Friendship Love & Truth Vintage Heart Print Linen Tote Bag

For the Earth Goddess — the one who has opinions about which bag goes to the market.

The print is an 1880s hand-colored engraving pulled out of a library archive, and every element on it means something. The beehive stands for cooperation. The bundle of sticks is teamwork, the kind that cannot be snapped. The flowers are eternal love and the open eye is truth. Victorians packed their symbols in tightly, and the result reads today as a charm against the wrong sort of company — which is a good thing to carry your groceries in.

The linen and bamboo blend is the same cloth used for the artist pants, so the bag is soft and slouchy rather than structured, with wide straps that stay put on a shoulder. Fold it down, snap it shut, and it lives in another bag until the day it is needed. Market runs, the beach, the trip where you inevitably acquire more than you packed for.

55 percent linen, 45 percent bamboo viscose · Width 47 cm · Height 42 cm without strap · Strap drop 26 cm · Interior pocket 17 cm x 17 cm · Snap closure · Wide shoulder straps