Multicolored geometric shapes nylon tote bag

Tiles, rosettes and a deep navy ground

The print behaves like a patchwork of ceramic tiles. The diamonds are set point to point and packed tight, and no two neighbours carry the same drawing: here a fine-petalled rosette on cream, there a denser medallion, elsewhere a scatter of dots or a single small heart. The deep navy grounds push the cobalt and the sky blue forward, while coral and orange come back at regular intervals and stop the whole thing settling into one shade of blue.

Beige fringing and round navy handles

The edge finishing is what you notice first. The beige fringing runs the full width of the opening and down both sides, left unbrushed so the strands sit at every angle. The two round navy handles rise from fabric tabs in the same blue and give the bag its only plain surface, which comes as a relief after all that pattern.

A zipped nylon tote bag of 54X35X18 cm

54X35X18 cm on the label, and the 18 cm of depth is the figure that changes how the bag carries. It shows from the side, where the gusset opens out and the print continues round the corner. A zip along the opening closes the bag, which sets this model apart from the open shoppers on the same shelf, since nothing shifts once the bag is put down. The same measurements turn up on the shape filed under weekend bags.

Keeping the rest of the outfit quiet

A print that covers every last centimetre asks for very little around it. Plain colours work best beside it: denim, white and cream already appear somewhere in the tiles, and a navy dress picks up the handles without any effort. Because so much of the ground is dark, the tote holds up against a wool coat as easily as against linen. To see how printed nylon compares with the woven materials, the rest of the tote range, material by material, is worth a look first.