Carry Guides
Guides, gear insights, and stories for carrying well.
Bags
Tom sews one of the new Luminary prototypes in his design studio. Tom has made a couple of design updates to the original Luminary. Most notably, he's made the right side pocket...
Company
In my garage, Santa Cruz, circa 1983. The other day, someone stopped by the factory just as I was leaving – they are learning to design and make bags, and were hoping...
Bags
We've increased the size of our original Passport Pouch so that it fits passports in protective plastic sleeves, thick passports with many pages, or as many as four passports—without making it too...
Bags
Our new Packing Cubes combine two of our light fabrics—Mesh and Aether—to achieve our goals of a Packing Cube design that doesn’t weigh much, allows one to see the contents of the...
The Aeronaut 45 with its Aeronaut 45 Packing Cubes. Below is a list of questions (and answers) that we're often asked about Packing Cubes. If you have a question that wasn't answered...
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Back in 2015 we made the decision to retire a number of designs including the Field Journal Notebook. And then, in 2016, we announced its return. Now, in 2018, we are once...
Community
Every year, the TOM BIHN Ravelry group knits wearable gifts for our crew. Some years the wearables have been scarves or gloves, and this year it was hats. We know a thing...
Community
When @icarusrex posted his "TOM BIHN Travel Bar" set-up on the Forums, we had an idea: we could ask him to craft a TOM BIHN cocktail. We polled the crew here at...
Company
Much has been said and written about giving gifts that are not things, and about how experiences ultimately mean more to us than stuff. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve observed that more...
Company
We thought it'd be fun to get a photo of Ichiro and Fiona (two of the dogs on staff here at TOM BIHN) wearing festive holiday antlers while lounging on a Camp...
Bags
Watercolor by Dan Bransfield. And the bag in the watercolor? That's the Shop Bag, one of our go-to bags to give as a gift. For the longest time, when folks asked us...
Bags
As with many things in life, deciding whether to use an internal frame—or if you even need one—is subjective: it's based on how you plan to carry your backpack, what you plan...
