Adventure Bay, first light

Canvas for salt air.

Unbleached cotton totes, printed one design at a time and posted from Tasmania. Sixteen inches square, fourteen-inch drop, nothing dyed.

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Fourteen prints, one bag underneath. Every tote is the same unbleached canvas. Only the print changes.

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Every bag

  • 16 × 16 inches


    40 × 40 cm, unlined and undyed

  • 14 inch drop


    Long enough for the shoulder, over a coat

  • Unbleached cotton

    Undyed, so the shade varies a little



  • Two print methods


    Line drawings and full colour

Two print methods

  • Cream cotton tote bag printed with three black dandelion heads and seeds drifting to the right

    Line drawings


    One colour, screen printed straight onto the canvas. The weave stays visible through the ink, so the drawing sits in the cloth rather than on top of it.

  • Full colour


    A printed panel, edge to edge, for the prints that need the whole spectrum.

Kapas means cotton.

Kapas is the word for raw cotton — the boll on the plant, before it becomes thread or cloth or anything else. It seemed right for a shop that sells one thing, made of one material.

We're on the water in Tasmania, where the wind comes off the Southern Ocean and everything gets carried somewhere. A bag that holds books, wet swimmers, half a market and a loaf of bread seemed like the honest place to start.

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