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How a VERANI sandal is made

From hide selection to the number: the House's construction sequence.

Selection

Every hide is inspected before cutting. A material enters the House only after it has been proven — the standard set in 1896 and never moved. Hides that pass are lotted and recorded; the lot follows the piece to its number.

Cutting and closing

Panels are cut with the grain's stretch mapped to the sandal's flex, then closed — stitched and assembled — by hand. The strap geometry of the Arabic sandal leaves nowhere for error to hide: three straps, every edge visible.

Lasting and finishing

The upper is set over the last, married to its sole system, and finished: edges inked and burnished, surfaces dressed by hand. Nothing carries the name VERANI in its first version — construction methods are adopted only when the previous one has been exhausted.

The number

Finished pairs are inspected, numbered and entered in the House's record. The number ties the piece to its hides, its dates and its hands.

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Cut, closed, finished and numbered by hand within the House, on constructions refined since 1896.

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