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Valdera 34 Weekender
A four-day bag that goes under a cabin locker. Vegetable-tanned shoulder, saddle-stitched, brass that will not flake.
Three views · the bag opened with a weekend in it, the shoulder it is cut from, the strap that comes with it
€690VAT included · €6 delivery in Italy, free over €250
Colour
Both darken about two shades in the first six months.
Shoulder strap
105 cm sits on the hip on most people; 128 cm clears a winter coat.
3 left on the shelf · the next cut of six is booked for 11 April
Add to the order — €690
Compare it with the other eleven
- Delivery
- Italy €6 · EU €14 · elsewhere €28
- Dispatch
- Tuesday and Friday, from Peccioli
- Returns
- 60 days, unworn, at our cost
What it carries
Thirty-four litres, counted
We packed the bag for a real four-day trip, photographed it open, then wrote down everything that went in. Nothing below is an estimate.
- Capacity, water-filled
- 34 l
- Empty weight
- 1.19 kg
- Outside, closed
- 52 × 27 × 26 cm
- Mouth opening
- 46 cm
- Laptop sleeve
- Fits 16 in · 38 × 26 cm
- Shirts, folded
- 2 plus a jacket folded once
- Shoes
- 1 pair to size 45, in the base pocket
- Wash bag
- Up to 24 × 14 cm, stands upright
- Cabin lockers it clears
- 55 × 40 × 20 cm, soft-packed
- Hide thickness
- 3.6 — 3.8 mm shoulder
Opened, emptied, counted
We do this with all twelve before a single one goes on the site. If the photograph cannot show it fitting, the page does not claim it.
Eleven hours on the bench
One hide, two needles, four stages. This is what the four-week lead time on a cut-to-order bag is spent on.
Mark around the scars
A shoulder is not a rectangle. Giulio lays the pattern over the hide and works around the brands and fly-bite, which is why two Valderas are never the same colour across the panel.
Skive, fold, glue
Every edge that turns gets thinned to 1.1 mm first, by hand with a French knife. Skip it and the corner doubles in thickness and will not take a stitch cleanly.
Two needles, one thread
Seven stitches to the inch in waxed linen, pulled from both sides so the seam locks even if a thread is cut. Roughly forty minutes a metre, and there are just over six metres in this bag.
Burnish four times
Sand, wet, rub, wax, repeat. The edge is the part your hand meets most and the first thing that goes grey on a cheap bag, so it gets four passes and a final one in gum.
Before you order this one
What is in the box?
The bag, the shoulder strap in the length you chose, a cotton dust bag, a 50 ml tin of neutral wax, the cutter's card with the hide number and the date, and a stamped repair form. The base pocket ships with a removable 3 mm board in it.
Is 34 litres too much for three days?
Probably not — it collapses when it is half full because there is no frame in the sides. If you travel with two shirts and no laptop, the 21 litre Libbiano Market Tote is €435 cheaper and does the same job badly only on aeroplanes.
When will it arrive, and what does delivery cost?
From the shelf: tracked, two to three days in Italy at €6, four to six across the EU at €14, seven to twelve elsewhere at €28, and free once the order passes €250. Cut to order: four weeks from the day we take the deposit, then the same delivery times.
Can I send it back?
Sixty days, at our cost, unworn and with the brass unmarked. Pack it in anything — we reuse the box. Cut-to-order bags with a blind-stamped monogram cannot come back, and we will say so again in writing before we cut.
How do I look after it?
Almost nothing. Wax it twice a year with the tin in the box. Let it dry away from a radiator if it gets soaked. Do not condition it monthly — over-fed leather goes limp, and the frame of this bag is the hide itself.
Cut from the same hide
All twelve pieces
Try it with your own things in it.
Bring a weekend's packing to Peccioli on a Thursday and we will load the bag in front of you. If it does not close, you have not lost anything but the drive.