Esme Tote Bag

Green enough to be a garden, quiet enough to take to work.

Four things before you look at the picture

• Both faces are printed, and they are not the same picture: one holds the jewelled dragonfly, the other lets two line-drawn ones go
• Handles of black woven webbing: matte, unfussy, so nothing on the bag competes with the emerald
• A zip closes the opening: one black tab up at a corner draws it shut
• The green is not one green: a mandala is drawn through it in gold line and a deeper shade, and it only surfaces when the bag catches the light

Now the picture. A dragonfly opens its wings across a gold medallion: filigree wings flooded with turquoise, two round amber eyes, and a segmented gold body set along its length with turquoise stones. The medallion turns behind it in rings of dots, dashes and small teardrop petals, and a line of gold beads runs from above its head down past the end of its tail, so the whole thing sits on the green like a brooch someone pinned there.

The other face lets them go. Two dragonflies in nothing but gold outline, wings shaded a soft green, drift across the panel, and beneath them a spray of wild grass leans over: narrow leaves tipped in turquoise, slim buds standing on stems of their own, gold beads floating loose in the space around it.

Nobody makes one in advance

Your Esme is printed after your order reaches us, not before, and that is the reason this design cannot quietly disappear from the shop. One bag, one owner, and nobody carried it first.