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Jodhpur Atelier · India
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Est. Heritage · Rajasthan
Jodhpur Atelier · India
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Inside the House
A walk through the same four stages every House of Bunkar object passes through — no shortcuts, no exceptions.
The atelier is not large. It does not need to be. What it lacks in scale it makes up for in concentration — every surface given over to a single task, every artisan given the time that task actually requires, rather than the time a schedule would prefer it took.
Each hide is examined by hand under natural light. Grain, temper, and the leather's own history of growth determine where it can be cut — and where it cannot.
Patterns are laid by hand, never by laser. The cutter reads the hide the way a tailor reads cloth — working with its grain, never against it.
Two needles, one waxed thread, passed through the same hole from opposite sides. A method unchanged in over a century, chosen because nothing stronger has been found.
Edges are bevelled, dyed, and burnished by hand until they hold a soft shine without lacquer. A final inspection closes the process — nothing leaves unseen by a second pair of eyes.
We are often asked for an exact number of hours a single piece requires. The honest answer is that it depends on the hide, the design, and the artisan — but forty hours is a fair average, and many pieces take longer. We have never tried to shorten that number. A faster atelier is not the goal here.
Slowness, in our atelier, is not a limitation. It is the method.