Last updated 6 August 2026
A FELUS bag is handwoven from raffia in an atelier in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The leather is cut, shaped and stitched there too. No machine weaves it. That is not a marketing line — it is simply how it is made.
It begins with the fibre
Every bag starts as raw raffia, harvested from the palm and dried in the sun. The ribbons are sorted by hand and the uneven ones set aside. Some are left close to their natural colour, some are dyed — through tea, brown and black. Before a single row is woven, the material has already passed through several pairs of hands.
Woven row by row
The weaving is slow by design. A weaver sets the tension of every ribbon, building the bag's structure row by row. There is no press, no mould, no shortcut — which is why no two bags are ever identical, and why each one holds its shape the way it does.
The atelier employs more than fifty people, women of every age working alongside each other. The technique is not taught from a manual. It is learned by sitting next to someone who already knows it.
The leather, on the island
The leather is cut, shaped and stitched in Madagascar, not shipped elsewhere to be assembled. Every seam and every edge is completed before the bag leaves.
Then it travels
From Madagascar the finished bag comes to a studio in the heart of Athens, where it is unpacked, looked over, and folded into a dust bag made by hand in Greece before it is sent on.
See the result in the FELUS collection.