A small house
in Scandicci
Italian leather bags, cut and stitched by hand. Real craft. Without the logo tax.
LIETA started as a quiet rebellion against the markup. The same artisan in Scandicci who stitches for the famous Houses also stitches for us — same hands, same leather, same care. We just decided not to charge you twelve times the cost to put the bag in your hands. Lieta means glad in Italian. That is the point.
Scandicci, Florence — twenty minutes from the Duomo by tram. Eleven artisans, one floor.
A bag, not a status piece
Most luxury houses mark up their leather goods 8–12 times the production cost. Half of what you pay covers boutiques on Place Vendôme and Avenue Montaigne. We don't have boutiques there.
What you pay for at LIETA is the bag — the leather, the maker, the time. Not a logo with a story written around it.
Use yours. Carry it. Let it get a little soft at the corners. The patina is the design.
Cut by hand, stitched by hand
The leather is full-grain Italian calf from Walpier in Castelfranco di Sotto — vegetable-tanned by a process unchanged since the 1700s. The hides are dyed all the way through, finished by hand on the bench.
Side seams are machine-stitched on a Pfaff industrial at eight stitches per inch. Handle attachments are hand-saddle-stitched with two needles, one waxed linen thread — the only stitch that can't unravel from a single broken loop.
Edges are painted in four coats, the wordmark hot-stamped, the lining stitched in. Each piece is hand-polished with a wax cloth before it ever sees a box. A serial card travels with the bag.
The Lungo
An elongated east-west shoulder bag. Italian calf, four colourways. €255.
DiscoverMade to outlast you
Our leather is a by-product of the Italian food industry — nothing is killed for it. The tannery is a Leather Working Group Gold member, running vegetable-tannage on plant matter rather than chrome. Packaging is recyclable rigid board, cotton dust bag, no plastic.
A bag should outlast you. Ours are built to. Free repairs in the first two years, repairs at cost after that — write to care@lietamilano.com.