Postalco's Flat Pack BW Large Black is a lightweight and minimal bag with a clean, smooth shape and easy access to all your belongings. Its main cushioned compartment fits up to a 16-inch laptop and A4 documents, and there's an additional compartment that fits a 500ml bottle. Opening the bag is effortlessly smooth with a handle that connects to the zipper. An 'attic' pocket hidden under the flap means your glasses, charger and other essentials don't get squished. Additionally, a small zipper pocket featured on the backside gives quick access to your wallet, phone or keys.

This Flat Pack feels good even when it's full. Its tall shape centers nicely on your back, with the help of unique crossed straps to anchor it for a perfect fit. The backside features a fabric panel for improved breathability and comfort.

Inspired by a flat bread, it is a result of accumulated wisdom, containing a nutritional punch that is absolutely delicious — all within a deceptively simple-looking, flat shape. There's something sophisticated and even futuristic about flat bread. Technology is always working to be thinner and flatter. Flat means easy, effortless and also essential.

Bamboo Wax Cloth

Postalco's original Bamboo Wax Cloth is made for strength and water resistance. Ecological bamboo fibers are visible giving this material its unique touch and slightly shimmering surface. Postalco developed this fabric in Japan for their Postalco bags. Lightweight and weather proof but made with natural fibers. The wax treatment means you don't need to worry about a little rain.

Bamboo is actually a kind of grass, but with superpowers. One of the fastest growing plants on Earth, it defying gravity with its impressive tubes. It absorbs carbon quickly as it grows. But bamboo is hard. That's what makes it strong. And also difficult to weave into fabric. Bamboo fibers are twisted with cotton to create this thin but durable cloth. Wax is then soaked deep inside the material for water resistance. This is no ordinary material so weaving machines capable of dealing with this tough yarn are needed. That is why all this happens under the expert guidance of a fabric mill in Okayama, an area of Japan with over 300 years of fabric weaving history. Exceptionally tightly woven for durability and water resistance so there's no need to worry about the weather. Softens with use to improve over time.

Vegetable-tanned cowhide

To increase strength, the leather was shrunken. This shrinking process makes the leather fibers more dense and imparts a soft flexibility. The signature of shrunken leather is the irregular ‘pebbly’ textured grain that varies from skin to skin.

Postalco leather is colored using aniline dyes. Aniline dyes soak into the leather, preserving the natural variation in grain and texture. The more aniline dyed leather is used, the better the surface patina gets over time. Making vegetable-tanned and aniline dyed leather is more expensive and time consuming, but produces beautiful leathers.

Details

Measures 30 x 40 x 20 cm
Fits 16-inch laptop
Made from Postalco's Bamboo Wax Cloth and vegetable-tanned cowhide
Made in Japan

Care for your Postalco bag
* Clean by spot dry clean or wipe with a damp soft cloth
* Do not machine wash or place in the dryer
* Leather and fabric webbing may fade with use and colors may bleed when wet
* If your bag gets wet gently blot it with a soft dry cloth
* Only use water repellent spray made to be used with both leather and fabric
* If the leather feels dry, use a mild creme to replenish moisture (be sure to use only clear cream as any color will rub off)

Misc-store Amsterdam x Postalco

At Misc-store, we absolutely adore the Postalco products for their incredible quality and and their general approach to product design. We as humans are restricted to what we can do on our own, and have developed a great variety of tools to help us through life. If the objects we use in our everyday life are well made, we will use them longer and with greater pleasure. This idea - the well-aging tool - is at the centre of Postalco's design approach.

Misc-store has carried the Postalco line since 2011. During this period, we have seen many versions and items come and go, and have grown to love the brand and its products more and more with each improvement.

We are not the only fans: our customers share this growing appreciation, and we have had the pleasure of seeing tons of different uses for Postalco's items. Especially their Snap Pad has been sold as a wedding guest book, a portfolio, a lamp color filter holder for a film director - its purpose is as varied as our customer base.

Misc-store Amsterdam x Postalco will be a collaboration to continue into the future: we are excited to see what more innovation they will bring, and what other ways people will come up with to use their products.

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