About werktat: A manufactory
We produce products around leather and felt in Ilsfeld.
We craft high-quality seating comfort: seat cushions, bench pads, and wall cushions. Beautiful and useful things for the table: coasters, placemats, desk pads, mousepads, and much more. Bags and accessories for everyday use round off our range. Every product is lovingly handcrafted. werktat stands for a pared-down, often minimalist design of our products, made from felt and leather. We want to delight you with our craftsmanship just as much as with our materials and the finished product – from seat cushions to simple sleeves to elaborate, personalized bags.
We love felt and leather
... due to the many unique properties and possibilities that the materials offer us. On the one hand clean edges that do not fray are created during cutting, so that you can work "open-edged", and on the other hand the stability and thickness give the products a rustic look.
Felt and leather you can touch and feel
Our showroom is waiting for you. Come visit us right where we make our felt products and leather goods – in our workshop. We look forward to seeing you!
The joy of creating
We craft all our felt and leather products by hand in Germany with many design options – also made to measure, such as our bench pads and custom-cut felt. We want you to enjoy them for as long and as much as we do during production.
The idea
Love of craftsmanship in leather and felt
Working with natural materials and experiencing true texture in our fast-paced digital world – that was the starting point for the idea of designing and making products from leather and felt. And there's nothing better than holding the beautiful result in our hands – and delighting our customers with it. That is why werktat stands for reduced, often minimalist design, which puts our beautiful materials felt and leather in the centre of attention. Exciting formats and well-known yet newly interpreted shapes, practically oriented, handmade, individual - unique. And always new. All products are designed and manufactured by us.
Blame the felt!
And then came the sewing machine.
A roll of felt, hand sewing thread and pricked fingers — that's how I made my first ‚werktat' in December 2012, a rug for our dining room. A few months later I got an old industrial sewing machine and got more felt — and leather, too. The versatility of the materials excited me, and after a short time I had the sewing machine under control; the many positive reactions from friends and acquaintances encouraged me to continue.
Taking Over the House!
Reinforcement in confined space:
The werktat project continues to grow, the old sewing machine is replaced by a new, more professional one and the punching machine now facilitates work in many places. Ann-Katrin joins the team with a lot of motivation and commitment. With the know-how of the master tailor and fashion designer we expand our product range. Ann-Katrin is our specialist for special solutions in the development of cuts with an eye for fine details and she loves to produce individual unique pieces.
Bursting at the seams
Move into the new workshop.
Soon "werktat" occupies several rooms, the hall, the garage and at times also the courtyard in our house. After a long search for suitable rooms we find what we are looking for and the project "werktat" moves with the help of friends and family. The workshop has been at Reinhold-Würth-Straße in Ilsfeld since May 2018 — and werktat is there to touch and visit in our small showroom. Since then: business as usual, in the best sense. New models whenever an idea strikes us — and ideas strike us all the time. The workshop is running, the showroom is open, and what hasn't changed since that very first rug: felt, leather, and the joy of making.