thick lune bag / passata

The Thick Lune began with the crescent from my Crescent Moon collection, my favourite shape at the time. I carried it through to Pisces, a collection I made during a really low time, when my moods were like water, flowing every which way. I like the woo woo of astrology, and I often find comfort in its guidance. The moon pulls the tides, and I think it pulls on the tides of our emotions too, so the moon belonged in a collection about water. It's thick because the silhouette is deep, like a wedge, and this half moon fits more than meets the eye. It's also more complex to make than it looks. It's one of the few designs I still finish with twenty minutes of hand-stitching, because the sewing machine can't reach. A nod to when I hand-stitched every design in the Crescent Moon collection.

Passata is the deep red of sugo cooking on the stove. It's named for the tomatoes, but the colour is what they become once they've cooked down ~ darker than the passata in the jar.

~ Australian bovine leather made in Queensland, Australia

~ Each hide is natural, so every batch is a little different, with the grain and texture of the animal it came from

~ Available in eight colours: Black Rock, Red Rock, Peppercorn, and our custom colours Mist Blue, Wheat, Matcha, Passata and Almond

~ Gold-tone hardware and zips

~ One main zip compartment and two flat exterior pockets

~ For your plus sized phone, keys, eyewear, passport, a few makeup items and a small wallet

~ Adjustable, removable crossbody or shoulder strap, from 68cm to 120cm

~ Made in small batches, so some pieces are ready to ship and others are made to order

~ Made by hand in our Brunswick atelier and with specialist makers in Reservoir and Ballarat

~ Comes packaged with love in an organic cotton dust bag made by the women at SisterWorks

Size: W26cm x H13cm x D10cm