CARRY YOUR ROYALTY WITH YOU

Carry your royalty with you. On the exterior, the minimalist elegance of this leather tote with its fine lines and soft, supple cognac or black toned full grain leather, meets and exceeds standards in today’s women’s handbag collections.

Its simple, unlined style minimizes the need for visible stitching and softens the overall aesthetic of the bag.

The interior pocket design and generous sizing suits a variety of functions, holding laptop, clothing, wallet, keys, notebooks, rosary and much more (some even use it as a diaper bag).

Each tote has been accessorized with one final feminine touch: the silk habotai ribbon embellished with a cross of Swarovski crystals.

Appropriate for a multitude of occasions, from day to night, from personal to professional, this leather tote has become the most common, versatile, and, as we have heard our customers say, “on trend” of handbags.

19″ W (top) x 16 1/2″ W (bottom) x 13″ H
9″ handle drop
100% leather, unlined, in rich cognac or deep black
Pure raw silk ribbon
Authentic Swarovski® crystals cross
Interior pocket with limited edition numbered inscription
Designed and hand-drawn secret interior floral glyph pattern by Christina Yep
Handlettered Beauty lies within you by Maria Seo Brown
Handcrafted by Arte y Piel leather artisans in San Julian, El Salvador
White Beauty Lies Within You reusable dustbag tote & white and gold gift box

SECRET INTERIOR

As with the wearer – whose refined exterior reveals only glimpses of her true self, the true masterpiece of the House of Royals tote lies within.

If its exterior has become known for simplicity, the tote’s interior of unlined raw leather will be an unexpected wonder, with its lavish hand-drawn floral pattern – royal jasmine and native floral glyphs – of transcendent meaning.

This floral pattern is taken from the dress worn by “La Reina” herself, Our Lady of Guadalupe, queen and patroness, on the day of her apparition to Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac, Mexico, 1531. This image, which first appeared beneath a shower of Castilian roses on his simple tilma, can still be visited today, as she still hovers miraculously over the same tilma, over 500 years later, at the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico.

At the center of this sacred artwork is the stirring reminder:

Beauty lies within you.

"This tote is designed for the bearer and for noone else.
Its hidden interior points to the larger truth about her royal heritage as God’s beloved and I hope that she will feel the accompaniment of the Queen and the love of the King every time she carries it. Do you want to open it up and show a friend? Do it. Do you want to keep this message to yourself? Go ahead. It's for you."

Christina Yep
Beauty Lies Within You
Designer

Floral Glyphs and Night Stars - Patterns of the True Royals

We can't claim sole custody of the patterns that lie within the Royals leather tote - although we have found a new way to express them.

The floral glyphs and night stars patterns found in House of Royals pieces originate with the Queen of Heaven apparition to a humble, open-hearted man in Mexico, at the time when the gods and goddesses of the region were believed to be foreboding characters who governed with stern systems and demanded bloody child sacrifice and ritual for the flourishing of the nation.

When the woman appeared on the hill of Tepeyac, she approached the man with tenderness, wearing the teal and rose red of the tribal goddesses, imprinted with floral glyphs that symbolized pictorially in their language, both the rivers and mountains of native worship and also the arteries leading to a heart. She was clothed with the night sky constellations of the day she appeared.

She also appeared pregnant, with the waist band of the pregnant tribal mothers, and her dress of glyphs was covered in jasmine flowers, none more prominent than the one hovering above her womb. That one jasmine flower, unlike all the others she wore, was the four-petaled jasmine, the Mayan empire's symbol for their highest deity. It was as if she could hardly contain the fact - even in her royal dress - that the Son in her womb was indeed the true Deity that their hearts had been longing for.

The beauty that lies within.

La Guadalupana

The Virgin of Guadalupe appeared in Mexico several times, most prominently on December 12, 1531, dressed in royal garb and bearing a message of motherly tenderness, revolutionizing the prevalent thought on deities and royalty at the time. Upon her mantle she bore the constellations present in the stars that night over Mexico, and her dress bore symbolic floral glyphs and jasmine flowers.

Limited Edition Series

In envisioning the Beauty Lies Within You tote, we wanted to ensure each woman knew how literally unrepeatable she is. Numbering the bags with a serial number has provided us the opportunity for her to know that she is so particularly special, and she can claim ownership of her number.

Only 100 of these have been created in each color, and a new series may follow, but for now, they are the only ones of their kind in the entire universe.

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Royal Impact & A Force for Good

Arte & Piel x Royals: A collaboration for artisanal beauty and a force for good.
Each leather product is handcreated and sewn by Salvadoran hands under the skilled guidance of Gabriel Pleitez, owner and entrepreneur of El Salvador’s Arte & Piel. Arte & Piel and House of Royals share a vision of elevating life to beauty and grace, providing work for local leathermakers of San Julian and the highest possible quality for each customer. Arte & Piel creates many varieties of accessories in genuine leather, building upon a modern and elegant style in the daily life of their international customer base and delicately caring for every detail, particularly the option for personalization, to help their customers write stories that last a lifetime.
Every weekend, Arte & Piel also leads an arduous humanitarian trip into the jungle of El Salvador to build steel roofs onto the makeshift homes (often previously constructed of branches, cardboard and plastic) for the poorest of the poor in their locality. Each piece Gabriel and his team produce for House of Royals has lasting effects on the living wage of their own employees as well as the sponsorship of the poor of their villages and surroundings, and it is for this reason that Arte & Piel and House of Royals strive to grow into even higher levels of excellence and beauty, with a view to extending this impact with every purchase.