Bespoke bag gallery

Here's a selection of recent custom bag designs. We hope you find these examples are inspiring.

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A flagship bag for retail

This very special bag needed careful work so the print colour and handle shade matched perfectly. The result: an outstanding success.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:English Heritage
  • Dimensions:30x30+20cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Jute 17x17 Superfine

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  • English Heritage
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Juco retail bags for Kew Gardens

Best-selling juco shopping bags with an exclusive print for the Royal Botanic Gardens. We have made these in a range of exciting colours.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Kew Ferns
  • Dimensions:45x38+15cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco

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  • Kew group bespoke
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A bespoke jute document bag

Many of our clients take one of our standard designs and ask for some changes. Here our P8 laptop bag/document carrier is given an added a shallow gusset and some other extras so it's exactly what the customer needs.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Reps Toolkit
  • Dimensions:38x20+5cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Reps Toolkit
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Some designs for libraries

The basic biscuit-coloured jute bag is fine for most purposes, but many of our clients have found that investing a little extra in dyed materials pays dividends. Here are some eye-catching book bags.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Libraries
  • Dimensions:NA
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Library group bespoke
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A jute bag range for major attraction

We work closely with Cornwall's renowned Eden Project - and their gifted product designers - to create a beautifully-made jute bag offering that sells like hot cakes both instore and online.

  • Lead time:NA
  • Product code:Eden
  • Dimensions:Various
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Jute 13x13 Medium
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Eden Summer Range
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Cotton Aprons and Tea Towels

We have a full manufacturing set-up that can make and print beautifu; cotton made-ups. So when this leading UK charity asked us for aprons and tea-towels to compliment their bags, we were only too happy to oblige.

  • Lead time:12 weeks
  • Product code:Aprons. tea towels and bags
  • Dimensions:-
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 5oz Light

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  • Cancer Research Apron
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A cotton bag for hotel guests

We have supplied this unique newspaper bag to several of the world's leading hotels. It's designed to hang from the guest's door, neatly holding their paper.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (minimum)
  • Product code:Newspaper bag
  • Dimensions:
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 5oz Light

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  • Hotel newspaper bag
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A jute bag for waste awareness

This bag, with its dyed white jute and black print, is a statement in minimalism. It could almost have been designed in Denmark or Sweden!

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Love Food
  • Dimensions:30x30+30cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco
    • Jute 14x15 Fine
    • Jute 17x17 Superfine

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  • Love Food, Hate Waste
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A cotton bag for a major tourist attraction

This bespoke bag had to fit our client's strict requirements of size, style and (above all) price. We came up with this attractive design that sells very well indeed, thank you.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Sealife
  • Dimensions:35x35+10cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 5oz Light

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  • Sea Life
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A juco card wallet for students

This is our eco-friendly take on London's iconic (but plastic) Oyster card holder. Our version is standard credit card size and made of juco with cotton binding.

  • Lead time:8 weeks (approx)
  • Product code:Ticket wallet
  • Dimensions:11x 8.5cm (folded)
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco

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  • Kings wallet bespoke
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Some jute bags for schools

Here are some nice jute bags we have made for schools. These bags both help raise funds and the school's profile.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Schools
  • Dimensions:NA
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Schools group
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A fully-printed bamboo handled jute bag

This impressive  bag was created for a firm of solicitors. The design and print is so unusual that it doesn't look anything like a standard jute bag.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Verisona
  • Dimensions:40x40+22cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Verisona
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A jute sports bag

Here's a classic style reinterpreted by us in eco-friendly jute with a double set of cotton handles. It's strong and attractive - and with its LDPE lamination, perfect for sweaty gym gear!

  • Lead time:8 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Soul Revolver
  • Dimensions:49x22 cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco
    • Jute 13x13 Medium
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Soul Revolver Gym
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A cotton trade show bag

We are keen members of FARMA - the UK National Farmer's Retail and Markets Association. This heavy cotton bag was created for their annual conference and trade show - it's a great market bag!

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Farma
  • Dimensions:40x35+15cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 8oz Medium
    • Cotton 10oz Canvas

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  • FARMA
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A promotional jute bag

A simple jute bag, made more interesting by the use of heavily contrasting dyed materials. A good example of how simple ideas can have the most impact.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Food Northwest
  • Dimensions:35x40+15
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Jute 13x13 Medium
    • Jute 14x15 Fine
    • Jute 17x17 Superfine

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  • Food NW
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Jute bags for charity shops

Barcoded, swing tagged bags for one of Britain's leading charities.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:PDSA
  • Dimensions:-
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • PDSA group
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A juco beach bag

This bag really shows what we can do as manufacturers. Made in contrasting shades of juco, it has an appealing, slouchy style that appeals to hipsters of all ages.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:A juco beach bag
  • Dimensions:51x37 with bottom gusset
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco

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  • Beach bag
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A bag for an awards ceremony

Regular clients Guardian Media Group provided this fun and funky design for the Observer Food Monthly Awards.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:OFM
  • Dimensions:38x38+22cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Observer Food Awards
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A jute range for a post-production house

This luxurious set of jute bags does wonders for one of Soho's leading video production companies. Note the special trim that "closes" the design at the top of the bag.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Golden Square
  • Dimensions:38x38+15
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Golden Square
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A juco "manbag"

Here's a nicely finished unlaminated juco bag for the student market - it's a nice relaxed style which any jock could feel proud to wear.

  • Lead time:8 weeks (min)
  • Product code:UEA
  • Dimensions:35x31+14cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco

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  • UEA
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A cotton bag for an art gallery

We dyed cotton to a very specific shade of grey before printing and stitching these bags for the Saatchi Gallery. It's a very cool bag for a very cool place!

  • Lead time:8 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Saatchi
  • Dimensions:38x38cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 5oz Light

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  • Saatchi Gallery
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A cotton bag with fine art print

If you are printing graphics by David Hockney on a bag for one of the finest opera houses in the world, you have to know what you're doing. Which we do.

  • Lead time:8 weeks
  • Product code:Glyndebourne
  • Dimensions:40x30+15cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 8oz Medium

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  • Glyndebourne 1
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A bleached, stiffened heavy cotton bag

We work with many museums, including the V&A in London. The merchandise for their fashion exhibitions has to have something "extra" - and this superwhite, stiffened cotton bag is just the ticket.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Yamamoto
  • Dimensions:38x42+12
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 10oz Canvas

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  • V&A
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A "picnic" bag for leading bakers

Created for Fudges bakery, this unusual bag was inspired by World War II! We worked hard with the cleint and their creative agency to make this one-off design, with its cunningly-folded flap.

  • Lead time:NA
  • Product code:Fudges
  • Dimensions:30x20+20
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco
    • Jute 13x13 Medium
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Fudges
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A set of colourful bags

This new design features contrasting binding around the seams for an attractive effect. Like all of our bespoke styles, we can make this to any size you like.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Colourful
  • Dimensions:Made to requirement
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco
    • Jute 13x13 Medium
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Piping Bag group
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An interesting colour jute bag

This splendid jute bag looks great because the client thought carefully about it, and chose to be daring instead of dull.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Holy Food
  • Dimensions:35x35+15cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco
    • Jute 13x13 Medium
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Holyfood
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A heavy cotton litter bag

Our clients at Braintree District Council wanted a bag that could fold up neatly or dangle delicately from a car dashboard. "It mustn't be too feminine", they demanded. We came up with this: the perfect bag for a clean-up drive (geddit?!!?).

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Car litter mini bag
  • Dimensions:25x25x10
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 8oz Medium
    • Cotton 10oz Canvas

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  • Car litter bag
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A bespoke cotton kiddie's bag

We made this fun cotton bag for the lucky children staying at a top London hotel. It was a challenging combination of a demanding client and intricate print and construction.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Claridges
  • Dimensions:42x30cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 5oz Light

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  • Brook Street
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A heavy cotton shopping bag

A capacious bag for fresh produce, with a beautiful fresh look and soft feel. Ideal for our forward-looking farm shop clients.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Crockford Farm
  • Dimensions:40x35+15cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 8oz Medium
    • Cotton 10oz Canvas
    • Cotton 12oz Heavy Canvas

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  • Crockford
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Some small cotton pouches

Here are some examples of the many wee cotton drawstring bags we have made. These simple bags make excellent packaging for small items such as dried herbs or toys.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Cotton pouches
  • Dimensions:To order
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Cotton 5oz Light

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  • Pouches
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A promotional juco mini bag

We created this sweet bag  - complete with an outer sleeve to hold an A5 brochure - for our marketing mailouts. People liked it so much that they ordered their own versions for themselves. It's an unusual, simple and very useful design that could easily be adapted for other purposes.

  • Lead time:Special order
  • Product code:Bags of Ideas
  • Dimensions:19x24cx8cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco

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  • Bags of Ideas
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A promotional jute bag for beer

When Thai beer Chang launched in the UK, we created this bag for the importers. Note the metallic gold print - a very nice touch for a very nice drink.

  • Lead time:6 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Chang
  • Dimensions:22x24+13
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco
    • Jute 13x13 Medium
    • Jute 14x15 Fine

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  • Chang Beer
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Spectacular promotional jute bags

We just love these jute trade fair bags. Only Canby can give you such vibrant colour, sharp print, superb finish and attention to detail.

  • Lead time:8 weeks (min)
  • Product code:Harlequin
  • Dimensions:35x32+15cm
  • Available in the following material grades:
    • Juco
    • Jute 13x13 Medium
    • Jute 14x15 Fine
    • Jute 17x17 Superfine

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  • Harlequin Group

Customer testimonials

Our stand personnel are under strict instructions not to give away a bag unless a customer buys more than one book or buys a large textbook. The feedback was very positive. Customers were even tempted to buy a second book because they wanted one of the ‘nice’ bags!

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