By Michael Nolledo
Don’t mistake Shelter’s Prickly Mountain Bag for just another backpack – since it’s actually a shoulder bag (yeah, I totally thought it was a rucksack when I first saw it too). Fashioned from waxed canvas, veg-tanned leather and brass hardware, the bags – which are named in honor of a counterculture architect-hippie community in Vermont – are just as well suited for foraged foodstuffs as they a store-bought sandwich and MacBook. Read More
The Rolston Bag from North Carolina’s Shelter is made from 14.5 oz. American grown and woven denim and hand cut and oiled domestically-sourced leather. Finished with a strip of deadstock Ikat fabric, the bag offers all the rugged dependability you’d expect from a rucksack, but with a nice bit of patterned-pop thrown in for good measure. Details include one main pocket, seven small-goods pockets (6 on the outside, one on the inside), an interior key ring, contrast liner, and rivets at key stress-points (I wasn’t kidding about rugged dependability). Read More
