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Sometimes a bag is just about the material. What is the best way I can feature this lovely piece of leather or fabric? This weekend at Urban Market I will have a wide range of totes made of some of the most amazing materials collected recently. My favorite is the loomed leather. This material was hand-loomed in Tuscany on looms that my dealer says were based on designs of Leonardo DaVinci. Thus I call them the DaVinci Totes. Available in either Strawman or Monochrome. Contrasted with either Waxy French Calf or Stash Signature Buffalo.  I've also paired a customer favorite..

Urban Market is this weekend in Houston. We have managed to expand our bridge booth to a full 20x20. Come see us and ask us how we repurposed a 70 year old bridge into our sales structure.  I have also made a few new things. Look for my new repurposed canvas guitar|camera strap known as the Stash Pro. I will also be taking orders off a bag I made recently for myself. I call it the Overnighter. We have expanded and upgraded our leather camera straps to a new longer length with a more minimalist design available in both standard..

  [shared with us this morning by friend and colleague J Raphael Klein via beemo]

Artist, Edgar Medina has been an ardent and patient supporter. He excavated a sample bag that I had featured on Facebook from way back and set his mind on convincing me to finish it out for him. He succeeded and I am grateful. When I am designing a pattern for a bag and taking through the process, I evaluate in practical terms if this is a bag I really want to make again. I had convinced myself that this was one that I did not.  However, Edgar's encouragement gave me pause to reconsider and I became quite attached to the messenger..

I build bags. So why are you seeing these large metal objects on my shopsite blog? Stash builds what needs to be built. Our legacy is filled with generations building mattresses, furniture, bridges, bags, and even software. We appreciate what goes into the process of design and build. We identify with veracious artisans. And it is part of our mission to support authentically hand-crafted goods whenever given the chance.  For the last Urban Market, when we were building our bridge booth, we realized we needed just a little something. So we imported the work of California metal artist - Maurice..

  Stash made "The Buzz" section in Houston Modern Luxury ~ Men's Edition (p. 44). Photo by Gary Griffin Photographs. Come by, say hello, and see what is new to hit Stash at Urban Market ~ May 19-20. 

We are almost ready to welcome the Stash Tall Boy. Made of Waxy French Calf. This bag wears well cross-body and has a long, lean silhouette. I've been working on this Stash Tall Boy for several months. Finally came together this week. You are looking at the road-tester.  Bags begin as a seed, a sketch, a conversation, a basic idea. Inspired by a material or usually in my case a need of some sort. If I were to sit down and account for every step in the process, it would take a while. The highlights include material acquisition, pattern-making, pattern-testing, and..

We are officially in Space. You can find a selection of our OOAK handmade clutches at Space | Montrose near the intersection of Dunlavy and Westheimer. Space is a groovy little gallery shop owned by Leila and Carlos. They are dedicated to handmade, artisan product and seek to promote locally made work as often as possible.  My daughter and I came across the shop one day before Christmas and each left with an armful of gifts for friends.  The clutches featured here right now are the last of their kind. The Pear and Turquoise were the last of the hide..

  Here are a few parting shots of the last leather Market in stock as it heads out the door and off to a customer for new adventures. There will be more markets. I have several on the board for orders and I'll be making new stock for the upcoming Urban Market (May 19 - 20).  This is my go-to carry-on travel bag. You can follow some of our adventures together on my Stash Facebook and Twitter feeds as I usually share select photos from my work and travel there. If you are hoping for one of these Markets, the best thing..

The weather in Texas has been unseasonably warm until the two days that we were to be standing out selling Stash. At the end of the day, the entire Stash team looks as if we've been out skiing all weekend. But the chill did not deter a good crowd at the new location on Knight Road for Urban Market Houston. The Stash family would like to thank each and every one who came out. We'll be off this week. Back in the factory studio week after, so look for notes to arrive for those of you who placed orders. And I'll..

New Year's Eve we lit a fire and watched the sparks rise. We worried because Urban Market had been set for February 11/12 and Christmas had left us with very low inventory. We were excited about a new venue but we had no structure to frame our space. We were already scheduled to be out of town at the end of the month, so that left us with one week to brainstorm and two weeks to build. For those of you familiar with Urban Market, you know that it is a local antique market. Many of the vendors are your..

   Right now, only one person in the world has this style of bag. She calls it Grand Sac. I call this colorway, Ginger. I've been carrying the concept around in my head for a while working and re-working the design. Then last year I made a black hide version for my friend Gail Chovan of Blackmail in Austin. She is one of my like-minded artist friends for whom I am deeply grateful. She keeps me sane in this business of art and commerce. This style settles the dilemma for people who want both a shoulder bag and a messenger..

Bison. One of my favorite materials. For those of you who have expressed interested in the Red Bison, here are a few shots of a recent special order bag. The material varies a great deal between dye lots but I try to choose only that which most closely resembles this patina.

  My family has officially decided that every time I hunch over the click clack of the old typewriter, I'm generating another Stashism. Perfect.

  “The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It’s so easy to make it complex. The solution for a lot of the world’s problems may be to turn around and take a forward step.”— Yvon Chouinard There was some philosophical discussion over the winter break about my pattern of leaving the city to work. Something obvious and necessary to what I do. But words had never been put to the idea of it. I only knew that when I drove out through the open prairies and rice fields that separated my city home from my work..

Occasionally I type up random thoughts. This one is my mantra moving through 2012.