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Production & quality

The floor, not a stock photo of one

Every image on this page was taken on the Kolkata floor our goods are made on, photographed as it is. We would rather you see the real thing and ask hard questions than see a rendering and find out later.

Sampling room at Revati Craft, Bantala: pattern cutting, hide cutting and tech pack review in progress

Cut, stitched and inspected in Kolkata

Kolkata, because that is where the skill is

Kolkata accounts for roughly 60% of India's leather goods exports — bags, purses and wallets. The Calcutta Leather Complex at Bantala holds 224 tanneries, and the surrounding districts of Kasba, Topsia and Tangra hold the goods manufacturers. The cluster has been doing this since the 1920s.

That matters for a practical reason: pattern makers, edge painters and machine operators with fifteen years on the same operation are hireable here. They are not, in most places.

How an order actually runs

  • Tech pack or reference sample in. We come back with a costing, a materials list and a sampling date — normally within a working week.
  • Sampling, 18–21 days. You get a physical sample. Comments come back, we revise, and the second sample becomes the sealed sample.
  • Bulk cut authorised only against the sealed sample. Nothing goes into production on a drawing alone.
  • Production, 75–80 days. Capacity is 10,000+ units per month, so a 100-piece order is not competing with a 20,000-piece one for floor time.
  • 100% pre-shipment inspection. Every unit, not an AQL sample. Third-party inspection by SGS, Bureau Veritas or QIMA on request and at your cost.

Cutting, stitching, finishing

Placing the pattern on a black hide before hand cutting, Revati Craft, Kolkata
Sampling table at Revati Craft, Bantala: croc-embossed hide being cut for a first sample
A stitching station set up for a run.
A stitching station set up for a run.
The stitching floor — flat-bed and post-bed machines arranged by operation.
The stitching floor — flat-bed and post-bed machines arranged by operation.
The team mid-run. Units are assembled and checked at the table before they leave it.
The team mid-run. Units are assembled and checked at the table before they leave it.

Quality control

QC is in-house and it is documented. Each batch carries a reference that ties back to the leather lot, the sealed sample and the operator group, so if something is wrong in the field we can tell you where it came from rather than guessing.

Pre-shipment inspection covers every unit against a checklist agreed with you before the cut: dimensions to the sealed sample, stitch density and skipped stitches, edge paint coverage, hardware function cycled by hand, lining seams, symmetry, and colour against the approved swatch under a controlled light source.

Compliance

Revati Craft is an IEC-registered exporter, a unit of SSS Global Apex, Kolkata. Leather comes through an LWG-rated supply chain, materials are REACH-tested with third-party reports per shipment, and EUDR origin data is captured per order where your programme needs it.

Full compliance detail, test standards and registrations →

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Send a tech pack or a reference sample. We reply with feasibility, pricing tiers and a sampling timeline — usually within one business day.