Aïssatou Diallo
Leather atelier — Dakar
Aïssatou runs a six-person atelier in Ouakam where every bag is saddle-stitched with two needles and one thread. She trains three apprentices a year and refuses machine seams on structured pieces.
Territory
Senegal
Dakar ateliers where vegetable-tanned leather is cut, stitched and burnished by hand.
Ateliers
Ousmane Ndiaye
Goldsmith & filigree — Dakar
Fourth-generation filigree worker from the Médina, Ousmane draws his own wire and builds Wolof-inflected forms fine enough to bend around a finger.
Cultural stories
Soumbédioune: the leather quarter of Dakar
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