ex-insurance employee creates bags with upholstery fabric

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It is in Pont-Mahé, near Assérac on the Guérande peninsula and on the Morbihan border, that Françoise Gautier, a former insurance company employee, converted to seamstress creation.

It was a friend who asked me to make a few bags for her. She was satisfied, it became my passion. Now I make bags, it's a total coincidence. By Framboise is a purely creative name that my 3 sons came up with.

Leather and upholstery

Coming from his imagination and creativity, these bags By Raspberry are made from furnishing fabrics, not intended for leather goods. Other characteristics, they all have at least one leather strap or handles, to carry them or put them over the shoulder, sometimes also a leather badge for decoration. The leather, from France or Italy, is chosen by Françoise who cuts whole cattle hides. The clasps, rivets, buckles and loops, all metal, are made of brass. Each bag, made with his overlocker and his professional sewing machine, has a waterproof interlining.

“Not bling-bling bags”

The result is “original bags, in a price bracket between €35 and €60, accessible to most”, sold at summer markets, Christmas markets, on the internet or during the open days of his workshop.

If you like a model, it can be made, on request, with other fabrics and other colors.

I only make bags, handbags, totes, shoulder straps, fanny packs. These are not bling-bling or flashy bags. I'm flirtatious, my style is casual chic, just like me.

2,700 bags manufactured

Classic, or more original and colorful, large, suitable for computers and binders for students, each bag is utilitarian.

Françoise Gautier who also makes fabric aprons, with leather neck straps, for restaurateurs, carpenters or other professionals, but also for the general public.

“I started from nothing and have already made 2,700 bags. I do about one a day. It takes 3 hours of work per bag,” declares Françoise Gautier to the Echo de la presqu’île.

She also organizes sewing workshops, where everyone comes with their machine, their fabric and their clothing or textile piece project.

Useful: Next sewing workshop, led by Françoise Gautier, on November 18, 2024, in Brittany, in Pont-Mahé in Assérac from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., upon prior registration, 06 81 10 04 98. Door open on Saturday 23 November 2024, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., 37, route de Limerzel in Assérac and presence at the Christmas market of Products in the Guérande Peninsula, November 30, 2024, rue du Vieux-marché, in Guérande intra-muros

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