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A small tote has one job that a large one does not: it has to hold its shape when it is nearly empty. A soft small bag collapses into a pouch and you lose everything at the bottom of it. Every bag on this page is built on a reinforced base panel and structured sides so it stands upright on a table whether it is full or not.
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Brown Leather Tote BagsAt this size the honest answer is a phone, a purse, keys, glasses, a small notebook and a 500ml bottle. The 30cm canvas small will take a 13 inch laptop; the 26cm Juno will not, and we would rather say so than let you find out. If you need a laptop, the laptop totes are the page you want.
A smaller bag uses less leather and roughly the same number of hours. The stitching, the edge burnishing and the hardware are identical, and the edges are proportionally longer for the panel area, so the finishing work does not scale down. That is why a $149 small tote and a $209 large one are closer in price than the size difference suggests.
Small totes are the bags we monogram most often, usually as gifts. Three letters, blind pressed, no colour, is the option people regret least, because it reads as a maker's mark rather than a label. See personalised bags and gifts for placement.
| Juno | Wren, small | Ellis, small | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening | 26cm | 28cm | 30cm |
| Height | 20cm | 24cm | 26cm |
| Depth at base | 11cm | 11cm | 12cm |
| Handle drop | 18cm | 21cm | 22cm |
| Weight empty | 0.6kg | 0.75kg | 0.7kg |
| Closure | Full length brass zip | Open top | Leather tab |
| Tablet or laptop | Neither | Tablet | 13 inch laptop |
| Price from | $149 | $179 | $135 |
A phone, a purse, keys, glasses, a small notebook and a 500ml bottle. That is the honest list for all three. The 30cm Ellis will also take a 13 inch laptop; the 26cm Juno will not take any laptop at all and we say so on its product page rather than letting you find out. If you need a machine with you every day, this is the wrong page and the laptop totes are the right one.
A soft small bag collapses into a pouch the moment it is half empty, and everything you own ends up in a heap at the bottom. Every bag here is built on a reinforced base panel with structured sides, so it stands upright on a table whether it holds three things or ten. That is also why the interiors are deliberately simple: at this size a bag with five pockets is a bag you cannot find anything in, so the Juno has one zip pocket and a card slot and nothing else.
A small tote uses less leather and roughly the same number of hours. The hand stitching, the four passes of edge burnishing and the solid brass hardware are identical, and the edges are proportionally longer for the panel area, so the finishing does not scale down with the size. That is why $135 to $179 here sits closer to the $209 large bags than the difference in size suggests, and it is the same reason a small bag from a real workshop never costs a quarter of a large one.
These three, and it is the monogram that does it. Three letters blind pressed with no colour reads as a maker's mark rather than a label, and it is the option people regret least. It is free, it adds about a day, and we send you a proof of the placement first. Personalised bags and gifts covers the placement options.
Only in the small Ellis at 30cm. The Wren at 28cm takes a tablet, and the Juno at 26cm takes neither. Every product page states this plainly rather than claiming a fit that does not exist.
For most days, yes: phone, purse, keys, glasses, a notebook and a bottle. It stops working the day you need to carry a laptop and a lunch, which is what the medium sizes are for.
Yes. All three are built on a reinforced base panel with structured sides, so they stay upright on a table or a floor empty or full. A soft small bag is the one that collapses and loses everything at the bottom.
Because the hours barely change. Less leather, the same hand stitching, the same four passes of edge burnishing, the same solid brass, and proportionally more edge for the area. The materials are the cheap part of a handmade bag.
The Juno in black. It has a full brass zip so nothing tips out, it is structured enough to stand on a table, and at 26cm it reads as an evening bag rather than a shrunken work bag.
The Wren at 21cm of drop and the Ellis at 22cm will sit on a shoulder over a shirt or a light jacket. The Juno at 18cm is designed to be carried in the hand or the crook of the arm.
They are the ones we most often ship as a first bag or a gift, partly on price and partly because a small bag is handled more, so the leather softens and darkens faster and you see it change within months rather than years.
Yes, a cotton one, and it is worth using. Store the bag upright with the dust bag loosely inside it rather than hanging it from the handles, which is what pulls handle roots out of shape over a few years.
If something is wrong, the reply comes from the workshop rather than a call centre, and the repair is done by the person who made the bag.
Talk to usNothing we sell is bonded, corrected or finished with a plastic film, which is what makes a cheap bag flake at the corners.
Full grain explainedSeams that carry weight are saddle stitched by hand, so a cut thread stays put rather than running down the seam.
Inside the workshopThree letters in gold foil, silver foil or a blind press, set by hand before the bag is boxed, on every bag we make.
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