The tote carried by the sea, filled with flowers.
The tote on a shoulder against a pink wall.
The tote carried through a garden with a sunflower.
The tote held up against a deep blue background.
Upcoming

The Audecius Tote

Heavyweight organic cotton, printed once with our mark. Made for a market run, a term of textbooks and the flight home — in that order, in the same year.

$38incl. VAT · EU shipping from $4
Colour — Natural canvas
Natural

One colourway at launch. Undyed canvas holds the print better than a bleached one.

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Limit 4 per order in the first run
Notify me at launch

Checkout opens when the first run lands. Until then the button stays off rather than taking an order we cannot fill.

Free returns for 30 days — unused, and we pay the label.
Sewn in Portugal — in an audited factory we name on the label.
First run is EU only — elsewhere follows once we can quote a real delivery time.
Details

A flat 10 cm base so it stands on a table instead of folding over what is inside it, and a 38 cm mouth wide enough for a week of flowers or a stack of A4 folders.

Handles are 70 cm — long enough to go over a shoulder with a coat on, short enough to carry in the hand without dragging. Every handle joint is bar-tacked, which is the stitch that fails last.

Materials & care

340 gsm organic cotton canvas, pre-shrunk, undyed. The print is a single water-based ink on the front panel only — nothing on the back, nothing on the straps, no woven label shouting on the outside.

Wash at 30°, no tumble dry, iron inside out. It will soften over the first month and keep its shape after that.

Shipping & returns

EU shipping from $4, two to five working days. Thirty days to return anything unused — we pay the label and refund to the original method.

Nothing ships yet: this page is a product record, not a checkout. You will get one email when that changes.

Why we made it

The brief to the maker was one sentence: a bag a student still uses two years after the exchange ended.

Everything else followed from that — the weight of the canvas, the single print, the bar-tacks, and the decision not to put a logo on both sides.

340 gsm organic cotton.Not a giveaway tote.

One print, water-based.Nothing on the back.

Sewn in the EU.Audited, and named on the label.

Out in the world

Four ways it already looks worn in

The tote carried over a shoulder with flowers, by the sea.
At the market

Wide enough for a week of flowers

A flat base and a 38 cm mouth — it stands up on a table instead of folding over what is inside it.

The tote on a shoulder against a pink wall.
On a shoulder

Straps that sit where you want them

70 cm handles: over a shoulder with a coat on, or in the hand without dragging.

The tote held up against a deep blue background.
The mark

Printed once, and only once

Water-based ink on the front panel. Nothing on the back, nothing on the straps.

The tote carried through a garden with a sunflower.
Every day

Washed at 30°, and it keeps its shape

Pre-shrunk 340 gsm canvas with double-stitched seams and bar-tacked handle joints.

The object

Specified, so you can hold us to it

Every number here is on the product page rather than in a footnote. If one of them turns out to be wrong when it ships, we will change the number and say so.

Natural canvas · one print colour
Fabric340 gsm organic cotton canvas, pre-shrunk
Size38 × 42 cm, with a 10 cm flat base
Handles70 cm, bar-tacked at every joint
PrintWater-based ink, front panel only
Care30° wash, no tumble dry, iron inside out
Made inPortugal, in an audited factory we name on the label
The tote carried through a garden.
“A bag a student still uses two years after the exchange ended.”

The only brief we gave the maker.

Coming next

Three more, and nothing before it is ready

Upcoming

The arrival kit

A document folder, a luggage tag and the emergency card — the three things every student loses in the first fortnight.

Upcoming

The coordinator jacket

For the person standing in an arrivals hall at six in the morning. Warm, quiet, and findable in a crowd.

Upcoming

The year book

A printed record of the exchange, generated from her own timeline — and only ever ordered by her.

One email when it ships

No launch countdown, no waiting list politics. We write once, when you can actually order it.