Italian Leather Brown Croc Crossbody Bag — Handmade in California

Travel in style with this handmade leather crossbody bag. This elegant Bay Area–made handbag is perfect for someone on the go who wants to carry a lightweight crossbody. Customers love MONOLISA bags for their ultra-lightness and unique designs.

This colorful crossbody is crafted from vegetable-tanned Italian leather with an embossed croc finish and finished with gold hardware for irresistible style. To add a subtle touch of shimmer, the bag features a shiny stainless-steel spring-closure hardware element surrounded by precision-cut clear crystals.

This timeless crossbody comes with a cotton dust bag and is handmade in Clayton, California by artist Lisa Ramos.

The video above features Lisa Ramos making this style handbag.

The Handmade Handbag Process

The body of the bag is designed with a single piece of leather, resulting in a seamless and sophisticated style. Each design is an extensive process of creating a custom handbag pattern, serging a dust bag, sourcing raw materials, hand cutting the materials, treating the leather, and meticulously sewing each piece to create a high-quality bag you can wear for years to come.

The bag is handcrafted personally by Bay Area handbag designer Lisa Ramos in her Clayton, California studio. MONOLISA bags are not mass produced or sold in retail stores. They can only be purchased on this website or at a MONOLISA show.

MONOLISA handbags have been featured at the San Francisco American Craft Show and other additional fine art juried shows. MONOLISA’s mission is to design beautifully handmade limited-edition pieces that add a touch of elegance to any personal style.

Italian Leather Brown Croc Crossbody Bag Details

Bag Leather: Beautiful vegetable-tanned Italian leather with an embossed croc design. A classical high-shine top finish and a firm temper from vegetable tanning. Vegetable-tanned leather is more expensive because it requires more skill and knowledge to tan. This premium leather is handbag designer Lisa’s personal favorite leather to work with.

Bag Size: 9\" base | 9.75\" heightBag Strap: 47\" longInterior Details: Natural brown raw edge.

My Design Process

“My mission is to design beautifully handmade limited edition pieces that add a touch of elegance to any personal style. Each design is an extension of who I am. I fell in love with the creative process because of the unlimited possibilities. My inspiration comes from exploring new ways to improve my designs and creating pieces that require a new skill set... during that process inspiration is born.”

To learn more about my design process and artistic journey read my Artist Life Blog .