Victoria Baker is a designer maker in leather accessories. She originally trained at Wimbledon School of Art in Theatre Costume. Victoria develops all her leatherwork in her studio. She has been able to draw on her considerable breadth of experience of 15 years as a freelance costumier to aid her development as a designer and maker of a range of leather accessories. In 2010 she changed the emphasis in her work from textiles which led her on to her present work in leather.
The general process: The leather once selected, Victoria cuts by hand, to her patterns, and chooses carefully, appropriate, colourful suede linings, added to contrast with or compliment the leather. Where appropriate, Victoria skives, glues, and then hand stitches with a saddlery stitch in the final process of completing the bag, all edges are bevelled, burnished, polished, and finally, the chosen metalware is added. Victoria considers and designs each bag on an individual basis.