Every scarf you own is already a bag.
Swedish saddle leather, two solid rings, and a Japanese habit of carrying things in cloth. Nothing to fasten, nothing to break.
THE FOULARD HANDLE
Draw two corners of a scarf through the twin rings at either end; the metal grips the silk and holds. Change the cloth with the outfit, the season, the mood — one handle, a different bag each time.
- Full-grain vegetable-tanned calfskin — Tärnsjö Garveri, Sweden, tanning since 1873
- Two solid cast rings at either end, single hand-tightened screw fitting
- Edges burnished by hand with beeswax
- Signed and numbered by its maker
- Tones vary slightly from hide to hide, as they should
- 28 cm to carry in the hand · 58 cm to wear on the shoulder
- 2.6 cm wide · around 110 g
- Load-tested to 6 kg
- Takes any square from 70 to 110 cm
- Another length is made to order — write to us
- Cut and assembled after you order, dispatched within the week
- Complimentary delivery worldwide, tracked, duties paid
- Fourteen days to decide, as the law provides
- Return postage is yours
Saddle leather begins a little firm — a sign of quality, not a flaw. Within weeks it softens to your hand and deepens in colour.
- Wipe with a dry cloth
- Feed with balm twice a year
- Should a ring or fitting ever give, send it home
- We repair every handle we have made, for life
A bag is a square of cloth
and something to hold it by.
Three moves. No knot. Eight seconds.
70 to 110 cmAny square you own
Silk, cotton, linen. A scarf from a drawer, a market square from a holiday, an heirloom too good to fold away.
No knot to learnTwo corners, drawn through
Each corner passes through both rings, then folds back between them — exactly the way a ring belt closes. The pull of the bag pinches the silk between the rings: the harder it pulls, the tighter it holds.
Eight secondsLift — and it is a bag
The cloth finds its own shape and carries six kilos. Draw the corners further through for a compact bag; leave them long for a fuller one.
For four centuries, furoshiki — the Japanese art of carrying in cloth — stayed in Japan. We have reinterpreted it for the way you dress now, and made the one piece of hardware it never had.
SHOP THE FOULARD HANDLE — FROM € 69
For the drawer that has none.
The handle was made for the scarves you already own. This one is for the drawer that has none — silk twill woven in Como, edges rolled and stitched by hand, cut square to the centimetre so it falls the way it should.
CRAFTSMANSHIP
Most handles on the market are cut from thin splits that stretch within months. This one is cut from saddle leather — the grade that has to hold a horse — so it keeps its line for decades.
