Recycle: Hand bags from Woven Sacks

Industrial woven sacks that are typically used to package fertilizer and grain are transformed into chic bags.

Spotted October 2008 at Moyo Lake Gift shop in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Recycled bags - Eco Chic

Unrelated PS: Architecture enthusiasts, particularly those interested in Nairobi, help us out with this mystery on flickr? We used to play a game we called ‘Wapi?’ which means ‘where’ in Swahili. I think we started this game in 2006, we’d post a picture on our blogs and have everyone guess as to the location. Steve had the most difficult ones, JKE and Mental too. Might be time to revive the game? *off to go look for an image to stump y’all with* :-)

Post to Twitter

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 4:50 pm and is filed under Africa, Environment, Fun, Kenya. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

6 Responses to “Recycle: Hand bags from Woven Sacks”

KenTunes March 25th, 2009 at 6:28 pm

The picture in question is Kassanga’s music shop at Gill House on the Tom Mboya street side.

Shiko-Msa March 26th, 2009 at 4:58 am

Just a thought. Supposing a giant like Nakumat took to recycling the same and using then to package their stuff? A new industry would be born here.

Nairobian Perspective March 27th, 2009 at 4:43 am

your blog is looking cool asever, those bags are ideal i hope somebody (with the gift of art) locally picks up the idea!

nellabella July 15th, 2009 at 8:08 pm

These bags are eco-friendly, we really need to stop using plastic bags to protect our mother Earth.

Victoria July 24th, 2009 at 9:21 am

I love these bags, they look really nice and have a lovely ‘waste not want not’ feel about them.

I have a Facebook group on handbags and would love to write an article about them.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/Handbags/100318856667?ref=nf

Do you have any more information on the shop?

Victoria

Jimmy Bryant July 26th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

Wow, thanks for sharing, I have learned so much here on your site, thought I’d let you know your efforts are appreciated.

Leave a Reply

Twitter links powered by Tweet This v1.6.1, a WordPress plugin for Twitter.