Archival Field Trip - San Francisco

 

  

 

 

  

 

  Box Dog Bikes

Karikter

 

 

  

 

 AB Fits

Lomography Store

Rancourt mocs at Taylor Stitch

 

 

  Random encounters with Rivendell

 

 

 

  

 Aggregate Supply 

Unionmade

Sound level monitoring

 Mister Self Edge

 Harris tweed castoff

Sushi Boat

Archival Summer

While we love wool and waxed canvas, here are some Archival items in our favorite summer weight fabrics, canvas duck and cotton, for warm weather wear.

The Hill-Side block bullseye scarf
Archival stripe tee
Plain musette in canvas duck
Archival web belt
Canvas Duck Rucksack

From the archives - Bottle Green Rucksack

While we cannot shop from the past we can still recycle materials from our fabric vendor's archives. For a limited time, we're featuring Archival Rucksacks made from deadstock bottle green canvas duck. The fabric, over twenty five years old, comes to us from an orphan warehouse stash that was lost to time. It is the same sturdy, high quality duck we source for our stock canvas rucksacks but the material surface of the fabric (like a nice barrel aged spirit) has been slightly mellowed, and transformed, by time.

Archival Rucksack in deadstock bottle green canvas duck

We’re happy to note that due to the popular response to our Archival Rucksacks in bottle green, the fabric manufacturer will be making this shade of green again in their commercial grade fabric. Here's your chance to secure a bag made from the original source material.

Archival Rucksacks in Tokyo

Love this snap of canvas duck Archival Rucksacks on display at a new Tokyo stockist, Green Angle. I'm starting to envy the travel destinations of our Springfield, Oregon made baggage.

Archival Visit - HUGE magazine

Last weekend we were honored with a visit from the Japanese "hi-style" magazine HUGE. HUGE is doing a feature on Oregon manufacturers and we were pleased that they included Archival in their itinerary. On Sunday, the HUGE team visited our sewing contractor's facility in Springfield to get some live action snaps of Terry at work.

It was a pleasure to watch Nick, a professional photographer, at work. Here he is taking light meter readings before shooting Terry. I love that Nick shoots on film.

Nick and Takuhito, delightful gents

Documenting how Terry sets washers and snaps.

Checking Polaroids of me. I'm posing in front of a Quonset hut.

I endorse Takuhito's twin pack approach to rucksack portage. Nicole, AC Production Manager, dodging the camera in background.

Archival heirlooms: Mamiya 645, Domke canvas camera bag and Kodak 120 Portra film.

Nick's back up rig - an Olympus Stylus point and shoot. I like his Makr carry pouch.

Prepping Rucksacks for their close ups

Archival Restock: Canvas Duck Rucksacks

We just restocked the AC web shop with canvas duck rucksacks. In addition to red, we're adding dark brown and orange to our colorways. These rucksacks are made of a sturdy 18 ounce #8 cotton duck. Aside from the material change, they are identical to our classic rucksack and are made in our Springfield, Oregon workshop.

For those who have been waiting for us to resupply our inventory of AC waxed twill rucksacks, we now have bags in navy, gray, olive and our ever popular ranger tan.