Swiss brand Freitag lab. offers hand made bags made from original recycled materials – used truck tarps, used car seat belts, used air bags and used bicycle inner tubes.

It was 1993 when Markus and Daniel Freitag, both brothers and graphic designers, were in need of a bag. Zurich locals ride bikes. And they get rained on a lot. So the Freitag Bros. wanted a functional, tough, and water-resistant bag to carry their designs. Inspired by the colorful traffic on the highway extension in front of their apartment, they sewed together a messenger bag from an old truck tarp, took seat belts for straps and used a spare bicycle inner tube to keep the edges from fraying.

This is the classic Freitag Messenger bag

Each one of the bag is made of a different fragment of truck tarp what makes the product unique. Ordering anything from the Freitag on-line Shop, you´ll recive exactly what you see on the pictures.

German brand called Feuerwear producing bags and belts made of  fire snakes is based on the similar idea. 

Fritag bags available on the oficial site:

http://www.freitag.ch/shop/FREITAG/page/frontpage/detail.jsf

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