featured Waxed Canvas vs Dry Canvas vs Polyester Canvas (A Bag Buyer's Guide)
Waxed canvas vs dry canvas vs polyester canvas: which one earns a five year commute? Three fabrics share the word "canvas" on a bag product page, and they behave nothing like each other in the rain or five years down the line. This guide is a side-by-side comparison of the three canvases a UK bag buyer is most likely to be sold,...
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How to Break In a Full-Grain Leather Bag (Without Ruining It)
How to break in a full-grain leather bag without ruining it A new full-grain leather bag is stiff on purpose. The fibres are tight, the surface is even, and the bag holds its shape on the shelf. The first six weeks of use decide whether the leather softens the right way (a soft, even patina, darkening where your hand rests, creasing where...
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A Short History of the British Holdall
A short history of the British holdall The British holdall did not arrive as a fashion item. It arrived as a piece of working kit, the bag a doctor or a commercial traveller threw into the back of a carriage for two nights, and it evolved into the weekend travel bag almost by accident. The shape and the name stuck because the...
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How Wether & Hide Bags Are Made (and Why Hybrid)
A Wether and Hide bag is not built to be the lightest, the cheapest, or the most fashion-led option on the shelf. It is built to survive a British commute and a British weekend away, and to look better at the end of both than it did at the start. That single decision drives almost every choice below: why the shell is...
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