Original handmade handbags

With so many handmade handbags for sale, why buy a Lucinda?

August 11, 2004 -- Lucinda's Designs started in Malta - Europe about 4 years ago. The principal designer has now moved to Arizona and opened shop here!

Lucinda designs and makes one of a kind handbags, purses and totes using the finest fabrics and trimmings - many imported from Europe and Canada. Most sales are made off her website but opening an exclusive shop is in the pipeline! Currently you can find her designs at The Spa at Rancho Manana in Cave Creek, Arizona, Lillies of the Valley and Chez Antiques in Scottsdale, Arizona.

A Lucinda is always one of a kind - GUARANTEED! Each bag is painstakingly handcrafted to produce an original design. We don't use patterns..the fabric guides us. This assures you that your Lucinda is yours and yours alone. With great prices and styles for all, these handbags, purses and totes are surely worth a look!

The New Collection includes bags made using the age old tradition of slashing.

Slash-fabric--the generic term for a centuries-old technique, known also by the currently popular (and trademarked) name Faux Chenille--is enjoying a real renaissance today. And that's a very apt metaphor! In fact, the technique of slashing through fabric layers to reveal the color below can be traced back to the Renaissance. According to one story, the fashion originated with a ragged Swiss Army's attempt to keep warm by stuffing colorful cloth into their war-torn garments (from Survey of Historic Costumes, Phyllis G. Tortora and Keith Eubank, Fairchild Publications, c.1994, p. 157).

Also 'Purrrfect Patches' - patchwork with a difference. All designs can be viewed on my website which is updated weekly.

Don't join the crowd - stand out in it!