Eclectic Italian leather finds in Lower Pacific Heights

When you finally have your own place, you can indulge in all your oddball eccentricities (what roommate wants to live with hippie tapestries, cardboard football players, or you?). For a leather-goods company letting its eclectic flag fly, hit the new Hlaska store.Even now, SF's own Hlaska is stockpiling their Italian leather merch at their new Fillmore flagship: a Bill Nye-chic boutique (lab lamps & exposed pipes vs custom oak furniture) that's a perfect home for bags & billfolds inspired by "nature, science, and architecture" (sorry, "philology"). All-cow sacks range from the wood-grain-embossed "Evergreen Brief" to the multi-pocket, cotton-lined "Artifact Weekender"; less PETAgregious basket-weave fabric options come w/ just leather trim 'n handles, and include rugged "Caliper" duffels, backpacks, dopp kits in moss and black, and contrast interior laptop carriers from 13-17" -- if your screen's bigger, you and your freak lap are out of luck. Leather wallets include the 1950s speakerphone-inspired, punched-leather "Brisbane" and the laser cut "Astronomy" (holes form Big Dipper and Northern Cross); there're also mini "Nominal" card/coin holders and a magnetic money clip to securely clasp your bills (effectiveness decreases as financial security increases)Also on-site: silk ties emblazoned with sci-shoutouts like DNA and telescopes, and ltd edition bags sewn up with whatever fabric swatch caught the designer's eye -- stuff like binary codes and lunar patterns and, hey, isn't that your tapestry?