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The Hands Behind the House
Every House of Bunkar piece passes through roughly a dozen sets of hands before it is finished. These are some of them.
We have chosen, deliberately, not to turn our artisans into a marketing device. Their names matter less to us than their standards — which is why the profiles below describe roles and decades of practice rather than offering staged portraits. What we can tell you is this: most learned the trade from a parent, several have been with the House for more than twenty years, and not one of them has ever been asked to work faster than the work allows.
Jodhpur Atelier
Trained from the age of sixteen under his father's eye, our master cutter has spent over thirty years reading hides before a single cut is made. He still refuses to use a laser guide.
Jodhpur Atelier
Responsible for the House's signature stitch, she trained for four years before being permitted to work unsupervised — a rite of passage every stitcher in the atelier has passed through.
Jodhpur Atelier
The last hands a piece passes through before inspection. Three decades of burnishing edges by hand have given him a touch that machinery has never been able to replicate.
Jodhpur Atelier
Keeper of the House's paper patterns, some unchanged since the atelier's earliest years. New collections still begin on her cutting table, sketched before they are ever modelled.
Jodhpur Atelier
Sets every clasp, ring, and buckle by hand, checking tension on each before a piece is approved. No two pieces leave his bench in exactly the same number of minutes.
Jodhpur Atelier
Oversees the House's small apprenticeship programme — the same one through which most of our senior artisans first arrived, often as teenagers from families already known to the trade.