Waxed Canvas Daypack

Details

A plain top-loading daypack in 14 oz waxed cotton duck. Fourteen ounces is the weight of a square yard of the cloth, and it is the point where canvas stops being shirt weight and starts holding its own shape. The wax is a paraffin and beeswax blend impregnated through the weave, so water beads and runs off rather than soaking in. The base corners and the strap anchors are 2 mm full-grain leather, riveted through with solid copper rivets and bar-tacked underneath, because a bag fails at its corners and its anchors long before the cloth wears out. Waxed canvas creases where you fold it and lightens along those creases within weeks. Rub the crease with your palm and the wax moves back. It never looks new again and it is not supposed to.

• 14 oz waxed cotton duck, paraffin and beeswax impregnated
• 2 mm full-grain leather base corners and strap anchors
• YKK number 8 coil zips on every opening
• Copper rivets and bar tacks at all eight load points
• Padded shoulder straps, 38 mm webbing, adjustable sternum strap
• Reproofing wax bar and a spare zip slider included
• No PU-coated canvas, no plated hardware, no printed leather trim