about
Strawfoot Handmade was born out of a desire to create unique and durable products from the highest quality American-made materials available. I began sewing bags after receiving a sewing machine as a wedding present and realizing how useful sewing could be to stimulate my creativity.
Growing up on a farm, I was engrained with a hands-on approach to life and it wasn’t until after finishing college and traveling in Australia that I learned to use a sewing machine. When I purchased an old industrial machine I was able to incorporate heavy fabrics that spurred my ideas and design capabilities. Inspired by styles and designs from the early 1900‘s, waxed canvas is the primary fabric used, as well as vegetable-tanned natural leather and solid copper rivets. This creates not only an extremely strong bag, but one that looks slightly weathered and that will age beautifully with time. I work in a small workshop in Santa Cruz, Ca with a vintage sewing machine and hand tools. All bags are designed and sewn by myself on a part-time basis, which means that production is rather limited. Strawfoot Handmade values American-handmade products that will last a lifetime and serve as a functional part of daily use. Thank you for looking.
–Garrett Kautz
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Bags can be purchased at the following locations:
Unionmade Online & Unionmade San Francisco
Stripe Design Group (Downtown Santa Cruz)
Beam & Anchor (Portland, OR)
Centennial Trading Co. (Winston Salem, NC)
Levi’s Stores: Meatpacking New York, Newbury Boston, and Malibu (very limited stock)
