Victoria Baker is a designer maker in leather accessories. She originally trained as a Theatre Costumier but after many years being involved in a wide range of theatre/film and dance productions, took a break and did some building work ! This gave her time to consider her next creative move.
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, using some textiles too. In 2010 Victoria changed the emphasis in her work from textiles which led her on to her present work in leather. Victoria develops all her leatherwork in her studio. Recently Victoria has been learning to weave and intends to be using her own fabric.

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.