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Vienna · Neubau · The atelier

Our Atelier & Shop

We make your bags here in front of your eyes. Our collection in the Atelier is different from the ones in our onlineshop. More colours, more designs and one of a kind bags that are only available in our atelier & shop.

A maker marking and cutting brown leather at the atelier table
Cutting leather

The space

A shop in front, a sewing room behind.

Our doors in the atelier in the 7th district are open. Transparent and fair production of handmade bags.

There is no factory floor and no separate showroom. The person who cuts a hide is often the same person who rings up the sale — and the bags on the shelf were made a few steps from where they are sold.

The Bags With Legs shop with bags hanging on chains
The front shop
A customer with a colourful Bags With Legs bag in the Vienna shop
Choosing a bag
A maker showing a printed Bags With Legs bag in the shop
Over the counter
Social Brand Sustainable Design Leftover Leather Local Production Ethical & Fair
Rolls of deadstock leather in the atelier
Deadstock leather in the workroom

The leather

Deadstock, sorted by hand.

Our leather is leftover stock the industry set aside. We buy these rests, sort them by hand, and let each hide decide what it becomes. Fabrics and buckles are European-made.

Because the material itself is limited, almost every bag is a small series or a one-of-a-kind piece.

Leather
European deadstock, sorted by hand
Fabrics and buckles
Made in Europe
Every piece
A small series, or one of a kind
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How a bag is made

From a leftover hide to a bag with legs.

Every bag passes through the same four steps — all of them in this one room.

  1. A maker holding a sequinned deadstock rest in the atelier

    Choose the leather

    Deadstock hides are bought in and sorted by hand. Each one is different — its size, grain and colour decide what it can become.

  2. Cut pieces laid out on the cutting table

    Cut the pattern

    The pieces are marked and cut from the hide, matched with European fabrics for the lining and pockets.

  3. A maker sewing at an industrial machine

    Sew by hand

    Seams, lining and hardware come together at the machine — about six hours of handwork for a small bag, eight for a large one.

  4. A maker at her machine holding a finished black bag

    Hand it over

    The finished bag is handed across the counter, often by the woman who made it.

Three Bags With Legs makers gathered around an old Singer sewing machine against a gold backdrop
The team at the Singer

The workroom

An ordinary day at the machines.

No staging and no factory — just the sewing room as it runs: threading one of the 1950s machines, sewing the next seam.

In Vienna

Hermanngasse19

1070 Wien · Neubau Open in maps

The work

By hand, start to finish.

6 h
Handwork in a small bag
8 h
Handwork in a large bag
3
Months of training
1950s
Yes, our machines are from the fifties — durable and strong.

The sewing room is also the school: women with refugee and migrant backgrounds learn the craft here over about three months — cutting, sewing, design and the shop itself. One of them, Asilla, now makes the bags alongside Annamaria.

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Four makers with their hands together in front of the Bags With Legs shop window
The team, at the shop window

Visit

The door is open.

Atelier and shop
Hermanngasse 19, 1070 Wien · Neubau, Austria
Opening hours

Current opening times are kept up to date on Google Maps.

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Repairs

We repair our bags ourselves.

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