Showing posts from category: bags
Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Acassi: Tweed & Leather Bags Made in England

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Acassi  (link below) is a British brand making bags for men. Launched in 2016 by founder Julie Paisley, it uses British made and sourced m...
Monday, 1 May 2017

AG'E-MES: Bags Designed and Made in Britain

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A new brand on the block, Ag'e-Mes design and make all the components for their bags in Britain. From Northampton, Walsall and Dundee,...
Tuesday, 14 March 2017

New Globe Traveller Bags on Kickstarter: Support a Child's Education

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New Globe Traveller bags are made from upcycled leather and rubber inner tubes. On each purchase, the primary school education of an under...
Wednesday, 13 July 2016

Hawkesmill bags: made in England - A Review

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Hawkesmill bags are made in England and come with a lifetime defects warranty. I was recently sent a large messenger camera bag for review...
Thursday, 30 June 2016

Chapman Bags: Eleven Things You Need to Know About Man Bags By Daniel Chamier

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Chapman Bags are made in Carlisle, England. It was founded in the 1980s by John Chapman who made shooting and fishing bags which he sold a...
Friday, 9 October 2015

Millican bags - Mark the Field Bag, for rural & urban explorers

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Sometimes an explorer needs a bag more accessible and less bulky than a rucksack. Botanists, searching the wilderness for exotic plants, wo...
Saturday, 5 September 2015

Holdall & Co: leather goods made in England - 30% off sale

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Holdall & Co have been mentioned many times on this blog before. Their beautifully made leather folios, brief cases and wallets are mad...
Sunday, 1 February 2015

Catherine Aitken - Harris tweed bags and accessories made in Scotland

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Catherine Aitken's studio is in Leith, Edinburgh, where she creates bags, scarves and other accessories for both men and women from Har...
Sunday, 21 December 2014

Cherchbi Squires holdalls for town and country - the best of British design

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Cherchbi is one of the brands that fuelled my enthusiasm for British-made goods. It has all the ingredients I like; an enthusiastic owner...
Friday, 19 December 2014

Friday Favourite: Tusting Clipper leather bag made in England

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I'd been looking for a useful bag for months. It had to be a comfortable shoulder bag, not too bulky, and take what I need for blogging...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Ruxx Bags - Made in England

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Ruxx Bags  is a brand new to me. They hand-make their bags in Oxfordshire, England and their recently-relaunched website includes a man...
Friday, 14 November 2014

Friday Favourites: Trakke bags, The Sock Council Argyle socks

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Trakke Bags I've written about Trakke Bags here before and said how impressed I was by this small Scottish business's design and...
Monday, 7 July 2014

Emma Cornes talks about her British-made bags and manufacturing in the UK

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Emma Cornes grew up in the Tweed Valley where here father was a wool-producing sheep farmer. It's therefore natural, perhaps, that she...
Friday, 27 June 2014

Trakke - video introducing the Scottish manufacturer of outstanding adventure bags

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TRAKKE makes truly outstanding adventure bags in Scotland. I'll be writing about them soon, but wanted to introduce them to you with...
Monday, 23 June 2014

Healthy Back bags - minimising back problems

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Like many of us, I  occasionally suffer from back problems linked to carrying heavy bags over one shoulder. I often carry a camera, lens, n...