This collapsible tote is the perfect lightweight carryall to live in your handbag or jacket pocket. It is ideal for a spontaneous shopping jaunt through your local green market, favorite boutique or record store. This is a MAN-FRIENDLY item (see the indigo chocolate) and fits in the pocket of an overcoat. Don’t be shy, boys!

natural dye | BAGNIKC0001- PKR, BAGNIKC0001-INC
cotton | plain weave, tapestry
zipped 15.5L x 13.5W x 2.5D cm | expanded 45W x 36H x 13.5D cm
6”L x 5.3”W x 1”D folded | 17.75”W x 14.25”H x 5.3”D expanded
48cm handles, 24cm drop | 19” handles, 9.5” drop finished with repurposed leather zip pouch that doubles as bag bottom removable pompoms
IN STOCK | ships in 1-7 business days $135

Text "a22parisshopperpink" to 767825 (Portal) to buy

This collapsible tote is the perfect lightweight carryall to live in your handbag or jacket pocket. It is ideal for a spontaneous shopping jaunt through your local green market, favorite boutique or record store. This is a MAN-FRIENDLY item (see the indigo chocolate) and fits in the pocket of an overcoat. Don’t be shy, boys!

natural dye | BAGNIKC0001- PKR, BAGNIKC0001-INC
cotton | plain weave, tapestry
zipped 15.5L x 13.5W x 2.5D cm | expanded 45W x 36H x 13.5D cm
6”L x 5.3”W x 1”D folded | 17.75”W x 14.25”H x 5.3”D expanded
48cm handles, 24cm drop | 19” handles, 9.5” drop finished with repurposed leather zip pouch that doubles as bag bottom removable pompoms
IN STOCK | ships in 1-7 business days $135

Text "a22parisshopperindigo" to 767825 (Portal) to buy

The Akha Villager Project helps rural craftswomen generate income in order to supplement their subsistence farming activities.

JEWAKAN0001
red green,
33”
$30

Text "a22singlestrandnecklacerg" (red green) to 767825 (Portal) to buy

The Akha Villager Project helps rural craftswomen generate income in order to supplement their subsistence farming activities.

JEWAKAN0001
blue pink,
33”
$30

Text "a22singlestrandnecklacebp" (blue pink) to 767825 (Portal) to buy

The Akha Villager Project helps rural craftswomen generate income in order to supplement their subsistence farming activities.

JEWAKAN0001
blue pink,
33”
$30

Text "a22fivestrandnecklacebp" (blue pink) to 767825 (Portal) to buy

The Akha Villager Project helps rural craftswomen generate income in order to supplement their subsistence farming activities.

JEWAKAN0001
red green,
33”
$30

Text "a22fivestrandnecklacerg" (red green) to 767825 (Portal) to buy

A bracelet. A story about war and peace. Destruction and reconstruction. History. Instead of words, this story is composed of fragments of bombs, melted and shaped into a circle, a bracelet, a reminder.

1973. Laos. A major theatre of war during the Vietnam conflict, the US has ceased its 9-year long aerial bombardment known as the Secret War intended to halt the spread of communism across Indochina. Communist Lao leaders and 23,000 civilians slowly emerge from homes carved in the karst cave complexes of Houaphan Province.

1975. War is over. Saigon has fallen to the North Vietnamese Army. Victory within near reach, the Pathet Lao advance westward. A lone man from Houaphan also moves west. He journeys through the emerald-mountain passes toward the bomb-cratered Plain of Jars.

Naphia Village, Laos. The man makes a temporary home. He collects scrap metal from farmland and forest scarred by war debris from the 250-260 million bombs that were dropped. He crafts spoons from aluminum melted in an earthen kiln and cast in hand-sculpted molds of wood and ash.

Villagers watch, listen, learn. Mr. Boua is the first to pursue the trade. He begins to craft and sell spoons. He teaches the technique to his son. Today, 10 resourceful and enterprising Naphia families supplement subsistence farming activities with income from repurposing war scrap metal. Through resourcefulness and problem solving, they take a constructive approach to a legacy of destruction.

2009. Peace Bomb bracelets. Developed through the collaboration of Naphia spoon makers, the Rural Income through Sustainable Energy Project of the NGO, Helvetas, and ARTICLE 22, a social enterprise that supports sustainable development through design thinking. Each bracelet purchase not only brings much needed income directly into these farming households, but also contributes to the development of a community fund that provides resources for village infrastructure projects and small business micro-loans to individuals.

Now. Buy the bombs back.

Text "a22peacebomb" to 767825 (Portal) to buy

A bracelet. A story about war and peace. Destruction and reconstruction. History. Instead of words, this story is composed of fragments of bombs, melted and shaped into a circle, a bracelet, a reminder.

1973. Laos. A major theatre of war during the Vietnam conflict, the US has ceased its 9-year long aerial bombardment known as the Secret War intended to halt the spread of communism across Indochina. Communist Lao leaders and 23,000 civilians slowly emerge from homes carved in the karst cave complexes of Houaphan Province.

1975. War is over. Saigon has fallen to the North Vietnamese Army. Victory within near reach, the Pathet Lao advance westward. A lone man from Houaphan also moves west. He journeys through the emerald-mountain passes toward the bomb-cratered Plain of Jars.

Naphia Village, Laos. The man makes a temporary home. He collects scrap metal from farmland and forest scarred by war debris from the 250-260 million bombs that were dropped. He crafts spoons from aluminum melted in an earthen kiln and cast in hand-sculpted molds of wood and ash.

Villagers watch, listen, learn. Mr. Boua is the first to pursue the trade. He begins to craft and sell spoons. He teaches the technique to his son. Today, 10 resourceful and enterprising Naphia families supplement subsistence farming activities with income from repurposing war scrap metal. Through resourcefulness and problem solving, they take a constructive approach to a legacy of destruction.

2009. Peace Bomb bracelets. Developed through the collaboration of Naphia spoon makers, the Rural Income through Sustainable Energy Project of the NGO, Helvetas, and ARTICLE 22, a social enterprise that supports sustainable development through design thinking. Each bracelet purchase not only brings much needed income directly into these farming households, but also contributes to the development of a community fund that provides resources for village infrastructure projects and small business micro-loans to individuals.

Now. Buy the bombs back.

Text "a22peacebomb3" to 767825 (Portal) to buy