Handbags
Ali Lamu "SUNSHINE" Sail Bag
- Item Number
- 111
Item Description
Love, love and more love. That’s the Ali Lamu creed. Fill your heart with as much love and SUNSHINE as you can and take it everywhere in this roomy one-of-a-kind bag that began its life sailing the open seas.
Item Special Note
The story behind the sail bags...
One day in 2008 a Kenyan fisherman walked into the workshop of a Swiss artist who was mending a broken heart and asked for a job. The artist didn’t have a job for the fisherman, but she did have a need for some old tanga, which means Indian dow (fishing boat) sail in Kiswahili. She regarded tanga as a piece of art created by the years spent exposed to the wind, rain, sun and salt of the Indian Ocean, and she wanted to use it as a canvas. The fisherman knew where old tanga was plentiful and returned with some a few days later. The color was magnificent, sepia tinged and sun baked, impossible to reproduce even if one tried hard…time and weather were the masters of this material.
The artist and the fisherman began to paint, at first a broken heart, then whatever the mood of the moment inspired. They painted poems, people, animals and stars, even the occasional squid. They wanted to share their message of “love, love and more love” with people all over the world so the artist and the fisherman turned the tangas into handbags, each crafted and painted by hand then set out underneath the Kenyan sun to dry.
The Ali Lamu bag you buy is truly one of a kind. Carry it with all the love you can.
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