and durability over time. Elegant and casual, this shoulder bag typically represents Tuscan craftsmanship and combines compactness and resistance with great practicality. It’s perfect for a woman who doesn’t want to be bored.

Always minimalistic

Calling all minimalists: These leather totes do not disappoint. Clean and simple, these are the best work bags for women that get the job done. Add your laptop, agenda, book, and then some—it will carry it all. Eloisa is a bag in fine saffiano leather and handcrafted in Florentine laboratories. The model consists of two adjustable and thin handles with a small decorative golden metal targ. This is the bag you can wear season after season for years to come, and even pass down to future generations.

Special edition

A structured and vertically-shaped tote is perfect for carrying laptops and notebooks. The tote bag Isla, made of super soft calfskin, is part of the special edition. The versatile accessory, this model is both a roomy carryall and a chic city bag. Can be worn in different ways thanks to the handles and adjustable shoulder strap. Isla -it makes the perfect work bag for boss ladies and those seeking something more ladylike, too.

It’s always important to look good at work, or even just at more formal events. However, it can be difficult to make workwear original and interesting, which is why we have created a gallery to showcase 14 of the very best pieces from winter 2022. Discover more o on www.florencelathermarket.com

14
January
2022

4 women’s bags to look for in the sales

The holidays are said to be the most wonderful time of the year; and without a doubt, they’re definitely the best time to shop sales. From the perfect gifts for your loved ones to new clutches for all of your holiday parties, you can find many things on discount through the New Year. You just need to choose the right accessory for you. To help make things easier, our editors have shared their curated picks from the best Florence Leather market sales right now. Here, Florence Leather Market shares what they’re seeing from the best online sales right now, from leather bags to matching holiday clutch for the whole family.

Florence Leather Market’s sales

The most anticipated post-Christmas shopping day is here! The Epiphany Day sales have landed – and with them an opportune moment to invest in a wardrobe binder you’ll be wearing for years to come. So sit back, relax, and shop for the best online sales right now. To save you from incessant scrolling, browse Florence leather Market ’s picks of the very best fashion deals – from high street to high-end – below.

Noemi, a unique chance.

you’ve had your eye on the Florence leather Market genuine calfskin leather bag for let’s just say a while! This versatile pleated puffin bag includes a convertible strap to allow it to be worn as a handbag, shoulder bag, or cross-body. Noemi is the ideal bag for anyone on the go and from today it’s at half-price. Hurry up!!

Florence the bag of Firenze

We know that you’ve had my eye on this Italian cross body bag for years, and they’re 20% off all week! It might be time to splurge; we love the idea of throwing them on with all of my plain sweaters this fall winter. Florence the bag of Firenze – is created using genuine calfskin, tanned and worked in Florentine laboratories. Don’t miss this opportunity !

The investment for the future

Also we know that you are doing your best to resist buying gifts for yourself, but as we all know, some things simply can’t be left for chance! Early sales have kicked off, and you’ve already had your eye on a few things this year. and we know you can’t resist the allure of the Emily leather bag by Florence Leather Market. So hurry up and come and get it.

That’s a bargain

If you’re looking for cheap brown purses, go no further than this! Our items are the perfect combination of convenience and high quality: made in the heart of the Florentine district are now on sale only for you. You can purchase Eloisa tote bag for 79.30 euros (can you believe it?!) discover more on our website. and Feel free to shop!

The Florence Leather Market sale includes up to 50 percent off selected items for a limited time only. So,do not waste time, run on our site and discover the endless offers dedicated to you.

30
December
2021

The history of the leather dye

Ancient dyes: how were the fabrics coloured in the past?

Dyeing is an ancient art, born in India around the 30th century BC, when spices began to be used, after careful and careful processing, to dye fabrics. From those years to today, countless advances have been made: we have gone from natural colours applicable only to natural fabrics, such as linen, cotton and silk, to chemical dyes that can be used, in the form of a liquid bath – the dyes are dissolved in the water in which the tissues are immersed.

But how has the practice of dyeing changed over time? And what was used to colour the fabrics? In this article we retrace the history of ancient dyes, looking at natural products that have been, over the years, the protagonists of one of the most fascinating processes.

The history of ancient dyes

To reconstruct in detail the history of ancient dyes is an almost impossible operation that would require the chemical analysis of the ragged shreds of tissue that have come down to us: what we know is that, at least initially, among the Greeks, The Romans and the Phoenicians, were used only the primary colors in their clearest shade because it was not yet known the way to give life to the intermediate or more tenuous colors.

Among the first colors that we can clearly identify is the purple of Tyre, one of the pigments that has imprinted its footprint on the history of humanity: mainly employed by the Phoenicians, the great dyers of the fifteenth century BC. It was a bright and expensive shade of red, so much so that it became the symbol of aristocrats and Roman emperors.
To obtain the purple of Tyre a long and detailed procedure was necessary: the spiny moray eel was put to macerate in lead tubs filled with abundant salted water, so as to obtain a liquid tending to yellow which, After being exposed to the sun it assumed the traditional and vivid purple color.
The cost of Tyre’s purple was too high, so much so that, over the years, it fell into disuse, replaced by cheap imitations, such as the mauve color produced at Perkin thanks to a synthetic process.

The other color of extreme value was the Oltremare di Tiro, born from a procedure similar to that required for the production of the purple of Tiro: there was need, however, of two different molluscs, the first that gave the red color and the second that gave the fabric a unique bluish shade.

Insects, molluscs, plants and flowers were, in a similar way to the above, the protagonists of the history of the tincture of the Greeks and the Romans. It seems, among other things, that they possessed a not too limited range of colors, including yellow, blue, blue and red in addition to the traditional black and white.
For the production of the red color the Romans used a bath of color extracted from an insect, the cochineal.
All in all, however, the dyeing techniques and pigments used remained a real secret for centuries. It is enough to think that the Chinese imperial court demanded that no one should know the secrets of this refined and precious art.

The art of dyeing in Italy

After the Crusades, the art of dyeing fabrics finally arrived in Italy: in Florence in 1400 there were over 200 dyeing workshops. The first great commercial traffics delivered, then, in Italy rudimentary chemical substances, useful to obtain new colors and more and more sought, and machinery gradually more and more to the vanguard.
The synthetic colors appeared, from the outset, as cheaper, cheaper and resistant, which is why they did not take too long before replacing natural pigments. At the time, by the way, the effects of artificial colours on the environment were completely ignored, and their spread completely overwhelmed Europe first and then the whole world.

Today the art of ancient natural dyes is increasingly recovered by small local companies in which the skilled artisans, in compliance with an all-Italian tradition, give new life, after centuries, to those natural processes of pigment extraction from flowers and plants.
Recovering the ancient techniques means bringing back to the market, now dominated by clothes and colors standardized and devoid of soul, give a unique character and emotion to unique and inimitable clothes and accessories that, thanks to a coloring craft, acquire a value without price.
The history of Made in Italy leather goods, based in Florence, is combined with the long tradition of dyeing, between secrets and innovation, giving life to clothes and accessories that no one will resist.

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