Inspire

11/10/2011

Traditional Postman Satchel

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I love collecting old postmen’s photos and get even more excited if they have a satchel on their shoulder.Here is a small collection of them. The oldest photo dates from the 1870’s

old postman leather satchel

vintage postman bag
vintage leather postal bag

antique postal bag
Here is our modern take on the traditional postman’s satchel
postman bag grafea

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24/06/2011

Original 60s & 70s Print Fabric

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We love 60s and 70s floral fabric and it looks gorgeous against our rich caramel leather so at the moment we are
putting down some ideas for lining a new hippie/bohemian saddle bag collection…..
vintage fabric

flowers fabric

original vintage fabric

psycedelic print fabric

60s fabric

13/01/2011

Vintage Coach Travel-BBC series

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travel by coach 50s

coach travel bag vintage

Time Shift-The golden age of coach travel is a documentary well worth watching on bbc iplayer about 1950s England coach travel .

leather briefcase vintage travel

We have designed a 50s inspired satchel you can view more photos of it here

15/11/2010

Peter Sellers

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peter sellers and Wife

Peter Sellers & his wife at an airport holding beautiful luggage

20/08/2010

Vintage trunk restoration

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old wooden trunk

If you have an old battered trunk you can easily transform it into a thing of beauty
using little more than a selection of modern fabrics.

source: Homes& Antiques Magazine -September Issue
vintage trunk restoration

vintage trunk

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07/08/2010

60s Fashion is cool

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vintage 60s green dress

60s and 70s dress fashion is cool.

31/07/2010

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vintage tooled bag

Embossing seems to be the thing of the moment.Everybody wants a bag with their initials on it.

Hopefully we will be offering that in the near future.
The pictured bag is a tooled handpainted vintage one.

30/07/2010

1930’s Handbag

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handbag

vintage handbag

snakeskin bag

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