The Postalco Travel Bag BW Black is a lightweight bag strong enough to carry a full load. Structured like a bridge, the bag is enough to stand up but is still lightweight and ready to go. As such, the Basket-like webbing sewn to the exterior supports this bag for stability.
Postalco's bridge bags are made of a single layer of fabric supported inside with series of webbing straps based on the structure of suspension bridges. This gives the bag strength yet remains very light. The earlier hammer nylon bags had the webbing on the interior, but with the newest Bamboo Wax, the webbings are shown on the outside.
Details
Measures 43 x 34 x 14 cm
Fits 13, 14 and 16-inch lMacoBook Pro, and fits A3 size documents
Features zips
Made from Postalco's Bamboo Wax Cloth and vegetable-tanned cowhide
Made in Japan
Care for your Postalco bag
* Clean by spot dry clean or wipe with a damp soft cloth
* Do not machine wash or place in the dryer
* Leather and fabric webbing may fade with use and colors may bleed when wet
* If your bag gets wet gently blot it with a soft dry cloth
* Only use water repellent spray made to be used with both leather and fabric
* If the leather feels dry, use a mild creme to replenish moisture (be sure to use only clear cream as any color will rub off)
Bamboo Wax Cloth
Postalco's original Bamboo Wax Cloth is made for strength and water resistance. Ecological bamboo fibers are visible giving this material its unique touch and slightly shimmering surface. Postalco developed this fabric in Japan for their Postalco bags. Lightweight and weather proof but made with natural fibers. The wax treatment means you don't need to worry about a little rain.
Bamboo is actually a kind of grass, but with superpowers. One of the fastest growing plants on Earth, it defying gravity with its impressive tubes. It absorbs carbon quickly as it grows. But bamboo is hard. That's what makes it strong. And also difficult to weave into fabric. Bamboo fibers are twisted with cotton to create this thin but durable cloth. Wax is then soaked deep inside the material for water resistance. This is no ordinary material so weaving machines capable of dealing with this tough yarn are needed. That is why all this happens under the expert guidance of a fabric mill in Okayama, an area of Japan with over 300 years of fabric weaving history. Exceptionally tightly woven for durability and water resistance so there's no need to worry about the weather. Softens with use to improve over time.
The Bamboo Wax Cloth is water repellent as the repellency treatment is fused directly into the fabric. No films or plastic sheets are glued to Bamboo Wax Cloth, allowing it to wear in to look better with use.
Vegetable-tanned cowhide
To increase strength, the leather was shrunken. This shrinking process makes the leather fibers more dense and imparts a soft flexibility. The signature of shrunken leather is the irregular ‘pebbly’ textured grain that varies from skin to skin.
Postalco leather is colored using aniline dyes. Aniline dyes soak into the leather, preserving the natural variation in grain and texture. The more aniline dyed leather is used, the better the surface patina gets over time. Making vegetable-tanned and aniline dyed leather is more expensive and time consuming, but produces beautiful leathers.
Misc-store Amsterdam x Postalco
At Misc-store, we absolutely adore the Postalco products for their incredible quality and and their general approach to product design. We as humans are restricted to what we can do on our own, and have developed a great variety of tools to help us through life. If the objects we use in our everyday life are well made, we will use them longer and with greater pleasure. This idea - the well-aging tool - is at the centre of Postalco's design approach.
Misc-store has carried the Postalco line since 2011. During this period, we have seen many versions and items come and go, and have grown to love the brand and its products more and more with each improvement.
We are not the only fans: our customers share this growing appreciation, and we have had the pleasure of seeing tons of different uses for Postalco's items. Especially their Snap Pad has been sold as a wedding guest book, a portfolio, a lamp color filter holder for a film director - its purpose is as varied as our customer base.
Misc-store Amsterdam x Postalco will be a collaboration to continue into the future: we are excited to see what more innovation they will bring, and what other ways people will come up with to use their products.
