Tom Bonamici has worked in bag and clothing design for 15 years, with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, small business, and domestic manufacturing. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Oregon in Portland, teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in Product Design and Sports Product Design. His research explores lightweight materials and assemblies for backcountry gear and apparel, with particular interest in the advantages of lightweight equipment and clothing for human performance and environmental responsibility. Tom also has experience in woodworking, timber frame building, and outdoor education.

Handy Bag:
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Handy Bag is a Lesli Larson and Tom Bonamici joint. We started the now-defunct Archival Clothing, and wanted to make a few bags again. Releases will be sporadic, so sign up for email updates on our Contact page if you want to know when they happen. This is very much a side hustle for us both, and will remain a lo-fi endeavor for quite a while. Check out the SHOP page on this site to see if anything’s in stock.

Lesli’s still blogging at the old Archival Blog.

Handy Bags are all sewn in Oregon with sturdy cotton canvas, dead stock US military webbing, and good quality hardware that’s not fussy. We hope to produce nice bags that serve you willingly for a good long time.

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SHIPPING:
Shipping is free to the lower 48 states. We are so, so sorry but we can’t do international shipping right now - our systems aren’t set up enough, and the customs forms and wild expense makes it too problematic. We’ll get there.

RETURNS:
If the bag ain’t right, please send it back to the return address on the package within 30 days. We will issue you a refund for the purchase price. We aren’t Amazon, so we can’t pay your return shipping. The bag must be in unused, like-new, clean as a whistle condition or we cannot issue your refund.