Mini Backpack
A bite-sized backpack perfect for the essentials. Each backpack includes adjustable leather straps, two large outer zipper pockets, one interior zip pocket, and heavy-duty, cast, antique brass hardware.
Exterior — Hand-screen printed and/or solid vegetable tanned leather
Interior — Sturdy black cotton lining
Dimensions — 9.5” L x 9” W x 3” D
Care — Black:- Dry clean only by a leather professional. Print- Hand clean only by a leather professional
Delivery — Ships within 3 days via USPS Priority Mail. “Restock” orders ship within 3 weeks. Contact us if you would like us to expedite your order.
Made in the USA
Choose minimalist black or maximalist printed leather. The black mini backpack showcases the natural textures and variations inherent in vegetable tanned leather. The printed leather backpack features a two-color offset print designed by artist Paula J. Wilson and hand screen printed in Chicago by artist Nora Renick-Reinhart, using water based inks.
Our vegetable tanned leather is from Horween, a unionized tannery founded in 1905 and the last tannery left in Chicago. Vegetable tanning is a slow, non-toxic process which uses tree bark extracts to cure the leather and which produces hides with rich, warm, and uniquely variegated tones that improve as they age. Vegetable tanned leather can be more easily and safely recycled than chrome tanned leather (the most commonly used and often quite toxic method of processing leather). Vegetable tanned leather retains the grain patterns, marks, and scars picked up by the animal during its lifetime; each bag reflects these variations of the hide.
All pieces are cut in our Chicago workshop and sewn by stitchers whom we employ directly (without the use of contractors or piecework), using a slow fashion model of manufacture, wherein workers are paid a living wage. Our pieces are made one-by-one, and can be customized to your measures and preferences.
