Veronique Durand makes the bags at Gilles Berthoud. When we visited she was working on a Wallbike order. Completed bags are in the bin directly behind her.

Berthoud bags are made in a very traditional French manner. When Gilles learned that the venerable Sologne firm was to cease production he bought the patterns and equipment and continued making the bags much as they had been constructed for decades. The most obvious deviation from tradition is the more modern hardware used to affix the panniers to a rack.