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Taking longer to construct than many traditional luxury bags (including the Birkin), it employs highly specialised chainmail techniques developed within the Catholic Guilt atelier, replacing conventional ideas of leatherwork and hardware with thousands of individually manipulated metal links and precious stone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt its centre, a labradorite rose blooms from the body of the bag, embedded using Ella Jackson’s proprietary ruffled chainmail technique. The metal gathers and folds around the stone like fabric, creating something simultaneously armoured and delicate - a piece of jewellery expanded to the scale of an object.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDespite the fluidity of its construction, \u003cem\u003eBlume\u003c\/em\u003e is engineered to hold its silhouette even when hanging. 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