Retread Purse

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Retread Purse: Made from discarded truck inner tubes, each purse bears mysterious and beautiful graphic markings and textures from its traveled past. Completely handmade.

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  1. Hi Swissmiss

    I love those. There is a project in St. Gallen ( that’s a city in the eastern part of Switzerland, for all non-swiss ) for unemployed woman, where they do that kind of bags as well:
    http://kleika.ch/index.php?pageID=89

    I love mine :)

    adi

  2. In a similar vein, the howies/Velo-re mountainbike-tyre belts look ace!

    Semi-slick tread:
    http://www.howies.co.uk/product.php/493/18/

    Slick tread:
    http://www.howies.co.uk/product.php/492/18/

    Some better shots on the first page of this PDF:
    http://www.howies.co.uk/images/cms/downloads/spring2007/56-112.pdf

  3. Beautiful! I would love to have one! Is that possible? Where Can I buy it? I am from Brazil. Thanks and congrats for your site.

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