What Borlino truely is and How we do it..
Borlino starts by creating a product to service a need. Designing from the inside out, we ensure that our products serve form and function to meet the needs of today's world. Cell phones, tablets, and laptops have become part of our daily lives and a great deal of thought goes into the practical design aspects of each Borlino product. Whether the occasion calls for a compact bag for your tablet or a larger briefcase for your legal-sized folders, there is a Borlino bag for every need. We even have products with hidden compartments which can be used by undercover law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons.
Borlino's design process is thoughtful, meticulous, and never rushed. We design the exterior of the product starting with pencil sketches. Throughout the building of several prototypes an evolution takes place. We put the same attention into every detail on the exterior as we do the interior. Many of these quality details cannot be seen in the final product. Such as gluing threads and letting the glue briefly set before being hand-tied, glued again to the surface, and applying an additional small taping cover to ensure stitching will never come loose. Or hand-stitching corners for additional strength and support. Look closely and you will find a lot of passion for perfection in every product we make.
Once a product is designed to meet the Borlino standards, we then seek out the best Italian materials. After many months of searching for the finest-quality leathers, we found our tanner just outside of Florence. Spanning three generations, our tanner uses ancient vegetable-tanning methods dating back to the Roman Empire. This is still the most environmentally-friendly method of tanning leather. Processed with ingredients found in vegetable matter such as tree bark prepared in bark mills and other natural materials, the leather is first supple and brown in color. Next, a coloring dye is added, soaking into the hide. Unlike pigment-printed leathers that most luxury leather companies use, when vegetable-tanned leather is scratched you simply rub the leather and the coloring comes right back; the scuff will disappear before your eyes. Never compromising on excellence, our metals and linings must be of superior quality as well. If the product carries the Borlino name, then perfection is paramount.
Borlino's design process is thoughtful, meticulous, and never rushed. We design the exterior of the product starting with pencil sketches. Throughout the building of several prototypes an evolution takes place. We put the same attention into every detail on the exterior as we do the interior. Many of these quality details cannot be seen in the final product. Such as gluing threads and letting the glue briefly set before being hand-tied, glued again to the surface, and applying an additional small taping cover to ensure stitching will never come loose. Or hand-stitching corners for additional strength and support. Look closely and you will find a lot of passion for perfection in every product we make.
Once a product is designed to meet the Borlino standards, we then seek out the best Italian materials. After many months of searching for the finest-quality leathers, we found our tanner just outside of Florence. Spanning three generations, our tanner uses ancient vegetable-tanning methods dating back to the Roman Empire. This is still the most environmentally-friendly method of tanning leather. Processed with ingredients found in vegetable matter such as tree bark prepared in bark mills and other natural materials, the leather is first supple and brown in color. Next, a coloring dye is added, soaking into the hide. Unlike pigment-printed leathers that most luxury leather companies use, when vegetable-tanned leather is scratched you simply rub the leather and the coloring comes right back; the scuff will disappear before your eyes. Never compromising on excellence, our metals and linings must be of superior quality as well. If the product carries the Borlino name, then perfection is paramount.