About Escama Studio

Escama purses are impeccably handcrafted from something that most people throw away - recycled pop tabs. We're an ongoing experiment in sustainability. Escama Studio is based in San Francisco and Brazil and we've worked with the same group of 60 ingenious women artisans since 2004. We see our venture as a successful model of sustainability and social contribution. Escama purses and accessories could be mistaken for items mass-produced by machines. They are not. Each piece is a work of true ingenuity, made one at a time by artisans skilled in a unique Brazilian handicraft. From a scarcity of resources but an abundance of creativity, a pile of post-consumer aluminum scrap is transformed into stunning metallic works of art. Read their story