Modern spin to a familiar material leads to dream business

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They’re cheap, they’re reliable, and they often carry with them perfect nostalgia. Whether you know them as Chinatown totes or Machangani, this nylon bag is the epitome of profound sentimental memories.

While migration and mining are often a major attribute, the modern reinterpretations of the bag have seen them used as the canvas for appropriation and a confrontational high-art pieces. However, leatherworker Msizi Ntini is turning this dated bag into his own fortune through his business, KP Leather.

Ntini’s grandfather had taught him the foundations of making leather shoes before he passed away. It was after seeing his grandfather in a dream that Ntini decided to start a leather-goods business.[walking stick] and asked me to go fetch his shoes. When I brought them to him, he told me to sew them instead,” Ntini says. “I realised I had no tools to do the sewing, so I ran around and used the wires from a bicycle as an awl [a tool for puncturing holes].

Working first with leather goods, Ntini created chic bags for his customers but looked to a more authentic source to give the bags pizzazz.shweshwe,

 

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