Dark Diamonds Large Tote Bag

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$ 39.00

Every other bag here shouts. This one waits.

Dark Diamonds reads almost black from across a room — a deep, dense field of nothing much. Then you get close and the whole thing turns on. Thousands of tiny facets in blue, jade, rust and red, all locked into a symmetry that goes on forever in every direction.

Bert Ernie says he found them out in the desert. Bert Ernie has never been near a mine in his life.

16×20″. Holds 17.8 litres. The quiet one, until you look properly.

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📦  Made to order — 1 week in the US, 2 weeks worldwide

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✂️  Cut and sewn to order. Never printed on a blank.

SKU: ltb_dark_diamonds

Description

Bert Ernie will tell you he found these out past the black stump.

The story goes like this. Months in the scrub. A ute with no aircon. Ninety-odd degrees of nothing in every direction, and then a seam of stones that looked like coal until the sun hit them side-on and every one of them lit up — green, blue, rust, a red like a tail-light. Dark diamonds. He named them on the spot, allegedly, standing in the dust like a man in a documentary.

None of this happened. What happened is that Bert opened Adobe Illustrator, years ago now, and started pushing shapes around to see what they’d do. No painting underneath this one, no scanned splatter, no paint at all. Just a man, a vector program, and far too much time. He built a facet, then a thousand more, then mirrored the whole field until it locked into a symmetry that runs off the edges and keeps going in your head. Then he sat back and looked at it and thought: diamonds. Dark ones. And to be fair to him, he wasn’t wrong.

Because here’s what makes this one different from everything else in the shop. Every other wild peach design is loud at fifty paces — that’s the entire point of the place. Dark Diamonds isn’t. From across a room it reads as a deep, near-black textile, the sort of thing a very serious person might carry to a very serious meeting. Then someone walks past you and their head turns, because up close it’s a jewellery box that’s been dropped down a mineshaft. Blues, jades, oxide reds, a hundred little glints catching the light at once. It’s the only bag here that lets you sneak up on people.

Dark Diamonds print file — the full wraparound design for the large tote bag, showing the mirrored faceted field
The print file, front to back in one piece. Mirrored so the facets lock together and repeat off every edge. The logo sits upside down at the bottom because that end folds over to become the back of the bag — a detail nobody notices and Bert refuses to stop pointing out.

Made properly, too — Printful’s ethical print-on-demand, printed to order. Nothing sits in a warehouse. Yours gets made because you asked for it.

  • 100% polyester
  • Fabric weight (may vary by 5%): 6.64 oz/yd² (225 g/m²)
  • Maximum weight limit: 22lbs (10kg)
  • Capacity: 4.4 US gal (17.8l)
  • Large inside pocket with super snazzy design
  • Comfortable cotton webbing handles
  • Vibrant colors that won’t fade
  • Printed, cut, and hand-sewn by our expert in-house team

Take it to the shops, the studio, the office, the airport. It’ll carry 22lbs of anything you like and it’ll go with literally everything you own, which is not a sentence we get to write very often around here. Nobody else on the planet makes art like this. Nobody in the queue is holding this bag. They’ll just take a second longer to work out why they can’t stop looking at it.

Too loud to ignore.

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Dimensions
Weight 2 kg
Dimensions 8 × 8 × 2 in

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