Cotton Canvas
8 bags12 oz and 18 oz, dyed and undyed.
Flaxbound — Nashville, Tennessee
Three fibres, one construction, and we tell you exactly what each one does badly.
Cotton canvas, jute, cork and linen. No synthetic fibre in any body panel, and no claim on this site that we cannot show you the evidence for.
- Bags
- 40
- Price
- USD 22–246
- Purchase
- One-time
Every one of these is a photograph of something going wrong.
Natural fibres shed, crease, spot and yellow. Our competitors photograph around it. We photographed it directly, because you will meet all four of these anyway.
Cotton Canvas
Undyed canvas yellows in sunlight over months.
About cotton
Jute
Unlined jute sheds fibres for the first few uses.
About jute
Cork
Cork spots if soaked. Wipe it, never submerge it.
About cork
Linen
Linen creases. That is the fibre, not a defect.
About linenWe’d rather you know now.
Fibre Picker
We don’t ask what you like. We ask what you can’t live with.
Tick the things that would annoy you, and we rule fibres out — and tell you which trait ruled each one out. If everything gets ruled out, we say so rather than selling you something you already told us you would dislike.
Start with what you can’t accept- Loose fibres coming off the bag
- Creasing that doesn't hang out
- Marks left behind by water
- Colour shifting over the years
- Weight before anything goes in
- Washing it by hand
Six lines, organised by fibre — not by season.
All 40 bags
Where people usually start.
Four-Fibre Tote
USD 128
Cotton Canvas with jute and cork and linen, undyed
LimitEvery limitation of all four fibres applies to this one bag at once.
Canvas Undyed
USD 42
Cotton Canvas, undyed
LimitMarks show more readily than on dyed canvas, and they stay.
Jute Beach
USD 52
Jute, undyed
LimitThe open base weave that lets sand out will also let small items out. Nothing loose and valuable at the bottom.
Fibre Sampler
USD 128
Cotton Canvas with jute and cork and linen, dyed
LimitFour fibres means four sets of limitations and four cleaning methods.
What we will not write
No claim on this site is one we cannot evidence.
We do not describe anything here with the vague environmental vocabulary the rest of this category runs on. Those words are close to impossible to substantiate, so we do not use them. What you get instead is the fibre, the weight, the origin, the dye type and the hardware material, on every page.
Fibre composition
Body, lining, thread and hardware, each named
Measured dimensions
Three dimensions, empty weight, load rating
Dye disclosure
Dyed or undyed; dyed pieces name the dye type
Honest Limits
At least one thing the fibre does badly