Pink & Red Striped Recycled Woven Market Shopper

Some bags carry groceries. This one used to carry cement.

British Colour Standard takes discarded cement sacks and gives them a considerably more colorful second act, transforming them into this graphic woven shopper in Neyron, Guardsman, and Pearl. It's roomy, sturdy, and built for the peculiar amount of stuff a person accumulates during an otherwise straightforward day: farmers market produce, groceries, beach towels, books, flowers, or the three things you bought while supposedly just returning something. Bold stripes make it good-looking enough to become your everyday bag, while a gusseted base, webbing handles, and magnetic closure make sure it can actually handle the job. Proof that the most sustainable object is occasionally the one that's already had an entire career.

The Details

• Woven market shopper in Neyron, Guardsman, and Pearl
• Made from recycled cement sacks collected from the construction industry
• Sacks are washed, shredded, spun into thread, re-dyed, and woven into new material
• Generous everyday size for markets, groceries, beach trips, and errands
• 40 × 44 cm / approx. 15.7" × 17.3"
• 9 cm / 3.5" gusset for added capacity
• Sturdy webbing handles
• Lined webbing along the top edge
• Magnetic closure
• Embroidered British Colour Standard label
• Woven in India
• Wipe clean

About the Brand:  Britsh Colour Standard

British Colour Standard has built an entire design world around the radical proposition that everyday objects don't have to be visually apologetic. It started when founders Jackie Piper and Victoria Whitbread discovered an original 1930s British Colour Standard dictionary tucked away in an Oxfam shop and decided its wonderfully specific archive of historic colors deserved another life. Today, those rediscovered shades appear across candles, tableware, textiles, and objects for the home, with an emphasis on thoughtful materials, Fair Trade craftsmanship, and responsible production. It's part design archive, part color obsession, and a pretty convincing argument that progress occasionally looks like finding something old and realizing we shouldn't have forgotten it.