Company
25 Years of Service: Consew 206RB
A salute to Tom's Consew 206RB sewing machine: purchased in 1980 and still in continuous use at our Seattle factory. Excerpted from Tom's interview with The Setup: "One of my most obvious...
Carry Guides
Top 5 Most Underrated TOM BIHN Bags, Ranked by You
When it comes to hidden gems, no one knows TOM BIHN bags better than the people who carry them. Earlier this week, we put out a poll on Instagram and asked you to vote on which bags deserve a little more recognition...
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The BIHN Bulletin
Guides, gear insights, and stories for carrying well.
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Bags
Limited Edition Small Cafe Bag Brights
It’s the time of year when we count on family, friends, and cider to brighten up these darker days. And we wanted to share a bit of brightness with all of you. To...
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Bags
The Parental Unit Diaper Bag
The Parental Unit is the result of Tom's resolve to build a "diaper bag" that does more than just assist parents with changing diapers: it'll help organize and mobilize any parent or...
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Company
Design Beyond "Fortuitous Contrivings"
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat...
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Company
The Updated Aeronaut 45 (and a new color)
Ah, fall. The crisp mornings, the bonfire-bright hues adorning every tree, and a perfect opportunity to hit the road or take to the skies for an adventure, large or small. Fall is...
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Bags
Introducing the Aeronaut 30 and Four More Designs
We've been hinting for the last couple of months that we expected five new designs to debut this summer. And you've been amazingly patient with us. Before the reveal, we just wanted...
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Bags
The Fur Test
1000d Cordura® after test We made mittens out of 420 HT ParaPack, 400d Dyneema®/420d nylon, 1050d Ballistic, 1000d Cordura® and 500d Cordura®. We then rubbed each one on a volunteer office canine...
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Company
On Internal Frames and Frame Sheets
I've always tended to keep my designs as simple as possible and eschew adding features just for the sake of, well, just because we could. So, it should be no surprise that...
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Company
The Story behind 420 Denier High Tenacity “Parapack” Pack Fabric
Our 420d HT nylon Classic Parapack in Olive. 420 denier, high tenacity, type 6.6 nylon fabric was originally developed for the military for use in parachute backpacks — the thing on the...
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Design
Accessory Strap Holders: Return of an Icon
Accessory strap holders were originally designed as a means to allow the user to add lash straps to a backpack to secure either items that were oddly shaped (such as ice axes...
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Design
On Shoulder Straps
In the über-cush world we find ourselves in, we may sometimes like to imagine that a heavy backpack can be worn over many hours and many trail miles with no discomfort. As...
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Design
Ballistic vs. Leather Pack Bottoms
For several decades, it seemed that any serious backpack for day hiking or climbing always had a leather bottom. The image of a hiker or climber scrambling over rough terrain, occasionally (or...
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